We are already halfway through the first month of 2022. Honestly, “So many books, so little time” is beginning to make sense now. Bibliophiles always have that FOMO when it comes to new books. Don’t worry we have your back!
Every year deserves a list of the best books we read in that year.
Table of Contents
Picking up some of the titles from our Goodreads list, here are the 10 books we loved reading in 2021–
1. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nobel-Prize winning author returned with another masterpiece– Klara and the Sun, a dystopian fiction, set in the U.S revolving around Klara, an Artificial Friend with exceptional observance of the world who from her room on the shelf of a store observes human beings until she is chosen by a sickly child to be her friend.
2. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
We have been sucked into the world of social media and Patricia Lockwood represents our situation through her protagonist. Can a dog be twins?– that was a single tweet that made her famous online.
This unnamed narrator, who spends her entire day online (relatable?), finds her life turning upside down with a difficulty involving her sister’s pregnancy.
3. For Brown Girls With Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Prisca Dorcas and Mojica Rodríguez
If there was a book of the year for nudging readers from reading slump, this would be it.
Latina Rebels is a brainchild of Prisca, the author of this insightful book, who advocates for women of color in a world that is sexist, racist, and primarily white.
The book will make you realize the “white gaze” with its raw, factual, and profound theme and you will discover yourself combatting that imposter syndrome.
4. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer and Reed Hastings
The hype created on social media platforms when Netflix dropped its price is an open testimony to the success of this company that transformed itself into an OTT superpower challenging big platforms like Disney.
Finally, to give you hints about the secret of this whole another world, Reed Hastings, the Chairman and CEO of Netflix, will share his philosophy in this book.
Yes, the book was as interesting as its summary sound.
5. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and Keep– Love by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Do you find yourself attracted to unhealthy relationships? Do you struggle in these relationships? But do you still run away from healthy ones?
Neuroscientist Amir and psychologist Rachel have your answers in their attachment theory.
Attached is an insightful and comforting read that can elucidate and help curtail your anxiety about your actions and behaviors in relationships.
6. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali
A love story set in historical fiction, The Stationery Shop is the yearly does one needs to read a beautiful love story that ends in tears.
Roya and Bahman did not find time at their side when they fell in love during the Iranian Revolution of 1950.
A stationery shop in Tehran became their spot of blossoming love and on the day of their marriage, a violent incident ensues leaving Roya alone to search for Bahman.
7. How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
Bringing you a book from the shelves of the 1940s, How To Read a Book teaches you the art of not just reading, but intelligent reading.
Bibliophiles might think that this book is exclusively for those who do not like reading– but Adler, one of the best philosophers of his time, proves that the book is for everyone because nobody provides us with the “guide” of reading.
8. Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits is one such book that doesn’t need an intro but remains hidden under the pile of other books.
You might think that you are way ahead of the stage where one requires a self-help book but Atomic Habits will change your opinion from the first chapter itself.
The book is practical and application-based but only if you are reading it for the sake of learning good habits.
9. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Another title from the New York Times best books of 2021, When We Cease to Understand is a fictional venture on the lives of the scientists and thinkers from our world whose inventions led to some enormous changes.
It links discoveries and sciences with destruction and madness describing the complicated life of these distinguished people.
10. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Madeline Miller deals with all the readers who can’t read epics with The Song of Achilles in a positive way– An adaptation of Homer’s Illiad, it is set in the Greek Heroic Age, written from the viewpoint of Patroclus and his relationship with Achilles.
The Song of Achilles is a contemporary-style book written to describe the Greek age.