We asked what was on your 2021 reading list. You answered.
Our readers singled out 25 titles they want to pick up this year.
Earlier this month, local booksellers shared their picks for the books that should not be missed in 2021.
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Now, Boston.com readers are sharing the titles they’re planning to pick up in the new year, and the selections range from classics to bestsellers to works anticipated in 2021.
Several readers shared they’re looking forward to going back and reading some classics.
One person said they plan to pick up poetry from Rumi and fellow Sufi Yunus Emre. One Boston.com reader said they’re going to read “anything fiction (fun)” in 2021, while more than a few said the recently-released memoir from former President Barack Obama is at the top of their reading list.
Below, the 25 titles organized by genre and publication date that Boston.com readers say they’re looking forward to reading in 2021
Fiction
- “Unti Silva” by Daniel Silva (July 2021)
- “The Lights of Sugarberry Cove” by Heather Webber (July 2021)
- “The Dictionary of Lost Words” by Pip Williams (April 2021)
- “Win” by Harlan Coben (March 2021)
- “Band of Sisters” by Lauren Willig (March 2021)
- “Tropic of Stupid” by Tim Dorsey (Jan. 2021)
- “Into the Light” by David Webber and Chris Kennedy (Jan. 2021)
- “The Mighty Oak” by Jeff W. Bens (Sept. 2020)
- “Hamnet” by Maggie O’Farrell (July 2020)
- “Last Tang Standing” by Lauren Ho (June 2020)
- “Shuggie Bain” by Douglas Stuart (Feb. 2020)
- “Flights” by Olga Tokarczuk (Aug. 2018)
- “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr (May 2014)
- “We Were Liars” by E. Lockhart (May 2014)
- “The Forty Rules of Love” by Elif Shafak (Feb. 2010)
- “Second Violin” by John Lawton (Nov. 2008)
- “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein (1966)
- “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf (May 1927)
- “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas (1844)
- “Emma” by Jane Austen (1815)
Nonfiction
- “Untold Stories of the Boston Irish” by Peter F. Stevens (Feb. 2021)
- “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama (Nov. 2020)
- “The New Jim Crow” by Michelle Alexander (Jan. 2020)
- “How To Be An Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi (Aug. 2019)
- “Poor Economics” by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (March 2012)
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