This year started out so strong for reading. I read 44 books in the first half of the year and I really thought I was going to make it to 100. Alas, it was, once again, not meant to be. I read 62 books in total this year. Between vision therapy, changing jobs, getting a kitten, and preparing for my Spanish exam, reading got cut for time and energy in the latter half of the year. Still, I can’t be upset. I read many good books and, thanks to vision therapy, reading is getting physically easier (who knew that was even an option?!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to see what I read in previous years, you can click the books of the year tag<\/a> to see all my past annual book posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to be book friends all year, you can join me on StoryGraph<\/a>! My username is linzomatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now: the list of books I read in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year started out so strong for reading. I read 44 books in the first half of the year and I really thought I was going to make it to 100. Alas, it was, once again, not meant to be. I read 62 books in total this year. 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Eason<\/td><\/tr> 2\/1<\/td> Psychology of Time Travel<\/td> Kate Mascarenhas<\/td><\/tr> 2\/6<\/td> The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls<\/td> Anissa Gray<\/td><\/tr> 2\/10<\/td> Mexican Gothic<\/td> Silvia Moreno-Garcia<\/td><\/tr> 2\/14<\/td> Nickel Boys<\/td> Colson Whitehead<\/td><\/tr> 2\/19<\/td> Winter’s Orbit<\/td> Evarina Maxwell<\/td><\/tr> 2\/20<\/td> Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone<\/td> Sarah Jaffe<\/td><\/tr> 2\/23<\/td> The Color of Air<\/td> Gail Tsukiyama<\/td><\/tr> 2\/25<\/td> Witchmark<\/td> C. L. Polk<\/td><\/tr> 2\/27<\/td> Stormsong<\/td> C. L. Polk<\/td><\/tr> 3\/2<\/td> Soulstar<\/td> C. L. Polk<\/td><\/tr> 3\/12<\/td> Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents<\/td> Isabel Wilkerson<\/td><\/tr> 3\/19<\/td> The Poppy War<\/td> R. F. Kuang<\/td><\/tr> 3\/25<\/td> Hollow Kingdom<\/td> Kira Jane Buxton<\/td><\/tr> 3\/30<\/td> Mediocre: The dangerous legacy of white male America<\/td> Ijeoma Oluo<\/td><\/tr> 4\/2<\/td> The Flamethowers<\/td> Rachel Kushner<\/td><\/tr> 4\/6<\/td> Vagabundos<\/td> Hao Jingfang<\/td><\/tr> 4\/10<\/td> We Ride Upon Sticks<\/td> Quan Barry<\/td><\/tr> 4\/16<\/td> How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict<\/td> Nina Jankowicz<\/td><\/tr> 4\/19<\/td> My Year Abroad<\/td> Chang-Rae Lee<\/td><\/tr> 4\/24<\/td> Gonzlez and Daughter Trucking Co.: A Road Novel with Literary License<\/td> Mar\u00eda Amparo Escand\u00f3n<\/td><\/tr> 4\/30<\/td> The Bright and Breaking Sea<\/td> Chloe Neill<\/td><\/tr> 5\/3<\/td> Fugitive Telemetry<\/td> Martha Wells<\/td><\/tr> 5\/8<\/td> Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age<\/td> Donna Zuckerberg<\/td><\/tr> 5\/13<\/td> The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue<\/td> V. E. Schwab<\/td><\/tr> 5\/16<\/td> Leave the World Behind<\/td> Rumaan Alam<\/td><\/tr> 5\/19<\/td> The Galaxy, and the Ground Within<\/td> Becky Chambers<\/td><\/tr> 5\/26<\/td> A Discovery of Witches<\/td> Deborah Harkness<\/td><\/tr> 5\/31<\/td> Shadow of Night<\/td> Deborah Harkness<\/td><\/tr> 6\/4<\/td> The Book of Life<\/td> Deborah Harkness<\/td><\/tr> 6\/10<\/td> Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning<\/td> Cathy Park Hong<\/td><\/tr> 6\/10<\/td> Los desesperados<\/td> Joselo Rangel<\/td><\/tr> 6\/12<\/td> The Disaster Tourist<\/td> Yun Ko-Eun<\/td><\/tr> 6\/14<\/td> Deathless<\/td> Catherynne Valente<\/td><\/tr> 6\/21<\/td> The Unbroken<\/td> C. L. Clark<\/td><\/tr> 6\/29<\/td> With Teeth: A Novel<\/td> Kristen Arnett<\/td><\/tr> 7\/16<\/td> Master of Djinn<\/td> P. Dj\u00e8l\u00ed Clark<\/td><\/tr> 7\/23<\/td> The Actual Star<\/td> Monica Byrne<\/td><\/tr> 7\/24<\/td> Finna<\/td> Nino Cipri<\/td><\/tr> 8\/16<\/td> The Outside<\/td> Ada Hoffman<\/td><\/tr> 8\/21<\/td> Crying in H Mart: A Memoir<\/td> Michelle Zauner<\/td><\/tr> 8\/30<\/td> The World Gives Way<\/td> Marissa Levien<\/td><\/tr> 9\/8<\/td> The Chosen and the Beautiful<\/td> Nghi Vo<\/td><\/tr> 9\/12<\/td> The Season: A Social History of the Debutante<\/td> Kristen Richardson<\/td><\/tr> 9\/20<\/td> Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women<\/td> Lyz Lenz<\/td><\/tr> 9\/22<\/td> The Fallen<\/td> Ada Hoffman<\/td><\/tr> 10\/4<\/td> Arcana, ciudad escalera<\/td> Tamara Romero<\/td><\/tr> 10\/6<\/td> A Psalm for the Wild Built<\/td> Becky Chambers<\/td><\/tr> 10\/9<\/td> A Spindle Splintered<\/td> Alix E. 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