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Friday

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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