Favourite Books of 2021

i thought it was really nicely done with really kind of realistic character psychology and wonderful character relationships and a really fantastic ending

i love this so much it was such a joy to read it made me want to reread all of dickens immediately but i just thoroughly enjoyed this book

i just love this book so much i just thought it was so historically interesting as well as being a wonderful read with fantastic characterization and really wonderful powerful moments in it

i think it's a really great wonderful read that is really like emotionally powerful and with some fantastic character development where it is kind of funny and strange

i love this so much there were so many wonderful stories in here i loved every story some more than others of course but i just thought this was such a fantastic read

i finally read this after having had it on my shelves for a very long time and i loved it's a long book but then it's absolutely worth the length and it didn't even feel long when i was reading it because i just loved the world so much

i just loved so much about this what i really liked about this book i think was that it's a really interesting world like the near future world set up in this book it's fascinating

it is really powerful really well written with fantastic characterization really great scenes and a really kind of interesting frame narrative that i really enjoyed

last night is such a wonderful read i'd read one book by vora mcfarland before but this is definitely my favorite of hers so far and it was just fantastic

i really enjoyed little edward dies i thought it was a really great mystery with a really good finale a really fun setup and a lot of wonderful characters

it's simultaneously absolutely hilarious and completely heartbreaking and the characterization as i said is just supreme

there are so many things that i loved about this book it is less plot driven than sarah waters other novels i would say this is very much like a character study and a study of a particular point in time

this is a why a pride and prejudice retelling that i read back in janus in july and just thoroughly enjoyed it was just such an enjoyable read such good fun but also dealing wonderfully with some really serious themes beneath it

i just loved it i just loved it so much it is everything that i like in a book

i just absolutely fell in love with the dictionary of lost words i highly recommend it what a book definitely a favorite of the year

i thought it was fantastic very much my kind of historical fiction i definitely need to read elizabeth mcneill's new book circus of wonders as well

there is a fantastic villain who is drawn wonderfully i just thought it was a great read i really like jay sheridan fanu and his characterization and his complex plots are just really good fun to read

this is a book about memory and time and history and love it is fantastic the characterization in it is incredible

it was one of those books that i listened to her own audiobook and i read it fairly slowly and it just crept up on me and then by the end i was just completely in love with it

i loved so much about the vicarable hamden i think the characterization was wonderful and the plot was so good it was such a joy to read as anthony trollope always is for me