Tune into this episode for a quick recap of the holiday season in tiny town, a review of Amy’s Best of 2021 book list, and New Year’s resolutions. Happy New Year!
Amy’s Best of 2021 Books
Lists in no particular order
Fiction Top Ten:
1. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
2. The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
3. Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
4. Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
5. Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker
6. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
7. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
8. Matrix by Lauren Groff
9. The Overstory by Richard Powers
10. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Thrillers Top Ten:
1. Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
2. His & Hers by Alice Feeney
3. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
4. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
5. Falling by T. J. Newman
6. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
7. For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing
8. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
9. Verity by Colleen Hoover
10. The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
Non Fiction Top 5
1.These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
2. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
3. Finding Freedom by Erin French
4. Food Saved Me by Danielle Walker
5. Tinsel by Hank Stuever
Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2022:
1. Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins – January
2. Violeta by Isabel Allende – January
3. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu – January
4. Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron #14 – February
5. Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano – February
6. This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel – February
7. All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett – March
8. Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr – March
9. The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd – March
10. The Fell by Sarah Moss – March
11. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel – April
12. The Candy House by Jennifer Egan – April
13. The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz – May
14. When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill – May
15. The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian – May
16. The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner – May
17. You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi – May
18. Gilt by Jamie Brenner – June
19. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix – July
20. Prince Harry’s As-Yet-Untitled Memoir, Pub Date TBA
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