Top Five Books of 2021

1

Piranesi

door Susanna Clarke

5,728 leden

281 besprekingen

4.2

24 Members: bookwoman84, anglemark, raidergirl3, jonathankws, LDVoorberg, bookmess, kaida46, ChrisMG, souloftherose, RGilbraith, Andrew.Beck, OphelieDepoortere, KWSVERNON, nonil, Mairsiedoats, timetunnel, pbeagan, drbobingv, Boand, JulieStielstra, JTolson1970, nankan, AlexThurman, Craftybilda
Verklaringen: kaida46: I've never read anything like this, great fantasy, creative, unusual,descriptive, and an enjoyable ride.
Boand: The most original book I’ve read this year! A truly spellbinding, intriguing and tricksy narrative that never fails to draw you in to the magic of the narrator’s journey. The finale is totally unexpected, shocking and completely blindsided me. This is a book that I will definitely be reading again and that is something I very rarely do. I look forward to being engrossed once again in this glorious fantasy.

2

Hamnet

door Maggie O'Farrell

4,411 leden

232 besprekingen

4.2

15 Members: holly_golightly, rarm, charl08, Micheller7, bugaderes39, njinthesun, sturlington, ChrisMG, RGilbraith, Andrew.Beck, Mairsiedoats, Boand, steller0707, nankan, Craftybilda

3

The Four Winds

door Kristin Hannah

4,016 leden

187 besprekingen

4.1

12 Members: yesyvonne, dara85, ecb06c, ChrisMG, RGilbraith, KimberlyCombs, RetiredProf, AAAO, Scraphorse, JTolson1970, nankan, Craftybilda

4

Klara en de Zon

door Kazuo Ishiguro

4,955 leden

237 besprekingen

3.9

11 Members: ecb06c, jeanned, Milda-TX, sturlington, ChrisMG, KatyBee, AmourFou, KWSVERNON, dianeham, WendyRobyn, nankan

5

Shuggie Bain

door Douglas Stuart

2,485 leden

128 besprekingen

4.2

10 Members: sipthereader, shaunie, FAMeulstee, njinthesun, skyrad43, gypsysmom, KimberlyCombs, Rchlwtsn, nankan, Craftybilda

6

Circe

door Madeline Miller

12,395 leden

480 besprekingen

½ 4.3

8 Members: ecb06c, ChrisMG, katemcangus, Andrew.Beck, Mairsiedoats, steller0707, jackplotkin, Sarmarhar

7

The House in the Cerulean Sea

door TJ Klune

6,248 leden

327 besprekingen

½ 4.3

8 Members: SimoneA, yoyogod, Milda-TX, OphelieDepoortere, KWSVERNON, KimberlyCombs, Brandy1411, Sarmarhar

8

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

door Robin Wall Kimmerer

4,142 leden

118 besprekingen

½ 4.5

7 Members: aprille, Euryale, ecb06c, raidergirl3, norabelle414, skyrad43, Mairsiedoats

9

Wolkenstad

door Anthony Doerr

3,765 leden

172 besprekingen

4.2

7 Members: mooingzelda, bookmess, RGilbraith, Andrew.Beck, Jjean7, debann6354, KimberlyCombs

10

Weg naar huis

door Yaa Gyasi

5,602 leden

280 besprekingen

½ 4.3

6 Members: charl08, ahef1963, KimberlyCombs, shedgeco, steller0707, BEMR595

11

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

door Patrick Radden Keefe

2,383 leden

113 besprekingen

½ 4.4

6 Members: charl08, vwinsloe, AmourFou, Laurenthewise1, AAAO, JorgeousJotts

12

The Prophets

door Robert Jones Jr.

829 leden

26 besprekingen

4.2

5 Members: Andrew.Beck, Jjean7, ManWithAnAgenda, sqr3cls3, charlesloflin

13

The Once and Future Witches

door Alix E. Harrow

2,423 leden

84 besprekingen

4.1

5 Members: lkmiller, edgewood, lscan2, Cora-R, Sarmarhar

14

Matrix

door Lauren Groff

1,637 leden

91 besprekingen

3.9

5 Members: zhejw, N1na, KatyBee, RGilbraith, markhopp

15

Kafka op het strand

door Haruki Murakami

18,091 leden

467 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: knerd.knitter, ecb06c, bookmess, KWSVERNON
Verklaringen: knerd.knitter: This year I discovered a love for the books of Haruki Murakami; I have yet to read one of his books that I don’t like, but this has been my favorite so far!

