Aaron's Books
1. Saving Faith
By David Baldacci
2. The Brethren
By John Grisham
3. The Summons
By John Grisham
4. The Last Juror
By John Grisham
5. Calico Joe
By John Grisham
6. The Racketeer
By John Grisham
7. Sackett
By Louis L'Amour
8. The Chronicles of Narnia
By C. S. Lewis
9. Last of the Breed
By Louis L'Amour
10. The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
11. The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday, February 1, 2001
Monday, January 1, 2001
Billy's Books 2021
1. Pandemonium
by Christopher Chilton
by Christopher Chilton
2. F*ckface
by Leah Hampton
3. Tentacle
by Rita Indiana
4. I Might Regret This
by Abbi Jacobson
5. The Ardent Swarm
by Yamen Manai
6. Out East
by John Glynn
7. We Have Always Been Here
by Samra Habib
8. The Fixed Stars
by Molly Wizenberg
9. Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
10. Broken People
by Sam Lansky
11. Funeral Diva
by Pamela Sneed
12. The Princess Affair
by Nell Stark
13. Redefining Realness
by Janet Mock
14. The Mercies
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave
15. Tomboyland
by Melissa Faliveno
16. Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
17. The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
18. Role Models
by John Waters
19. Salt Fish Girl
by Larissa Lai
20. Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
21. Balls
by Chris Edwards
22. The Last Duel
by Eric Jager
23. The One You Want to Marry
by Sophie Santos
24. The City and the Pillar
by Gore Vidal
25. Hola Papi
by John Paul Brammer
26. Perfect on Paper
by Sophie Gonzales
27. Tell Me What You Want
by Justin Lehmiller
28. Southern Discomfort
by Rita Mae Brown
29. One Last Stop
by Casey McQuiston
30. The Wreckage of My Presence
by Casey Wilson
Caitlin's Books 2021
1. Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
2. Empire of Wild
by Cherie Dimaline
3. Trust Exercise
by Susan Choi
4. The City We Became
by N. K. Jemisen
5. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
6. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
7. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
8. Kindred by Octavia Butler
9. Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
(At this point, June 22nd 2021 to be exact, I had a baby. Her name is Phoebe. I did read some books immediately before and for the rest of the year but I didn't get around to posting them here... I'll try to remember what I read and reconstruct below! I'm probably forgetting some, but I'm guessing those books were.... not so memorable)
10. Birthing From Within by Pam England (this book gets an honorable mention as MVB of 2021 for getting me through unmedicated childbirth. If that's on your list of things to do, I highly recommend)
11. Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
12. Karla and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguru
13. Crying in H mart by Michelle Zomer
14. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
15. Somebody's Daughter by Ashley Ford
16. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
17. The Best Most Awful Job Edited by Katherine May
18. How to be an AntiRacist by Ibram X. Kendi
My favorite 5 books this year, in no particular order are:
