The Christmas decorations are being packed away, the New Year has rung in, and now: tis the season to look back at favorite books of the year! I've seen several of you post your favorites, and I love it! I copied and pasted a visual of my full list from Goodreads this year, which I will put below. Let me know if you've read any of the same ones and what you thought!
The categories are a little tweaked from past years, but they reflect what I've been reading most recently. I'm making more of an effort to read older books that have stood the test of time, and it seems both weird and unfair to compare those to the hot new books, so I broke old and new into separate categories. And my kids are at a great read aloud chapter book age, so there are enough middle grades on here to give that category it's own space. (I also want to note that I quit early if a book is not worthwhile in some way, so I would give a thumbs up to most all of the books on my finished list.) Without further ado....
Top Six Favorite Backlist Fiction:
"Silence" by Shusaku Endo
"Death Comes for the Archbishop" by Willa Cather
"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
"And Then there were None" by Agatha Christie
"The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
"Our Souls at Night" by Kent Haruf
Top Six New (published last year or two) Fiction:
"A Swim in the Pond in the Rain" by George Saunders ---> I don't usually name a top number one favorite out of them all, because Enneagram 9, but this was my absolute favorite of the year.
"Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi
"Klara and the Sun" by Kazuo Ishiguro
"Piranesi" by Susanne Clarke
"Cloud Cuckoo Land" by Anthony Doerr
"The Lincoln Highway" by Amor Towles (though be careful of that ending, it might make you throw the book across the room)
Top 5 Non Fiction I'm Still Thinking About:
"Nicea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology" by Lewis Ayres
"Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art" by James Nestor
"None Like Him" by Jen Wilkin
"Gentle and Lowly" by Dane Ortlund
"12 Ways Your Phone is Changing You" by Tony Reinke
Top 5 Middle Grade:
"The Magician's Nephew" and "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis
"The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
"The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown
"On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness" by Andrew Peterson
Those are my favorites of the year - let me know what book(s) you loved in 2021!
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