Who among us would claim to have the barest grasp on how time works? I used to have a very clear image in mind of the progression of time through the seasons and year after year. Now I can't even tell you what day it is or whether something happened yesterday or six months ago. We're all damaged!
Case in point, I know I did some things in 2021, and I even managed to go on a few trips, but all I can really tell you is that I read a lot of books. I had pretty much no productive output. I stayed alive, I ticked the boxes of being a productive member of society, but damn if it wasn't just one unending holding pattern. Just when we thought it was clear to land, they were like, nope, buckle up, this twisted journey isn't over yet!
And now here we are and it's somehow February, even though we were all sure for a minute there it would be January 32nd every day for the rest of our lives. So let me just take a moment to brag about this baller spreadsheet I made for all the books I read last year. Don't hate because you ain't.
| Title | Author | Genre | Other |
| Fleishman is in Trouble | Taffy Brodesser Akner | fiction | |
| Kim Ji Young, Born 1982 | Cho Nam-ju | fiction | |
| The Undocumented Americans | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | non-fiction | |
| Rich and Pretty | Rumaan Alam | fiction | |
| Cleanness | Garth Greenwell | fiction | reads like a memoir, TFG this was fiction, sweet lord |
| Death in Her Hands | Otessa Moshfegh | fiction | |
| Deacon King Kong | James McBride | fiction | |
| Little Eyes | Samantha Schweblin | fiction | |
| The Sea Wife | Amity Gaige | fiction | |
| The Midnight Library | Matthew Haig | fiction | book club |
| The Best of Me | David Sedaris | non-fiction | |
| Monogamy | Susan Miller | fiction | |
| Real Life | Brandon Taylor | fiction | |
| The Children's Bible | Lydia Millet | fiction | |
| Sisters | Daisy Johnson | fiction | |
| Greetings from New Nashville | Steve Haruch (editor) | non-fiction | essay collection |
| Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | fiction | |
| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam | fiction | |
| Everywhere You Don't Belong | Gabriel Bump | fiction | |
| Mediocre | Ijeoma Oluo | non-fiction | |
| Memorial | Brian Washington | fiction | |
| Nomadland | Jessica Bruder | non-fiction | |
| The Life of the Mind | Christine Smallwood | fiction | |
| Winter Pasture | Li Juan | non-fiction | |
| Big Time | Jen Spyra | fiction | story collection |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood | fiction | |
| Fake Accounts | Lauren Oyler | fiction | |
| The Upstars House | Julia Fine | fiction | book club |
| Between Two Kingdoms | Suleika Jaouad | non-fiction | memoir |
| Selfish, Shallow and Self Absorbed | Meghan Daum (editor) | non-fiction | essay collection |
| Notes from the Bathroom Line | Amy Solomon (editor) | non-fiction | humor collection |
| Festival Days | Jo Ann Beard | hybrid | essay collection, story collection |
| How to be a Family | Dan Kois | non-fiction | travel, memoir |
| Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner | non-fiction | memoir |
| The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | fiction | |
| Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing | Laruen Hough | non-fiction | memoir |
| The Secret Lives of Church Ladies | Deesha Philyaw | fiction | story collection |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | fiction | |
| Somebody's Daughter | Ashley C. Ford | non-fiction | memoir |
| The Wreckage of My Presence | Casey Wilson | non-fiction | memoir |
| The Body | Bill Bryson | non-fiction | |
| The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelides | fiction | |
| The Mothers | Brit Bennett | fiction | |
| This Will All Be Over Soon | Cecily Strong | non-fiction | memoir |
| The Book of Eels | Patrik Svensson | non-fiction | |
| Better to Have Gone: Love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville | Akash Kapur | non-fiction | |
| Late Migrations: A natural history of love and loss | Margaret Renkl | non-fiction | memoir |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | fiction | |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You? | Sally Rooney | fiction | |
| A Swim in a Pond in the Rain | George Saunders | hybrid | essay collection, story collection |
| Sag Harbor | Colson Whitehead | fiction | |
| Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes | Phoebe Robinson | non-fiction | memoir |
| Oligarchy | Scarlett Thomas | fiction | |
| Conversations with Friends | Sally Rooney | fiction | |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura | fiction | |
| Graceland, At Last | Margaret Renkl | non-fiction | memoir |
| This is Your Mind on Plants | Michael Pollan | non-fiction | |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead | fiction | |
| Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen | fiction | |
| Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry | fiction | |
| Piranesi | Susannah Clarke | fiction | |
| Topics of Conversation | Miranda Popkey | fiction | |
| A Carnival of Snackery | David Sedaris | non-fiction | |
| Our Country Friends | Gary Shteyngart | fiction | |
| Machines Like Me | Ian McEwan | fiction |
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