My 2021 Reading List

I am very behind in posting my 2021 Book list, but wanted to get it out there so I have a record, and because Book Rx is a part of Story Remedy! Below is an alphabetical list of most of the books I kept track of in 2021… it is definitely a year in which I read less than usual (I aim for a book a week), but I did lean more into poetry (not listed below), especially after the death of my step-mom, when I found I just did not have the focus to read lengthier books. Poetry, on the other hand, I found very consoling. My 2022 list is coming along, and re-reading Ulysses definitely impacted the quantity of my reading, but certainly not the quality. If you’d like, please share some of your favorite reads of the past couple years in the comments.

Baldwin, James. Another Country

Baldwin, James. Go Tell It On The Mountain

Banks, Russell. Foregone

Brown, Sarah M. The Yellow House

Danticat, Edwidge. Brother, I’m Dying

Evanisto, Bernardine. Girl, Woman, Other

Everett, Perival. Erasure

Ford, Ashley C. Somebody’s Daughter

Gay, Roxanne. Hunger

Goldman, Francisco. Monkey Boy

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin In the Sun

Ignatieff, Michael. Scar Tissue

Jones, Robert, Jr. The Prophets

Jones, Saeed. How We Fight For Our Lives

Joseph, Peniel E. The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X. and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Knausgaard, Karl. My Struggle, Vol. 6

Maxwell, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow

Mendez, Paul. Rainbow Milk

Modiano, Patrick. Pedigree

Nunez, Sigrid. What Are You Going Through?

Robinson, Marilynne. Jack

Stuart, Douglas. Shuggie Bain

Washburn, Kawai Strong. Sharks in the Time of Saviors