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Looking back at my year in books, I noticed that while I read a little less than in 2020, I read more fiction. With pandemic closures still a thing throughout 2021, I had limited access to my local library. This turned out to be a good thing as I was forced to place books on hold. Most of the new releases were checked out or had long waiting lists, so I turned to the older titles on my TBR lists. I read lovely award winning books like the children’s fable The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill and snuck in a few nonfiction books like The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin.
In between reading older titles, I managed to get a hold of some books published this year. And now that my library has reopened, I plan on jumping into the best 2022 has to offer. But before that, here are my top three 2021 reads.
**SPOILER ALERT: If you plan to read any of these books then do not read my summaries below.**
Top 3 Reads
- Should We Stay or Should We Go? By Lionel Shriver
This book is heartbreaking, funny, scary, and so much more. Each chapter is a different imagining of how an older couple will live out their last days. The vignettes that kept me up at night were the ones most likely to come true: one partner agrees to a suicide pact then reneges after the other has died. Even more chilling was the imagining of being trapped in a state…
