The full 2021 book list

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1. Sorceror to the Crown by Zen Cho, 4.5
2. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, 5
3. An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard, 5
4. The House on the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune, 5
5. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCullough, 5
6. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett, 5
7. The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago, 3
8. Enchanted Ivy by Sarah Beth Durst, 3.5
9. Monkey by by Wu Cheng'en, translated by Arthur Waley, 3.5
10. The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 4
11. March by Geraldine Brooks, 5
12. Star Daughter by Shveta Shakrar, 4.5
13. I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett, 4.5
14. Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro, 4
15. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank, 3
16. How to Catch a Queen by Alyssa Cole, 4
17. The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal, 4
18. Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson, 4.5
19. Mistletoe and Mr. Right by Sarah Morganthaler, 3.5
20. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, 5
21. Thud! by Terry Pratchett, 5
22. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede, 4
23. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard, 4
24. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett, 3.5
25. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness, 4
26. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, 4.5
27. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland, 4
28. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, 4.5
29. The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty, 4.5
30. Or, What You Will by Jo Walton, 4
31. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London, 5
32. The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty, 5
33. A Queen from the North by Racheline Maltese and Erin McRae, 4
34. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente, 4
35. Myths & Mortals by Charlie N. Holmberg, 3
36. Siege & Sacrifice by Charlie N. Holmberg, 3.5
37. The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan, 5
38. From Blood and Ash by Jennifer L. Armentrout, 2.5
39. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren, 3
40. After the Wedding by Courtney Milan, 4.5
41. Echoes of Betrayal by Elizabeth Moon, 3.5
42. Limits of Power by Elizabeth Moon, 3.5
43. Crown of Renewal by Elizabeth Moon, 2.5
44. How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North, 4
45. The Sword and the Stone by T.H. White, 4
46. Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, 2.5
47. The Alchemist of Souls by Anne Lyle, 3.5
48. The Stormbringer by Isabel Cooper, 3.5
49. All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, 5
50. Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder from Childhood Through Adulthood by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey, 4
52. Bloodline by Claudia Gray, 4
53. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake by Anna Quindlen, 3
51. The Disappeared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, 4.5
54. In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire, 3.5
55. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamad, 5
56. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny, 4
57. The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey, 4
58. Pax by Sara Pennypacker, 3.5
59. The Retrieval Artist by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, 4
60. Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, 5
61. Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Peterson, 3.5
62. Ghost Talkers by Mary Robinette Kowal, 5
63. The Will and the Wilds by Charlie N. Holmberg, 4
64. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 3
65. Trickster Makes this World by Lewis Hyde, 4
66. Westside by W. M. Akers, 4.5
67. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosch, 5
68. Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch, 5
69. Brother's Ruin by Emma Newman, 3
70. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North, 5
71. The Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas, 3.5
72. The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez, 3
73. The Doctor's Discretion by E.E. Ottoman, 4
74. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, trans. by Paulette Moller, 2.5
75. Elements of Surprise by Vera Tobin, 3
76. The Grift by Debra Ginsberg, 4.5
77. The Campaign for Domestic Happiness by Isabella Beeton, 4
78. Intrigues by Mercedes Lackey, 3.5
79. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, 4.5
80. Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—Without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie, 3.5
81. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, 4.5
82. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker by Leanna Renee Hieber, 2
83. Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti by Tom Watson, 4
84. So Forward by Mina V. Esguerra, 2.5
85. Putting the Science in Science Fiction by Dan Koboldt, 4
86. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2.5
87. Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher, 5
88. Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood, 5
89. The Fall of Carthage/The Punic Wars? by Adrian Goldsworthy, 3
90. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, 4
91. Changes by Mercedes Lackey, 3.5
92. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer, 4
93. Ambush or Adore by Gail Carriger, 4
94. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, 5
95. Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein, 3.5
96. The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault, 4
97. Defy or Defend by Gail Carriger, 4
98. Redoubt by Mercedes Lackey, 3
99. Bastion by Mercedes Lackey, 3
100. The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman, 4
101. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik, 5
102. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune, 4.5
103. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, 2.5
104. Star Mother by Charlie N. Holmberg, 3
105. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake by Alexis Hall, 5
106. Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots, 5
107. The Silence of Bones by June Hur, 4
108. Blackout by Connie Willis, 3.5
109. All Clear by Connie Willis, 3.5
110. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon, 3.5
111. Innate Magic by Shannon Fay, 3.5
112. Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart, 2.5
113. Daughter of Empire by Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts, 5
114. The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders, 5
115. Faux Ho Ho by ‘Nathan Burgoine, 3.5
116. Briar Girls by Rebecca Kim Wells, 4
117. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, 3
118. Polaris Rising by Jessie Mihalik, 3.5
119. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton, 3.5
120. Across the Green Grass Field by Seanan McGuire, 3.5
121. Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kalsuke, 5
122. All Systems Red by Martha Wells, 4.5
123. The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison, 4.5
124. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein, 5
125. Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire, 4