Ranking My Top 21 Books of 2021

this is a devastatingly beautiful gorgeous book tabs are in this book lots of really stunning lines

this monster of a book is part one of two part two will probably come out in three or four years such a delight reading this book my favorite sections were the earlier ones of pre-presidential election and then the actual race of 2008

beautiful world where are you which came out this year in september and normal people adored all of them

i could rank them i would rank them conversations with friends beautiful world where are you which came out this year in september and normal people adored all of them

just so stunning so gorgeously written and so it's a memoir basically about losing her mother to cancer this book had such a huge impact on me

holy [ __ ] i absolutely adored this book i read it right after reading evelyn hugo because i finished evelyn huckle and just couldn't get enough

this book slaps so hard oh my god it is brutal it is shocking i've never read such an honest account of being trans and living in a city with the community experiences and just the individual it's it's like it's harrowing it is like not a chill book at all

it is equal parts the title and the subtitle which is why we went out so it's equal parts like true history and information there's also quite a bit of queer theory why we went out what it means to go to a gay bar and be surrounded by your community and also lots of personal accounts from the author i think it's a really beautiful balance of all of those things

three sundays in a row in literally january of this year i read the first three just like in one city i can't recommend this enough if you just want to feel good queer why a time series slaps it is so good

three sundays in a row in literally january of this year i read the first three just like in one city i can't recommend this enough if you just want to feel good queer why a time series slaps it is so good

the fact that i then got to read volume four in december was really nice full circle moment because i really see this as like a beginning point of the year was reading heart stopper for me

oh my god i can't say enough good things about this book it is a family story it is paced beautifully it is written in this just stunning writing style

this book was such a delight i read it during pride month this book just makes me smile thinking about it like what queer y a is becoming now

it is oh my god so wonderful one of the best yeas of the year just won the national book award

it's very much my vibe queer love story sort of journey through this man's life through different stages of his life living with hiv living in soul queer relationships coming of age a really powerful friendship story it's really beautifully written beautifully translated

normal people adored all of them that's not me saying i didn't like normal people but sally rooney is just an amazing writer

oh my god i mean if you're unaware this is casey mcquisten's second novel after red white and royal blue i like it even more than red white and royal blue it's so good i've read both of those books twice

this is a very vulnerable very real story of a childhood that's not so easy they struggled with addiction tells the story of them being diagnosed with hiv and having some health scares within that i mean it is a very powerful memoir i highly recommend doing the audiobook because jonathan reads it

this is probably aside from turtles all the way down which is like a top 10 books of all time for me this is my second favorite john green book it gets better and better as you go

holy [ __ ] this book shook my world my memory of reading this book is like i see myself as the wicked witch of the west because i was just like riding my bike through this colorado trail with the audiobook in my ears

it's hard to imagine anyone disliking this book just the pacing of her writing the structure of it i mean this is a story that is told over multiple decades of a career and a life and love and just so much drama

this book did not break out that much i just like it's a joyride of a book

i loved this book garth greenwall is one of my favorite writers

this book just hit in all the right places for me it's so it's so good it is a gay thriller the main character is like 25 falls in love after hunting down basically his hero playwright it is the gay get out that's just what it is it's so intense it's a wild ride written beautifully

i loved and adored this book it is a master class of a character study and character development oh i can't say enough about it