2021 Books
One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston
Of Woman and Salt - Gabriela Garcia
The Performance - Clare Thomas
The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley
Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
Fierce Pose: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York - Alexander Nemerov
The Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York - Elon Green
Spilt Milk - Courtney Zoffness
Cool for the Summer - Dahlia Adler
The Seed Keeper - Diane Wilson
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure - Menachem Kaiser*
My Broken Language - Quiara Alegría Hudes
White Magic - Elissa Washuta
The Resisters - Gish Jen
Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It - Elle Cosimano
Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri
The Searcher - Tana French
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
The Others - Sarah Blau
The Intimacy Experiment - Rosie Danan
Lillyville: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played - Tovah Feldshuh*
Black Widows - Cate Quinn
The Scapegoat - Sara Davis
With Teeth - Kristen Arnett
Red Island House - Andrea Lee
Recipe for Persuasion - Sonali Dev
Luster - Raven Leilani
My Year Abroad - Chang-Rae Lee
While We Were Dating - Jasmine Guillory
NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo & Beyond - Jules Boykoff*
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names - Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
A Touch of Jen - Beth Morgan
The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris
Filthy Animals - Brandon Taylor
The Perfume Thief - Timothy Schaffert
Ghost Forest - Pik-Sheun Fung
Girl One - Sara Flannery Murphy
Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So
The Embassy Wife - Katie Crouch
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1) - Rick Riordan
Continuum - Chella Man
Intimacies - Katie Kitamura
The Woman from Uruguay - Pedro Mairal (trans Jennifer Croft)
We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This - Rachel Lynn Solomon
Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic - Emma Goldberg
Address Unknown - Katherine Kressman Taylor
The Day the Klan Came to Town - Bill Campbell & Bizhan Khodabandeh
Something Wild - Hanna Halperin
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
The Lost Apothecary - Sarah Penner
Northern Spy - Flynn Berry
Seven Days In June - Tia Williams
Praying with Jane Eyre: Reflections on Reading as Sacred Practice - Vanessa Zoltan
Committed: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in Training - Adam Stern
Olympus Texas - Stacey Swann
The Box In the Woods - Maureen Johnson
Dogs on the Trail: A Year in the Life - Blair Braverman with Quince Mountain
The Bloom Girls - Amy Pine
Virtue - Hermione Hoby
I Couldn’t Love You More - Esther Freud
What to Miss When: Poems - Leigh Stein
Double Blind - Edward St. Aubyn
Every Day the River Changes: Four Weeks Down the Magdalena - Jordan Salama*
A Line to Kill - Anthony Horowitz
The Almost Legendary Morris Sisters: A True Story of Family Fiction - Julie Klam
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory - Roxane Van Iperen
In Five Years - Rebecca Serle
Orwell’s Roses - Rebecca Solnit
Our Country Friends - Gary Shteyngart
The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
Still Life - Sarah Winman
A Play for the End of the World - Jai Chakrabarti
I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness - Claire Vaye Watkins
Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love - Rebecca Frankel
Drawn That Way - Elissa Sussman
A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske
Assembly - Natasha Brown
The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
Win Me Something - Kyle Lucia Wu
Fight Night - Miriam Toews
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present - Dara Horn
Monster in the Middle - Tiphanie Yanique
Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer - Rax King
The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
What Storm, What Thunder - Myriam J. A. Chancy
Martita, I Remember You / Martita, te recuerdo - Sandra Cisneros (trans. Liliana Valenzuela)
When Two Feathers Fell From the Sky - Margaret Verble
The Four Humors - Mina Seçkin
Sankofa - Chibundu Onuzo
The Portrait of a Mirror - A. Natasha Joukovsky
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey - Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Matrix - Lauren Groff
La Place De L’Étoile - Patrick Modiano
Painting Time - Maylis de Kerangal (trans. Jessica Moore)
The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
The 22 Murders of Madison May - Max Barry
The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical - Shaul Magid*
Unwritten Rules - KD Casey
These Women - Ivy Pochoda
Here Is New York - E.B. White
When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers - Ken Krimstein
Sea State - Tabitha Lasley
My Body - Emily Ratajkowski
From the Jewish Provinces: Selected Stories - Fradl Shtok (trans. Jordan D. Finkin & Allison Schachter)
Tunnels - Ruti Modan (trans. Ishai Mishory)
By the Grace of the Game: The Holocaust, a Basketball Legacy, and an Unprecedented American Dream - Dan Grunfeld
Years of Glory: Nelly Benatar and the Pursuit of Justice in Wartime North Africa - Susan Gilson Miller
The Verifiers - Jane Pek
The Maid - Nita Prose
The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan
Pure Color - Sheila Heti
Last Resort - Andrew Lipstein
The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home - Jami Attenberg
A River Enchanted - Rebecca Ross
The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America - Javier Sinay (trans. Robert Croll)
Weather Girl - Rachel Lynn Solomon
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Jennifer Croft)
Civilizations - Laurent Binet (trans. Sam Taylor)
Olga Dies Dreaming - Xochitl Gonzalez
The Days of Afrekete - Asali Solomon
Fiona and Jane - Jean Chen Ho
Agatha of Little Neon - Claire Luchette
Be Here to Love Me at the End of the World - Sasha Fletcher
How High We Go in the Dark - Sequioa Nagamatsu
Judith: A Tale of Love & Woe - Miriam Karpilove (trans. Jessica Kirzane)
The Cartographers - Peng Shepherd
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times - Azar Nafisi
