Best Books of 2021: Fiction and Non-Fiction

It is so well written and so striking and very different I couldn't not have this one on my best books of the year.

I just think it's gorgeous nature writing and gorgeous emotional character work and I think I’m really glad I enjoyed this Richard Powers because I’ve read two of his other books and didn't enjoy them and wanted something to bring me back and this definitely brought me back another five star book.

This is a strange book, it's marvellous. I want more from her like now.

I think it is very vulnerable and very I want to say sharp edged it almost feels a bit like if you were grieving it's that feeling of if you've broken glass on the floor and you almost can't go near it to clean it up because you're so frightened you might stand on a piece but I do think it's just gorgeous and clear and well worth the read but I would say as it is fairly kind of raw.

I did really like this one an awful lot I think it's very approachable if it's not a topic that you're familiar with it all feels like there's quite a lot going on in that space.

I think that it is this amazing mix of like sci-fi, capitalism, workplace drama, human connection, playfulness as well as in the style and it's just fabulous I think this is such a brilliant little book.

I loved this book so much if you haven't read this one again this is one of my like absolute top picks for 2021 I would just put it in everyone's hands.

it's just this it's so relatable and so crippling the way that she describes the relationship she has with things how things control the way that she lives her life and I just I just think more people need to read this one.

Chronic fatigue syndrome is something I know very little about and I really loved reading this first person account.

I just think it's brilliant I don't think it's overblown or dramatized I think it's just as it is and that just felt very precious to me so Inferno is one I’m definitely going to remember and keep in my heart for the years to come.

this is so full of like Sapphic desire and feminism and strength and grit it feels really gritty I just absolutely adored it.

I really loved it I can see why it's divisive but I think it's brilliant.

this looks at a young person who turns up one day in the pew of a church and the community that's very close-knit takes them in and sees themselves as kind of looking after this person in god's name etc. but they lose interest in their well-being the less questions and the less conforming that Pew is to that community. It's brilliant.

I really enjoyed this one I’d happily read it again and I don't often reread nonfiction so that's an interesting one.

this is probably the best book this year I’ve read that helped me understand COVID better so if that's something you want to do I would really push you towards this one.

I absolutely ate this one up and it meant I enjoyed it so much it meant I read all of Sarah Moss's back catalogue in 2021 as well.

it's just brilliant and it's terrifying so this is a really scary book. I’ve gifted this to three people this year because I can't get it out of my head I just absolutely adored it.

this is feminism and medicine or wrapped up in a bundle if you're interested in any of those things I think you'd enjoy this one it also it's a bigger book but it reads very quickly it's very compelling.

I just think it was fascinating beautifully written and if even if you're not like a sciencey person it really doesn't matter I just think it's so clever and I kind of want more of this but for different things but I don't feel like that's what the direction they'll go in but yes I loved it.