2021 Wrap Up

Books I Read in 2021

Classics

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, translated by Donald Keene

The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse 

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Romance

Confess by Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (2 times)

Find Me by André Aciman

Lie with Me by Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Wait For It by Mariana Zapata

The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata

The Coppersmith Farmhouse by Devney Perry

Passage West by Ruth Ryan Langan

Memoir

Night Driving: A Story of Faith in the Dark by Addie Zierman

Novella/Short Story

Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Louise Heal Kawai 

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman, translated by  

Alice Menzies

Literary Fiction

Mysterious Skin by Scott Heim

Bone by Fae Myenne Ng

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The Course of Love by Alain de Botton

Historical Fiction

Sayonara by James A. Michener

All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Murayama

Thriller

You by Caroline Kepnes

Contemporary Fiction

A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron

Nonfiction

True Crime Stories: A Prequel by Jack Rosewood

Titanic: The Story About The Unsinkable Ship by Henry Freeman

The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live by Meik Wiking

Children's Literature

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

Gregor the Overlander Series by Suzanne Collins

Science Fiction

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky