My 2021 reading list -- Finished 76 out of 50!

 

Writers are readers! One of my personal goals for 2021 was to read 50 books. I ended up reading 76, and I'm halfway through another, as the year comes to a close. (Perhaps this was one silver lining that came with so much social distancing.)

Here's the complete list of titles I read this year. This roster does not include books I wrote or edited, children's books I read (again and again), the Bible, devotionals, Bible studies, cookbooks, reference books, magazines, newspapers, etc. 

It's just my full-length, cover-to-cover reads for the past year. 

 

Inclusion in this list does not necessarily imply recommendation or endorsement. It only indicates completion of each read.

1. A Church Called Tov, Scot McKnight & Laura Barringer
2. A Matter of Life and Death, Philip Margolin
3. A Rip in Heaven, Jeanine Cummins
4. A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins
5. American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
6. Before She Disappeared, Lisa Gardner
7. Behind Closed Doors, B.A. Paris
8. Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
9. Dark Horses, Susan Mihalic
10. Did I Say You Could Go, Melanie Gideon
11. Don’t Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table, Louie Giglio
12. Hell of a Book: A Novel, Jason Mott
13. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance
14. Home Front, Kristin Hannah
15. How to Fight Racism, Jemar Tisby
16. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, Austin Channing Brown
17. If I Run, Terri Blackstock
18. If You Tell, Gregg Olsen
19. In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware
20. Into the Water, Paula Hawkins
21. Jesus and John Wayne, Kristin Kobes Du Mez
22. Last Girl Standing, Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush
23. Liar, Liar, Lisa Jackson
24. Love Does, Bob Goff
25. Miriam: A Treasures of the Nile Novel, Mesu Andrews
26. My Dear Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
27. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult
28. One by One, Ruth Ware
29. One Last Breath, Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush
30. Pieces of Her, Karin Slaughter
31. Pretty Little Wife, Darby Kane
32. Prey Tell, Tiffany Bluhm
33. Reading While Black, Esau McCaulley
34. Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Aimee Byrd
35. Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church, Diane Langberg
36. Secrets to the Grave, Tami Hoag
37. Sisters Trilogy (The Sea Glass Sisters, The Tidewater Sisters, The Sandcastle Sister), Lisa Wingate
38. Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir, Ashley C. Ford
39. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
40. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, James W. Loewen
41. The Black Book, James Patterson
42. The Book of Lost Names, Kristin Harmel
43. The Coming Race Wars: A Cry for Justice, from Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, William Pannell
44. The Crooked Branch, Jeanine Cummins
45. The Family of Jesus, Karen Kingsbury
46. The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell
47. The Fortunate Ones, Ed Tarkington
48. The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah
49. The Guest List, Lucy Foley
50. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
51. The House of Deep Water, Jeni McFarland
52. The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
53. The Invisible Girl, Lisa Jewell
54. The Justice Game, Randy Singer
55. The Last Bookshop in London, Madeline Martin
56. The Orphan’s Tale, Pam Jenoff
57. The Other Black Girl, Zakiya Dalila Harris
58. The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities, Kate Bowler
59. The Red Book, James Patterson
60. The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides
61. The Summer House, James Patterson
62. The Talented Miss Farwell, Emily Gray Tedrowe
63. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
64. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
65. The Woman in the Window, A.J. Finn
66. The Woman with the Blue Star, Pam Jenoff
67. Tranquility Falls, Davis Bunn
68. True Colors, Kristin Hannah
69. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
70. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, Emmanuel Acho
71. Watching You, Lisa Jewell
72. We Were the Lucky Ones, Georgia Hunter
73. When No One Is Watching, Alyssa Cole
74. When the Stars Go Dark, Paula McLain
75. When You See Me, Lisa Gardner
76. You Betrayed Me, Lisa Jackson

 Books are listed alphabetically (by title) and unsorted (by genre). Titles are hyperlinked to Amazon. (Disclaimer: I'm an Amazon Affiliate, so I may earn a very small commission from orders placed through links on my sites.)

Have you also read any of these books? What were your thoughts? What books did you read in 2021? Which were your favorites? 

And what titles do you recommend for 2022?

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