Book List for 2021
The Christmas Egg, by Mary Kelly
Less, by Andrew Sean Greer
Dead in the Water, by Carola Dunn
The Nest, by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
Wishful Drinking, by Carrie Fisher
Maigret’s Christmas, by Georges Simenon
The Accidental Tourist, by Anne Tyler
Girl Sleuth, by Melanie Rehak
The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, by Peter Guardino
Actress, by Anne Enright
Maigret and the Madwoman, by Georges Simenon
All This Marvelous Potential, by Matthew Algeo
Anything is Possible, by Elizabeth Strout
Christmas at the Mysterious Bookshop, edt. Otto Penzler
The Mighty Oak, by Jeff Bens
Mister Monkey, by Francine Prose
Stay, by Catherine Hyde Ryan
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
The Hole, by Hiroko Oyamada
When the Nines Roll Over, by David Benioff
Standard Deviation, by Katherine Heiny
History of Present Complaint, by HLR
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola
Styx and Stones, by Carola Dunn
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, edt. Jay Rubin
Memoirs of a Nail Tech, by Tanisha Morgan
Nail Salons, by Claudette Varnado
Polished: Filing Away at Life’s Truths, by Tina Panariello
Dirtbag Anthropology, by Kate Willett
Got My Nails Did, by Lan Ton
Transient Desires, by Donna Leon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Maigret’s Mistake, by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Man on the Bench, by Georges Simenon
Rattle His Bones, by Carola Dunn
Sleeping Dogs Lie, by Samantha Downing
Sorcerers of Majipoor, by Robert Silverberg
The Boy’s Club, by Erica Katz
To Davy Jones Below, by Carola Dunn
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power, by Pekka Hamalainen
Maigret’s First Case, by Georges Simenon
Minor Feelings, by Kathy Park Hong
Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee
Maigret and the Saturday Caller, by Georges Simenon
Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
Convenience Store Woman, by Sayaka Murata
Writing the Other: A Practical Approach, by Nisi Shawl & Cynthia Ward
The Thief Knot, by Kate Milford
Maigret and the Reluctant Witness, by Georges Simenon
The Witches, by Stacy Schiff
Creatures, by Crissy van Meter
The Obelisk Gate, by N.K. Jemisin
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Memory Police, by Yoko Ogawa
Passing, by Nella Larsen
Maigret Mystified, by Georges Simenon
Educated, by Tara Westover
Vesper Flights, by Helen Macdonald
The Case of the Murdered Muckracker, by Carola Dunn
The Dog Sitter, by J. Archer Avary
The Dopeman’s Wife, by JaQuavis Coleman
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra Vogel
All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot
Maigret Meets a Milord, by Georges Simenon
The Women in the Castle, by Jessica Shattuck
A Time of Changes, by Robert Silverberg
The Decagon House Murders, by Yukito Ayatsuji
The Blood within the Stone, by T.R. Thompson
Maigret Takes a Room, by Georges Simenon
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley
The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis, by Elizabeth Letts
The Bride of the Sea, by Eman Quotah
Misletoe and Murder, by Carola Dunn
Paranoid, by Lisa Jackson
The Forked Path, by T.R. Thompson
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo
The Hanged Man of St. Pholien, by Georges Simenon
The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties that Helped Create Modern China, by Jonathan Kaufman
The Marriage Lie, by Kimberly Belle
The Wall, by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Project Pendulum, by Robert Silverberg
The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green
The Doctor of Aleppo, by Dan Mayland
Picture, by Lillian Ross
The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune
The Tragedy of Liberation, by Frank Dikötter
Prodigal, An American Parable, by Blake Johnson
Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
The God Equation, by Michio Kaku
Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo
Die Laughing, by Carola Dunn
The Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum
Sweet William, by John Hawkes
The Blue Room, by Georges Simenon
The Great Unknown, by Peg Kingman
The Lady Killer, by Masako Togawa
Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters, by Georges Simenon
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram Kendi
A Mourning Wedding, by Carola Dunn