1. The Book of Form and Emptiness
2. Somebody's Daughter
3. Crying in H Mart
4. The Vanishing Half
5. Salvage the Bones
Brent's Books 2021
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1. The Circling Song
Nawal El Saadawi
2. Taking Care
Joy Williams
3. Jeeves: The Uncollected Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
4. The Matisse Stories
A. S. Byatt
5. Sister Outsider
Audre Lorde
6. The Life and Words of St. Francis of Assisi
Ira Peck
7. The Word Made Flesh
Ian MacFarland
8. Dreamer
Charles Johnson
9. Barabbas
Par Lagerkvist
10. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
11. My Man Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
12. Pandemonium
Christopher Chilton
13. Idol of Nations: Capitalism and Theology
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson
14. Crooked House
Agatha Christie
15. Queer Theology
Linn Tonstad
16. The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
17. The Strength of the Weak: Toward a Christian Feminist Identity
Dorothee Söelle
18. The Weight of Things
Marianne Fritz
19. Lancelot
Walker Percy
20. The Sun and Her Flowers
Rupi Kaur
21. Forever
Mildred Cram
22. Death in Her Hands
Ottessah Mosfegh
23. Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
24. Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology
David Congdon
25. Celtic Fairy Tales
Kate Forrester
26. Theology for Skeptics
Dorothee Soëlle
27. Melville
Jean Giono
28. Treasure Island!!!
Sara Levine
29. The Radiance of the King
Camara Laye
30. Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
31. Mystical Hope
Cynthia Bourgeault
32. Balthasar: A (Very) Critical Introduction
Karen Kilby
33. Americanah
Chimamandah Ngozi Adiche
34. Dodge Rose
Jack Cox
35. Nobody Move!
Denis Johnson
36. Dead to Rites
Sylvia Angus
37. The Prank: The Best of Young Chekov
Anton Chekov, trans. Maria Bloshteyn
38. A Strong Wind in Jamaica
Richard Hughes
39. The White Album
Joan Didion
40. Cluny Brown
Margery Sharp
41. Human Voices
Penelope Fitzgerald
42. On Social Justice
St. Basil the Great
43. Some Do Not
Ford Madox Ford
44. The Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition: From Plato to Denys
Andrew Louth
45. On Wealth and Poverty
St John Chrysostom
46. The Inimitable Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
47. Margaret the First
Danielle Dutton
48. The Well
Elizabeth Jolley
49. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic
50. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
Margalit Fox
51. The Passport
Herta Müller
52. God and Difference
Lin Tonstad
53. The Comforters
Muriel Spark
54. How to Have an Enemy
Melissa Florer-Bixler
55. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church
Keegan Osinzki
56. The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
57. Weather
Jenny Ofill
58. Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
59. Kapo
Alexsander Tišma
60. Distant View of a Minaret
Alifa Rifaat
Manuela Drager
62. So Long a Letter
Mariama Ba
63. Quartet
Jean Rhys
64. Derrida for Beginners
Jim Powell
65. You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
Carina Chocano
66. Generations: A Memoir
Lucille Clifton
67. The Story of my Teeth
Valeria Luiselli
68. The New Prophets of Capital
Nicole Aschoff
69. The Vegetarian
Han Kang
70. The Historical Figure of Jesus
E. P. Sanders
71. Memoirs of a Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou
72. Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Randy's Books 2021
(1) Master of the Senate
by Robert Caro
(2) Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
(3) The Two Towers
by J.R.R. Tolkien
(4) Presidential Leadership in Political Time
by Stephen Skowronek
(5) Return of the King
by J.R.R. Tolkien
(6) The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
(7) Franny and Zooey
by J.D. Salinger
(8) Piranesi
by Susanna Clark
(9) On the Courthouse Lawn
by Sherrilyn Ifill
(10) The Shining
by Stephen King
(11) Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
by Adam Jentleson
(12) The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis
by Martha Nussbaum
(13) America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
by Elizabeth Hinton
(14) The Paris Review, No. 235, Winter 2020
(15) Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
(16) Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
by Daniel James Brown
(17) Lincoln in the Bardot
by George Saunders
(18) Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Miki Brina
(19) Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
by Susanna Clarke
(20) Map & Compass: The Complete Orienteering Handbook
by Bjorn Kjellstrom
(21) The Paris Review, No. 236, Spring 2021
(22) Supreme Disorder
by Ilya Shapiro
(23) Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas
by Jane Meyer & Jill Abramson
(24) Up in Arms
by John Temple
(25) The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
by Carol Anderson
