Ep 147: Best Books of the Year 2021
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My real life book club is BACK with our annual conversation about the Best Books of the Year!
Please welcome my friends Yasmin Dunn and Stephanie Newman-Smith back to the show for our fourth annual Best Books of the Year episode.
You can catch our past episodes here:
Book Club’s Best Books of the Year 2020
Book Club’s Best Books of the Year 2019
Book Club’s Best Books of the Year 2018 was recorded as part of my show Smartest Person in the Room.
Please note that while I love recording this conversation every year, I wait until the final days of the calendar year to make my OFFICIAL best books of the year list. I’ll post that online and on social media.
After a chat about what our reading life looked like in 2021, we got down to it:
Stephanie’s Best Books of the Year
Detransition Baby by Tori Peters
A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
Agatha of Little Neon by Claire Luchette
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Yasmin’s Best Books of the Year
High Conflict by Amanda Ripley
The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
The Turnout by Megan Abbott
Cultish by Amanda Montell
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Believing by Anita Hill
Laura’s Best Books of the Year
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
Good Neighbors by Sarah Langan
Who is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews
Breath by James Nester
Also mentioned…
Misery by Stephen King
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollet
Billy Summers by Stephen King
Dirt by Mary Marantz
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