Favorite Books of 2021

✨FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021✨

Here we go, friends! Of the 107 books I read in 2021, I’ve narrowed down my favorites to ten (plus five honorable mentions). Click through the images above to see the winners (shown in no particular order) 🤩💓.

While full reviews for all of these books can be found on my page, here is a quick synopsis for each of my top ten:

✨How To Stop Time: From the author of The Midnight Library, this fantastical story takes place over centuries as it follows a man who has a unique medical condition that prevents him from aging at a normal rate.

✨Homegoing: A beautiful multi-generational saga tracing the lineage of two fictional Ghanaian sisters across two centuries and continents.

✨Station Eleven: a masterful post-apocalyptic novel that explores the human condition after the collapse of modern society.

✨Cultish: An incredible work of nonfiction about how language helps to create and sustain modern-day cults and other cult-like groups.

✨Hamnet: A heart-wrenching historical fiction book that recounts the family drama and tragedy that inspired Shakespeare’s famous place, Hamlet.

✨The Arsonists’ City: A fantastic historical fiction story about love, loss, family and the legacy of war in the Middle East.

✨The World Gives Way: A sci-fi debut about those who survived the apocalypse by boarding a spaceship en route to another planet… however, their world is thrown into chaos when an unrepairable crack is discovered in the ship.

✨Empire of Pain: A masterpiece of investigative journalism that documents three generations of the Sackler family, their company Purdue Pharma and their drug that effectively started the opioid crisis, OxyContin.

✨Against The Loveless World: A stunning historical fiction narrative that tells the story of a strong-willed Palestinian woman who is incarcerated in a high-tech Israeli prison.

✨Project Hail Mary: An unforgettable space adventure story by the author of The Martian in which a high school science teacher wakes up aboard a spaceship with amnesia and must fulfill his mission to save earth.