Read in 2021

In 2020, I read a new personal best of 77 books, beating my previous effort in 2019 when I read 75 books. This year I'm going to try to read 75 books and see how I go. I’ll be keeping track of the books I read in 2021 on this page, so feel free to click on the hyperlinks below to read the reviews as the year progresses or check out my reviews alphabetically by author. Wish me luck!

January
The African Lookbook - A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley

The World of PostSecret by Frank Warren

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

My Best Friend's Murder by Polly Phillips

#EntryLevelBoss by Alexa Shoen

The Swap by Robyn Harding

February

The Reach by B. Michael Radburn

Life With the Afterlife: 13 Truths I Learned about Ghosts by Amy Bruni

The Shape of Darkness by Laura Purcell

Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble by Paul Cookson
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago

Peanut Butter: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Midnight by Tim Lannan & James Annabel

March

Everything is Beautiful by Eleanor Ray

Elsewhere by Dean Koontz

Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles

The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

The Last Reunion by Kayte Nunn

April

High Heel by Summer Brennan

The Paris Affair by Pip Drysdale

Gory Details by Erika Engelhaupt

Tussaud by Belinda Lyons-Lee

The Pun Also Rises by John Pollack

Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz

May

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

Hair by Scott Lowe

Mrs England by Stacey Halls

Grave Tales: Melbourne Vol. 1 by Helen Goltz & Chris Adams

The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

June
Katharine Parr: The Sixth Wife by Alison Weir

Dust by Michael Marder

Dream Big, Little Mole by Tom Percival

The Family Doctor by Debra Oswald

A Voice In The Night by Sarah Hawthorn

How to Be A Vet by Dr Jess French & Sol Linero

The World at My Feet by Catherine Isaac

July

The Emporium of Imagination by Tabitha Bird

The Inner Self by Hugh Mackay

Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies & Frances Gies

Leilong the Library Bus by Julia Liu & Bei Lynn

The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville

The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell

August

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Billy Summers by Stephen King

Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell

The Ex-Husband by Karen Hamilton

Silence by John Biguenet

The Lost Girls by Jennifer Spence

September

Nineteen Days by Kath Engebretson

How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain by Ruth Goodman

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

As Swallows Fly by L. P. McMahon

The Perfect Guests by Emma Rous

Calypso by David Sedaris

October

Mother May I by Joshilyn Jackson

Naked by David Sedaris

How Do You Fight A Horse-Sized Duck? by William Poundstone

Noni the Pony Counts to a Million by Alison Lester

Old Vintage Melbourne by Chris Macheras

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Devotion by Hannah Kent

Everything I Know about Life I Learned from PowerPoint by Russell Davies

November

Christmas in Suburbia by Warren Kirk

The Housemate by Sarah Bailey

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris

All Through the Night by Polly Faber & Harriet Hobday

The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Modern Slow Cooker by Alyce Alexandra

December

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Never by Ken Follett

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Kill Your Brother by Jack Heath

At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

John Safran vs The Occult by John Safran