The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien
Lost in Translation – Eva Hoffman
Prelude to Bruise — Saeed Jones
Books Read in 2021
1 One Hundred Years of Solitude — Gabriel García Márquez
2 The Parable of the Sower — Octavia Butler
3 Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie — Maya Angelou
4 One Life –– Megan Rapinoe
5 On the Bus with Rosa Parks — Rita Dove
6 The Haunting of Hill House — Shirley Jackson
7 Dark Matter — Blake Crouch
8 The Midnight Library — Matt Haig
9 An American Sunrise — Joy Harjo
10 Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic — David Quammen
11 Just Us: An American Conversation — Claudia Rankine
12 Blankets — Craig Thompson
13 Summertime Fine — Jason B. Crawford
14 Magical Negro — Morgan Parker
15 OBIT — Victoria Chang
16 Lararium — Ray Ball
17 White Teeth — Zadie Smith
18 A Little Devil in America — Hanif Abdurraqib
19 Space Struck — Paige Lewis
20 The Plague — Albert Camus
21 At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails — Sarah Bakewell
22 Transmutation — Alex DiFrancesco
23 The Starless Sea — Erin Morgenstern
24 Pilgrim Bell — Kaveh Akbar
25 The Turn of the Screw — Henry James
26 Olive the Lionheart — Brad Ricca
27 The Silent Companions — Laura Purcell
28 We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson
29 Rebecca — Daphne du Maurier
30 Homie — Danez Smith
31 Finna — Nate Marshall
32 The Fellowship of the Ring — J.R.R. Tolkien
33 The Overstory — Richard Powers
Books Read in 2020
1 Soft Targets — Deborah Landau
2 There There — Tommy Orange
3 The Water Dancer — Ta-Nehisi Coates
4 The Cowherd’s Son — Rajiv Mohabir
5 The Beekeeper of Aleppo — Christy Lefteri
6 Book of Hours — Kevin Young
7 If Beale Street Could Talk — James Baldwin
8 Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation — Damian Duffy
9 The Weight of Ink — Rachel Kadish
10 Everything Is Flammable — Gabrielle Bell
11 Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel
12 Unemployment Insurance — Brendan Joyce
13 The Fortieth Day — Kazim Ali
14 The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov
15 The Fire Next Time — James Baldwin
16 Dothead — Amit Majmudar
17 Night Sky with Exit Wounds — Ocean Vuong
18 The Great Believers — Rebecca Makkai
19 Whereas — Layli Long Soldier
20 How to Be an Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi
21 The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History — John M. Barry
22 Circe — Madeline Miller
23 Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey — Ozge Samanci
24 Hibernation Highway — J. David
25 The Odyssey — Homer
26 ZOETROPE — Kevin Latimer
27 I Was Their American Dream — Malaka Gharib
28 Shrapnel Maps — Philip Metres
29 Uprooted — Naomi Novik
30 On Tyranny: Twenty Lesson from the Twentieth Century — Timothy Snyder
31 Deaf Republic — Ilya Kaminsky
32 Beloved — Toni Morrison
33 The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
34 Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward
35 The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank
36 Falter: Has the Human Race Begun to Play Itself Out? — Bill McKibben
37 The Tradition — Jericho Brown
38 La Belle Sauvage — Philip Pullman
39 The Wretched of the Earth — Frantz Fanon
40 A Fortune for Your Disaster — Hanif Abdurraqib
41 A Promised Land — Barack Obama
42 The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
43 On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
44 Electric Arches — Eve L. Ewing
45 Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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