RANKING ALL THE BOOKS I READ IN 2021! (79 books!)

i really like this is like a dark academia queer is there magic is there not magic murder mystery set in a remote boarding school read it during the fall very atmospheric and fun

the amount i sobbed while reading this book the character work divine the story heartwarming and also just bittersweet

steampunk murder mystery story i did guess the ending so i'm gonna put it at the end of solidly good but the writing and the setting was so cool

this was one of my favorite sci-fi stories i encountered this year which is so unique and fast-paced

i really enjoyed this concluding novel within one of my favorite y fantasy series i do think it was the weakest of the four that came out still very good

one of my favorite middle grades i've read in so long just the world the characters the magic it is astonishingly delightful

the arm of the sphinx which is book two to the line of sun series i'm gonna put it just ahead of book one because i did enjoy it a bit more

i really liked bitter blue i think i'd put it in solidly good it wasn't my favorite of the three but it was still immaculate

i really liked taliban's war i felt like james essay cory did a great job making more likable characters in the second one

a chain of iron which was immaculate oh my gosh one of the best why fantasy books i've read in a while just the emotions i felt while reading this

i did find this one to be a bit disappointing it just did not live up to how good i remember it being

this is the dawn shard this is great it's a novella i don't really know how to rank it i'll rank it near remote control i liked them both quite a bit

a very classic whodunit mystery story which i'm gonna put here i'm a sucker for books like this it's trapped on a boat again one of those questions of like is it dark magic is it real

clay and i were both absolutely captivated by this story it was shocking fascinating but i also really appreciated the amount of self-reflection

honestly so incredible like absolutely slaps best book of the original trilogy like fire shot up at the top of my list

which i thought to be really emotional really complex really captured me while i was reading it and just a story of mourning and just family trauma over multiple generations

i really liked book one to this trilogy i felt like it really had a soft and beautiful opening for the reintroduction of fit's character to us i cried a lot

capping off with the fool's fate which is book three which i think is my favorite book of the year

i liked this book i feel like the longer i sit with it the less i like it so i'm going to stick it at the end of solidly good

it's just a beautiful historical fiction fantasy coming-of-age journey story about a girl who accidentally unleashes the mayan god of death i loved it

the golden fool which is book two to the tawny man trilogy i would say this is my least favorite of the three but i still loved it so very much

i really enjoyed graceling this was one of my favorite books growing up like absolutely destroyed me in so many ways

another audiobook that i listened to during my move it was so wildly entertaining and i would recommend picking this book up

super cute why romance about a girl using tropes from kdramas to score the love of her life in high school charming cute obviously didn't necessarily blow my mind

third and final book to the green bone saga so good i would say it's probably not my favorite book of the trilogy but it was still so excellent

this is a book that i found disappointing for a variety of reasons the characters didn't really draw me in very much

leviathan wakes probably the weakest of my fav books of 2021 still super entertaining i just didn't love the characters as much

this is like a peter pan retelling it's dark there's a central mystery about kids kind of disappearing in the woods and it kind of has this loose connection to peter pan

i actually feel like i liked this book a lot more than other people and also way more than i thought i was going to like it

this book was emotionally traumatizing for me to read it was really good though but oh my gosh it was shocking

i really loved a lot of the character development that we got in notebringer stormline archives is so good

also one of my favorite books of the year going in behind fool's fate just an absolutely moving historical fiction family saga about multiple generations of one family beautiful

this book absolutely screwed me up this is just one of the most heart-wrenching on the nose post-apocalyptic stories

this was solidly entertaining i liked it i wanted to read some halloween romances this year and i did

i really love evie dunmore's other books but this one i just didn't love the main character and i found some of the elements to just drag a bit

just the uniqueness the writing style the found family component the magic the fairy tale like quality of it was so amazing i loved this duology

just the uniqueness the writing style the found family component the magic the fairy tale like quality of it was so amazing i loved this duology

it's just a short story by nandi okorafor but it was one of the most unique stories that i read and i just i remember it really capturing me

it's probably my least favorite stormlight archive book but i mean like i love the focus on mental health that brandon sanderson does

settlin ascends which is one of my favorite books of the year too i thought it was unique and beautiful and kind of like a literary fiction fantasy story

