Reading List 2021

Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

I would recommend the bolded titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the italicized titles but probably wouldn't read them again.

 Read in 2021:

1. American Royals, by Katharine McGee

1.1.* Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership, by Ed Gordon

1.2.* Small Island, by Andrea Levy

2. Ben and Me: A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos, by Robert Lawson

3. Majesty, by Katharine McGee

3.1.* The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue, by Karina Yan Glaser

4. The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi

5. Once on This Island, by Gloria Whelan

6. Peter and the Starcatchers, by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

7. Losers Bracket, by Chris Crutcher

8. Girl Meets Boy, edited by Kelly Milner Halls

9. When I Was White, by Sarah Valentine

10. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, by Samantha Irby

11. Gold Rush Girl, by Avi

12. The List of Things That Will Not Change, by Rebecca Stead

13. Sold on a Monday, by Kristina McMorris

[Cell, by Stephen King]

13.1.* Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

14. Black Widows, by Cate Quinn

15. The Queen's Weapons, by Anne Bishop

16. A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult

17. All He Knew, by Helen Frost

18. Yellow Wife, by Sadeqa Johnson

19. The Book of Two Ways, by Jodi Picoult

20. Hostage, by Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith

[All-of-a-Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor]

[Native Tongue, by Suzette Haden Elgin]

[First Test, by Tamora Pierce]

21. The Goldfish Boy, by Lisa Thompson

21.3.* The War Garden Victorious, by Charles Lathrop Pack

[The Gate to Women's Country, by Sheri S. Tepper]

22. Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley

23. The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune

24. You Should See Me in a Crown, by Leah Johnson

25. The Truce, by Angie Smibert
26. You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism, by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

27. The Once and Future Witches, by Alix E. Harrow

27. Dragons in a Bag, by Zetta Elliott

28. Flying the Dragon, by Natalie Dias Lorenzi

29. The Push, by Ashley Audrain 

30. Show Me a Sign, by Ann Clare LeZotte

31. Ya-Yas in Bloom, by Rebecca Wells 

[Seven Stones to Stand or Fall, by Diana Gabaldon]

32. For Black Girls Like Me, by Mariama J. Lockington

33. Finding Orion, by John David Anderson

[Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast, by Jane Yolen] 

34. Summer of a Thousand Pies, by Margaret Dilloway

35. I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé, by Michael Arceneaux

36. Some Places More Than Others, by Renee Watson

[The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley]
36.1.* Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker, by Jennifer Chiaverini
37. Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul

38. The Book of Lost Friends, by Lisa Wingate

39.1.* Morning by Morning: How We Homeschooled Our African-American Sons to the Ivy League, by Paula Penn-Nabrit
40. Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home, by Rhonda Barfield

41. The Seed Keeper, by Diane Wilson

42. Riot, by Walter Dean Myers

43. Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge

44. The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling, by Quinn Cummings

45. The Root Cellar, by Janet Lunn 

46. What Momma Left Me, by Renee Watson

47. Homeschoolers' Success Stories: 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact that Homeschooling Has Made on Their Lives, by Linda Dobson

47.1.* Catholic Education: Homeward Bound, by Kimberly Hahn and Mary Hasson

48. Echo Mountain, by Lauren Wolk

49. Homeschooling: A Family's Journey, by Gregory and Martine Millman

50. Vera, by Carol Edgarian

51. Almost There and Almost Not, by Linda Urban

52. Later, by Stephen King

53. When I Found You, by Catherine Ryan Hyde

54. The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn

55. The Grace Year, by Kim Liggett

56. Some Other Now, by Sarah Everett

57. Watch Us Rise, by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan

58. Losers and Winners, by Frances A. Miller

[A Girl of the Limberlost, by Gene Stratton-Porter]

[The Dark Is Rising, by Susan Cooper]

[Marilla of Green Gables, by Sarah McCoy]

59. The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
60. The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief, by Liz Tichenor

[Terrier, by Tamora Pierce]

61. Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture, edited by Gabriel Thompson

[First Test, by Tamora Pierce]

62. Magic Lessons: Celebratory and Cautionary Tales about Life as a (Single, Gay, Transracially Adoptive) Dad, by Joseph Sadusky

63. Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo

64. The Vegetarian, by Han Kang

64.1.* Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga

65. Stepping Stones, by Lucy Knisley

66. Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor

67. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton

68. Dead Dead Girls, by Nekesa Afia 

69. The Anvil of the World, by Kage Baker

70. Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust, by Loic Dauvillier, Marc Lizano, and Greg Salsedo

71. Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World, by Ben Hewitt

71.1.* A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers

72. LaGuardia, by Nnedi Okorafor
73. Sorcery & Cecilia, or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot, by Patricia C. Wrede

74. Felix Yz, by Lisa Bunker

75. The Jade Peony, by Wayson Choy

76. Across the Great Barrier, by Patricia C. Wrede

77. Once Upon a Curse, by Peter S. Beagle, Nancy Kress, Patricia C. Wrede, Cindy Lynn Speer, Lucy A. Snyder, Siobhan Carroll, Imogen Howson, and Anna Kashina 

78. Redfield Farm, by Judith Redline Coopey

79. The Year They Burned the Books, by Nancy Garden

80. The Women in the Walls, by Amy Lukavics

81. Front Desk, by Kelly Yang

82. Survival of the Thickest, by Michelle Buteau

83. Murder Is Bad Manners, by Robin Stevens

84. Billy Summers, by Stephen King

85. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking, by T. Kingfisher

[The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken]

86. Good Seeds: A Menominee Indian Food Memoir, by Thomas Pecore Weso

87. The Food of a Younger Land, by Mark Kurlansky

88. When We Were Magic, by Sarah Gailey

89. Growing Up in the Care of Strangers: the Experiences, Insights, and Recommendations of Eleven Former Foster Kids, edited by Waln K. Brown and John R. Seita

90. Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe

91. Lily's House, by Cassandra Parkin

92. The Purple Swamp Hen, by Penelope Lively

93. Let's Talk about Love, by Claire Kann

94. Willow Run, by Patricia Reilly Giff

95. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, by Diana Gabaldon

96. Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces, by Valerie I. Harrison and Kathryn Peach D'Angelo

97. This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor, by Adam Kay

98. I Will Teach You to Be Rich, by Ramit Sethi

99. Kilmeny of the Orchard, by L.M. Montgomery

100. The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, volume II, by Diana Wynne Jones

101. Till I Kissed You, by Linda McGinnis 

102. We Need to Talk about Kevin, by Lionel Shriver

[Kitchen Table Wisdom, by Rachel Naomi Remen]

103. Are You Enjoying?, by Mira Sethi
104. Marshmallow & Jordan, by Alina Chau

105. Stand Up, Yumi Chung!, by Jessica Kim

106. Worse Than Weird, by Jody J. Little 

107. Kitchen Princess, by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi
108. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers, by Tom Standage

109. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado Perez

110. The Future of Another Timeline, by Annalee Newitz
111. Maxine Waters, by Brenda Jones and Krishan Trotman

*I started reading these fractional selections, but couldn't finish (or haven't yet). If I do finish one, it will get its own whole-numbered slot later in the list. If not, it will languish in the interstitial.

[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]

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