Books Read in 2021
Literary Fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Magical Language of Others - E.J. Koh
Eve out of Her Ruins - Ananda Devi, Jeffrey Zuckerman (Translator)
Peach - Emma Glass
Dear Haiti, Love Alaine - Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite
Empty Set - Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
Miss Iceland - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Brian FitzGibbon (Translator)
Normal People - by Sally Rooney
Poetry
Space Struck - Paige Lewis
The Unmistakable Presence of Absent Humans - K Srilata
R E D Chase Berggrun
Short Stories (Collections)
The Bridegroom - Ha Jin
Ocean of Words - Ha Jin
The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
Where the Wild Ladies Are - Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translator)
Short Stories
Mother Tongues - Theodora Bishop
At the Clinic - Sally Rooney
Janelle Asked to the Bedroom - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Zikora: A Short Story - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Woman Dies - Aoko Matsuda, Polly Barton (Translator)
Planting - Aoko Matsuda, Angus Turvill (Translator)
A Clean Marriage - Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Faith - Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
Literary Nonfiction
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays - Chelsea Hodson
On Lighthouses - Jazmina Barrera, Christina MacSweeney (Translator)
Nonfiction
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast - Jonathan Safran Foer
Dear Ijeawele: A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Francesc Miralles, Heather Cleary (Translator)