this is a really fun historical y a fantasy japanese inspired story about a girl who's half human half kitsune has to go on this quest and adventure full of combat and elemental magic

oh i really loved this book it is a lyrical reimagining of the rise of the emperor of the ming dynasty so good

strange the dreamer was another reread for me and it just blew me out of the water it almost made my top 10 for the year i thought it was beautiful one of the best why fantasies

i think this is my favorite romance i read in 2021 it was charming and delightful full of humor great banter

i loved this book this is just such a fun quest witty story if you love hilarious and almost nonsensical kind of fantasy narrators like if you live lock lamora this is a book that you should check out

i just feel like the world that joe abercrombie introduced us to and the characters that we encountered in the blade itself just i fell in so head first

i felt like it still had some of like the 2013 trappings but the overall world was super entertaining

great gatsby queer retelling it was good it was good not much to say but it was good

the other one being the x hex which i also liked didn't like as much as paybacks a witch but they were entertaining for what they were trying to accomplish

i'm gonna say they're both solidly good i really liked them i wouldn't say i loved them but it did make me really excited to continue on with the series

another case of i read a book by this author loved it i read another book didn't love it as much so it kind of made it a disappointing read just because i had such high expectations

which again was just truly delightful and i'm putting it here so good one of my favorite middle grade books is a reread and i can't wait to carry on with the rest of the series

the golden compass was one of my favorite series growing up and i wanted to revisit it this year it honestly really surprised only because it held up super well and i loved it so much with a reread

i'm gonna say they're both solidly good i really liked them i wouldn't say i loved them but it did make me really excited to continue on with the series

another fantastic book it's such an interesting story because it's a fantasy book mixed with horror and it's also kind of a thriller just so unique and i loved the magic system

amazing writing family focused story with a hint of magic and it was like a family saga over time i loved it

the first half of it was like a five star read and the second half of it was just really disappointing i feel like i'm going to continue on with this series because i have high hopes that it will get better

kiss quotient which i'm gonna put ahead of written and read super cute kind of quirky really light-hearted and steamy romance story that i read in like 24 hours

this is a kind of aliens come to earth invasion style story it's pretty short but i do feel like it packs a solid punch

a great historical fiction sort of fantasy story again i have a type when it comes to books i thought this was delightful

it's a very good book this is a sort of dystopian story about an island that is slowly having things erased around them and they're and the populace there is forgetting things

i was really gripped by this book i loved the writing style i did think it ended a little abruptly but i still really liked it

just not a book for me just fell very flat really hyped and i personally just did not enjoy it

the mime order which i liked even better than the bone season this is book two to that series but it really expanded on the underworld component

unfortunately i did not love the night tire as much as the ghost bride and i also think in part because i had such high expectations it did kind of push it to be a disappointing read for me

a collection of short stories which is so good like i need to read more short story collections because this absolutely knocked it out of the park

which i would say is my favorite why a sci-fi book i read this year i think this is a story really about sisters

it started a little slow really liked john gwen's writing though brutal kind of viking-esque world ending explosive

it is a patrocless achilles sort of reimagining and it was beautiful i sobbed everyone loves this book including me

the soul of the sword which i'm going to put just ahead of the shadow of the fox fun entertaining kind of the same thoughts i have for the shadow of the fox as it's book two to the same series

this is a standalone fantasy series that is just so good just the amount of world building the author was able to pack in one book and also discussions of motherhood and family impeccable

jewish folklore story set in like the mid-1800s really interesting great writing

let me have the way of kings which again i reread this year and i'm gonna put this here

this was my first yongshi chew book fantastic 1920s historical fiction book set in malaysia with chinese folklore i loved it

it's actually why a road trip book where two teens kind of road trip during the end of the world after an alien invasion it's a great why a kind of queer romance survival based story very entertaining and charming

a lot of the reasons why i didn't like it bad pacing didn't like the characters i thought it was really boring was too long

i really loved this book by tj clune in the way that i love his writing and i love his found family components and i just find his stories really delightful

i think i'm gonna put oathbringer behind words of radius just because i have such a soft spot for words of radiance

this was also a reread i enjoyed it quite a bit found it entertaining was not perfect by any means but looking forward to reading the rest