First, what were the best books you read this year?
Answered in the order they were read, no other rankings.
- Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeline Albright (best nonfiction)
- "The Enchanted Bluff" by Willa Cather (best short story)
- Paper Girls omnibus trilogy by Brian K. Vaughn (best comic/graphic novel collection)
- The Waves by Virginia Woolf (best classic literature)
- The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (best genre fiction)
- ???? Not sure yet(best modern novel)
Second, do you have any favorite books from 2021 that you can recommend?- Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota - the science fiction tetralogy finished off this year and I am 98% certain that the last book will be my book of the year. These books are not for everyone, but they are the best science fiction I can recommend to philosophy lovers.
- The Chosen and the Beautiful is a great re-telling of Gatsby with a heap of magical realism.
- Paper Girls is an excellent comic series that is set in the late 80s and was a helluva lot of fun.
Third, what books are on your "I cant wait!" lists for 2022?- I have James Rebanks' new book on my shelf and am saving it for January.
- I've likewise been saving Joan Didion's latest collection Let Me Tell You What I Mean
I'll probably edit later with some more stuff, but this was a good first pass of my spreadsheet.