(26) The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line
by Michael Kagan
(27) Policing Immigrants: Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines
by Doris Marie Provine, Monica W. Varsanyi, Paul G. Lewis, & Scott Decker
(28) The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women's Liberation in Mass Incarceration
by Aya Gruber
Christopher's Books 2021
101. An African in Greenland
by Tete-Michel Kpomassie
100. Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
99. Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez
98. The Wife
by Sigrid Undset
97. Lightning Bug
by Donald Harington
96. Agatha of Little Neon
by Claire Luchette
95. The Netanyahus
by Joshua Cohen
94. Divorced, Beheaded, Survived
by Karen Lindsey
93. This Gun for Hire
by Graham Greene
92. Fever Dream
by Samantha Schweblin
91. Season of Migration to the North
by Tayeb Salih
90. The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
89. The Book of Embraces
by Eduardo Galeano
88. Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
87. A Grain of Wheat
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
86. How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue
85. The Rebel Angels
by Robertson Davies
84. The Old Man and Me
by Elaine Dundy
83. The Game-Players of Titan
by Philip K. Dick
82. Harrow
by Joy Williams
81. A Question of Upbringing
by Anthony Powell
80. Vesper Flights
by Helen Macdonald
79. Concluding
by Henry Green
78. Heat and Dust
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
77. The Bridge on the Drina
by Ivo Andric
76. Pillars of Salt
by Fadia Faqir
75. Riders of the Purple Sage
by Zane Grey
74. American Meteor
by Norman Lock
73. Homesick for Another World
by Otessa Moshfegh
72. The Last Brother
by Nathacha Appanah
71. Blindness
by Jose Saramago
70. Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
69. The Dying Grass
by William T. Vollmann
68. Paris Stories
by Mavis Gallant
67. A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oe
66. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
by Lorrie Moore
65. Fences
by August Wilson
64. Severance
by Ling Ma
63. Tarka the Otter
by Henry Williamson
62. How Much of These Hills is Gold
by C. Pam Zhang
61. A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather
60. Dalva
by Jim Harrison
59. Mariette in Ecstasy
by Ron Hansen
58. A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
57. The Book of Eels
by Patrik Svensson
56. Parakeet
by Marie-Helene Bertino
55. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
54. The Story of My Teeth
by Valeria Luiselli
53. Angelica's Grotto
by Russell Hoban
52. Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy
51. Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
50. The Hearing Trumpet
by Leonora Carrington
49. Other Voices, Other Rooms
by Truman Capote
48. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
by Jenn Shapland
47. The Dwarf
by Par Lagerkvist
46. The House Gun
by Nadine Gordimer
45. Obabakoak
by Bernardo Atxaga
44. No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
43. Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
42. The Corner That Held Them
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
41. Kingfisher
by Ildiko Szabo
40. Treasure Island!!!
by Sara Levine
39. Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov
38. The Walking Tour
by Kathryn Davis
37. Margery Kempe
by Robert Gluck
36. I'm Dying Laughing
by Christina Stead
35. Dodge Rose
by Jack Cox
34. The Acolyte
by Thea Astley
33. Stream System
by Gerald Murnane
32. The Well
by Elizabeth Jolley
31. Happy Valley
by Patrick White
30. Reality and Dreams
by Muriel Spark
29. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
by Breece D'J Pancake
28. Caleb's Crossing
by Geraldine Brooks
27. Pew
by Catherine Lacey
26. Paterson
by William Carlos Williams
25. The Moons of Jupiter
by Alice Munro
24. His Master's Voice
by Stanislaw Lem
23. Zuleikha
by Guzel Yakhina
22. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
21. A Coin in Nine Hands
by Marguerite Yourcenar
20. The Sword of the Lictor
by Gene Wolfe
19. Bear
by Marian Engel
18. The Rings of Saturn
by W. G. Sebald
17. The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
16. High Magick
by Damien Echols
15. Disappearing Earth
by Julia Phillips
14. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
13. Girls Against God
by Jenny Hval
12. The Laughing Monsters
by Denis Johnson
11. Empire of Wild
by Cherie Dimaline
10. Miko Kings
by LeAnne Howe
9. White Magic
by Elissa Washuta
8. The Way to Rainy Mountain
by N. Scott Momaday
7. The Night Watchman
by Louise Erdrich
6. Black Elk Speaks
by John G. Neihardt
5. Crooked Hallelujah
by Kelli Jo Ford
4. Indian Horse
by Richard Wagamese
3. Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God
by Kaitlin B. Curtice
2. Winter in the Blood
by James Welch
1. Antarctic Navigation
by Elizabeth Arthur
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