Our Favorite Books of the Year: 2021 Edition
Updated: Nov 23, 2021
It's our biggest book list of the year! We've had a good year at Bookstore1 and we've done a lot of reading. Here are our personal favorites of 2021; many were published this year, but we also took some trips into the past. It's a great mix of genres and styles. This year we have also included our top 3 picks of the year for the store. These are books that at least 4 of us who work at the store read and loved.
Follow us down our diverse reading paths to find something that calls out to you.
Our top 3 picks of the year!
Klara and the Sun 
Crossroads 
Book of Form and Emptiness
Andrea
Hell of a Book 
Zorrie 
Between Two Kingdom 
The Center of Everything 
Everyone Knows Your Mother...
Bryn
How to Pronounce Knife 
Heads of the Colored People 
Farthest South 
Wait Till You See Me Dance 
Here's Your Hat What's Your...
Doug
King of the Blues 
100 Poems to Break Your Heart 
Cultish Crossroads 
The Madness of Crowds
Elsie
The Plot 
The Promise 
Firefly 
Finding Freedom 
Never
Georgia
Having and Being Had 
Eva and Eve 
The World of Wonders 
The Four Winds 
The Giver of Stars
James
Klara and the Sun The Book of Form and Emptiness 
Karma 
This is Your Mind on Plants 
Will
Katia
Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes 
Detransition, Baby 
Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian 
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears 
Fake Accounts
Melanie
The Lincoln Highway 
Cloud Cuckoo Land The Book of Form and Emptiness 
Hamnet 
Eternal
Mia
Circe 
The Kite Runner 
The Bell Jar 
Crime and Punishment 
The Song of Achilles
Nora
Weather 
Intimacies 
Mike Nichols: A Life 
Mrs. March 
Northern Spy
Olivia
Beautiful World. Where Are You 
The Bluest Eye 
So Long, See You Tomorrow 
Faber Book of Reportage 
Running with Sherman
Roxanne
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Crossroads 
Beyond Order 
Everything I Have Is Yours 
You Can't Be Serious
Scott
The Free World 
Hegoland 
Cuba: An American History 
On Animals 
We Are What We Eat
Vincent
Station Eleven 
The Boys in the Boat 
Letters to a Young Athlete
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