100 Books in 2021

I limited myself to 100, but went up to 115. Oops! Got to work on more writing of my own. I've taken off the extra 15 from this list so it's a neat 100. So these are my favourites, I suppose...

I’ve written about some of these in my blogs from 2020 and 2021, but particularly enjoyed the memoirs by Grace Dent and Pete Paphides, which I didn’t quite catch on their release in 2020 but loved reading this year. I love this pic below (from Wix) because it looks like me and my bookshelves, but grey rather than dark blue. I'm crazy about our re-done bookshelves, built by my Dad a few years ago and painted by our wonderful local handyman George for our little starter home...

1. The Road Trip - Beth O’Leary

2. Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny

3. Single, Carefree, Mellow - Katherine Heiny

4. The Wife who Got a Life - Tracy Bloom

5. Coming Out Stories - ed. Emma Goswell

6. Sorrow and Bliss - Meg Mason

7. Lullaby Beach - Stella Duffy

8. The Hungover Games - Sophie Heawood

9. Bright Burning Things - Lisa Harding

10. Diary of a Film - Niven Govinden

11. Let’s Do It - (the biography of Victoria Wood) - Jasper Rees

12. The Secret Bridesmaid - Katy Birchall

13. Last Night - Mhairi McFarlane

14. People like Her - Ellery Lloyd

15. Hungry - Grace Dent

16. In the End it was All about Love - Musa Okwonga

17. The Wedding Party - Tammy Cohen

18. Until Next Weekend - Rachel Marks

19. Queen Bee - Jane Fallon

20. The Engagements - J Courtney Sullivan

21. No Such Thing as Perfect - Emma Hughes

22. All Adults Here - Emma Straub

23. The Answer to Everything - Luke Kennard

24. Lessons in Love and other Crimes - Elizabeth Chakrabarty

25. Last one at the Party - Bethany Clift

26. Unbreak my Heart- Katie Marsh

27. Uncoupling - Lorraine Brown

28. Nothing I Wouldn’t Do - Sara-Ella Ozbek

29. Delicacy - Katy Wix

30. Magpie - Elizabeth Day

31. The Madness of Grief - Revd. Richard Coles

32. Gay Bar - Why we went out- Jeremy Atherton Lin

33. Handmade - Anna Ploszajski

34. That Summer - Jennifer Weiner

35. Just Haven’t Met You Yet - Sophie Cousens

36. The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle - Matt Cain

37. The Startup Wife - Tahmima Anam

38. We are Not like Them - Christine Pride and Jo Piazza

39. The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris

40. The End of Men - Christine Sweeney-Baird

41. Variations- Juliet Jacques

42. All the Things She Said - Daisy Jones

43. Sunrise on the Sea - Jenny Colgan

44. Would I Lie to You? - Aliya Ali-Afzal

45. Pizza Girl - Jean Kyoung Frazier

46. The Way it Breaks - Polis Loizou

47. The Night she Disappeared - Lisa Jewell

48. That Jewish Thing - Amber Crewe

49. Patience - Victoria Scott

50. The House Swap - Olivia Beirne

51. Underbelly - Anna Whitehouse

52. How We Met - Huma Qureshi

53. The Turnout - Megan Abbott

54. That Green Eyed Girl - Julie Moylan

55. Should We Stay or Should we Go - Lionel Shriver

56. He’s Cancelled - Sophie Ranald

57. Is This It? - Hannah Tovey

58. Writers and Lovers - Lily King

59. Broken Greek - Pete Paphides

60. Afraid of the Light - Douglas Kennedy

61. On a Night like This - Lindsey Kelk

62. The Stranding - Kate Sawyer

63. The Editor’s Wife - Clare Chambers

64. Memphis - Tara M Stringfellow

65. Are We Having Fun Yet? - Lucy Mangan

66. Stepping Up - Sarah Turner

67. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus

68. Impossible - Sarah Lotz

69. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall

70. Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake - Alexis Hall

71. Reclaiming Asia Wevill - Julie Goodman-Chadwick

72. M is for Mummy - Katy Cox

73. Aisling and the City - Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

74. Yinka, Where is your Huzband? - Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

75. What Might Have Been - Holly Miller

76. The Herd - Emily Edwards

77. The Silent Stars Go By - Sally Nicholls

78. Welcome to Your Life - Bethany Rutter

79. Other Parents - Sarah Stovell

80. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw

81. Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

82. Square One - Nell Frizzell

83. The Multi Hyphen Method - Emma Gannon

84. The Poet - Louisa Reid

85. Surge - Jay Bernard

86. The Christmas Bookshop - Jenny Colgan

87. Several People are Typing - Calvin Kasulke

88. The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

89. Idol - Louise O’Neill

90. Single Bald Female - Laura Price

91. Worst Idea Ever - Jane Fallon

92. The Matzah Ball - Jean Meltzer

93. The Heights - Louise Candlish

94. A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting - Sophie Irwin

95. At the Table - Claire Powell

96. A Narrow Door - Joanne Harris

97. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way - Rebecca Wait

98. Loved and Missed - Susie Boyt

99. A Still Life - Josie George

100. These Precious Days - Ann Patchett