The Hating Game by Sally Thorne…This was a surprisingly sweet and hot book!Ĩ.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman…read the audiobook and laughed out loud and grabbed my heart so many times. The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang….sweetest book ever! I now read all of her books!ĥ. I was surprised by how interesting it was! I learned a lot.Ĥ. The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson…this book was part non-fiction and part memoir. Really makes you crave a grilled cheese sandwich!ģ. Tweet Cute by Emma Lord….a YA spin on You’ve Got Mail. Merry Christmas, Baby by Donna Kauffman….a short story collective full of Christmas stories and they get right to the romance!Ģ.

So far I’ve read 263 books in 2021! These are my top 25 that I have enjoyed the most!ġ. If you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I would love to hear your favorite books of the year in the comments section.Īll books featured here were chosen because I loooove them. And I read the extremely useful but terribly titled book Give Your Speech, Change the World at the recommendation of a friend and would highly recommend it for anyone who regularly gives presentations or speeches. Ron Lieber’s book The Price You Pay for College came out in January, just as Will and I were in the final stages of deciding college plans with our then-high school senior. I’d like to call out two additional books that I read for purely practical reasons but are too good not to mention, especially because they may meet some of you where you are right now. (Because you always ask: yes, I absolutely log re-reads in my reading journal.) I will say that revisiting favorite books is a regular practice of mine, and one that greatly enriches my reading life. I made the difficult decision not to include re-reads on my Best Books of the Year list. (In August, I shifted from my old reading journal to the new My Reading Life book journal, and am thoroughly enjoying using that now.) Despite my best efforts at record-keeping, I’m probably forgetting a favorite here, because I always do. I track my titles in my reading journal, and put a simple little star by especially noteworthy titles. For this year’s favorites list, I once again prioritized books with staying power and emotional resonance ones with admirable craft, that I enjoyed reading, and that I found myself returning to in my mind-even long after I finished the book.

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