2021 reads

It was a banner year for reading!  One of my goals was to read 21 minutes a day in 2021.  I was successful 97% of days (only missed 10).  And obviously read a lot more than 21 minutes on many days...  Really reading again (after not reading many non-kid books over the last decade) helped me feel like I was claiming something for myself.  What an idea!

  • 1. The Girl With the Louding Voice
  • 2. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
  • 3. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
  • 4. Better Than Before
  • 5. To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 6. The Twenty-One Balloons
  • 7. Dark Water Rising
  • 8. The Book of Lost Names
  • 9. Diamond as Big as the Ritz (novella)
  • 10. Fried and Prejudiced
  • 11 & 12. Nancy Drew #1 and #3
  • 13. Locker Hero (audiobook)
  • 14. New Kid (audiobook)
  • 15. Encyclopedia Brown Saves the Day (audiobook)
  • 16. Fortune and Glory: Tantalizing 27
  • 17. The Sidewalk Story
  • 18. West With Giraffes
  • 19. Attracting Native Pollinators
  • 20. Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
  • 21. Percy Jackson: The Lightening Thief
  • 22. The Commuter
  • 23. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  • 24. The Legend of Jack Riddle
  • 25. The Giver of Stars
  • 26. How Y'all Doing?
  • 27. Evvie Drake Starts Over
  • 28. The Indian in the Cupboard
  • 29. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
  • 30. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
  • 31. The Journey That Saved Curious George
  • 32. The Human Comedy
  • 33. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
  • 34. The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
  • 35. A Man Called Ove
  • 36. Anxious People
  • 37. Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories
  • 38. Maya and the Rising Dark
  • 39. Breaker
  • 40. Scary Stories for Young Foxes
  • 41. Leading Teams
  • 43. A Good Neighborhood
  • 42. Normal People
  • 44. Conversations With Friends
  • 45. The Guest List
  • 46. Imperfect Courage
  • 47. Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters
  • 48. Transcendent Kingdom
  • 49. The Midnight Library
  • 50. Homegoing
  • 51. Coping With Anxiety: 10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear, & Worry
  • 52. Bass Ackwards and BellyUp
  • 53. Crying in H Mart
  • 54. My Time Will Come
  • 55. The Paris Library
  • 56. Footfree and Fancyloose
  • 57. The House in the Cerulean Sea
  • 58. Charlie Hernandez and the Castle of Bones
  • 59. Educated
  • 60. Unidentified Suburban Object
  • 61. Effigest
  • 62. People We Meet on Vacation
  • 63. Juliet Takes a Breath (graphic novel)
  • 64. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
  • 65. The Comfort Book
  • 66. Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
  • 67. Where the Crawdads Sing
  • 68. Harry's Trees

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