16

Vlucht

door Charlotte McConaghy

1,142 leden

75 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: yesyvonne, njinthesun, Laurenthewise1, Newtonian7

17

A Town Called Solace

door Mary Lawson

490 leden

31 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: charl08, terran, bookmess, dianeham

18

Miss Benson's Beetle

door Rachel Joyce

954 leden

76 besprekingen

4

4 Members: bearette24, mdexter, HelenGress, Tosta

19

The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

door Becky Chambers

1,379 leden

64 besprekingen

½ 4.4

4 Members: tardis, charl08, jeanned, Brandy1411

20

De Lincoln Highway

door Amor Towles

3,389 leden

171 besprekingen

4.1

4 Members: kristenl, edparks, cmtl, Laurenthewise1

21

All Systems Red

door Martha Wells

5,538 leden

346 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: kyp, nx74defiant, Charon07

22

De jongen, de mol, de vos en het paard

door Charlie Mackesy

3,272 leden

128 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: perennialreader, Rchlwtsn, Scraphorse

23

The Only Good Indians

door Stephen Graham Jones

2,230 leden

100 besprekingen

3.9

4 Members: norabelle414, skyrad43, sturlington, sqr3cls3

24

Deacon King Kong

door James McBride

1,678 leden

96 besprekingen

½ 4.3

4 Members: bjappleg8, jeanned, skyrad43, Mairsiedoats

25

Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

door Diana Gabaldon

1,573 leden

35 besprekingen

4.2

3 Members: bookmess, Tess_W, Laurenthewise1

26

Kruispunt

door Jonathan Franzen

1,352 leden

62 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: edparks, KatyBee, JuliaMaria

27

West with Giraffes

door Lynda Rutledge

978 leden

57 besprekingen

½ 4.3

3 Members: guido47, perennialreader, dianeham

28

Jaag je ploeg over de botten van de doden

door Olga Tokarczuk

2,774 leden

141 besprekingen

3.9

3 Members: holly_golightly, Capybara_99, nonil

29

A Children's Bible

door Lydia Millet

876 leden

45 besprekingen

½ 3.7

3 Members: zhejw, jeanned, Laurenthewise1

30

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family

door Robert Kolker

1,518 leden

91 besprekingen

4.2

3 Members: Milda-TX, IsolaBlue, vwinsloe

31

De testamenten

door Margaret Atwood

6,179 leden

225 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: SimoneA, rretzler, Rchlwtsn

32

Een klein leven

door Hanya Yanagihara

7,566 leden

328 besprekingen

4.1

3 Members: SimoneA, FAMeulstee, KWSVERNON

33

De grote Gatsby

door F. Scott Fitzgerald

72,305 leden

1,170 besprekingen

3.8

3 Members: hipdeep, Rchlwtsn, AAAO
Verklaringen: hipdeep: In the audio book version released by Planet Money - which is not as good as if professional actors had done it, but was a darn nice way to celebrate Public Domain Day nonetheless.

34

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

door Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

409 leden

9 besprekingen

3.8

2 Members: Storeetllr, kara.shamy
Verklaringen: Storeetllr: More than *just* astrophysics.

35

One Last Stop

door Casey McQuiston

2,648 leden

84 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, aspirit

36

Interior Chinatown

door Charles Yu

1,407 leden

87 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: greeneyed_ives, sqr3cls3

37

Project Hail Mary

door Andy Weir

6,009 leden

341 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: Storeetllr, Cora-R

38

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941

door William L. Shirer

1,521 leden

18 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: CarltonC, MichaelHodges
Verklaringen: CarltonC: History brilliantly recorded in the making, with the immediacy and urgency of journalism, which you don’t encounter in academic history books.

39

The Chosen and the Beautiful

door Nghi Vo

819 leden

29 besprekingen

½ 3.7

2 Members: Aquila, ablachly

40

Velvet Was the Night

door Silvia Moreno-Garcia

818 leden

26 besprekingen

½ 3.5

2 Members: avanders, noveltea

41

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

door Alison Bechdel

561 leden

25 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: libraryhead, Dilara86

42

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency

door Tove Ditlevsen

435 leden

14 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: IsolaBlue, JuliaMaria

43

Station elf

door Emily St. John Mandel

11,756 leden

780 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: Edward, sipthereader

44

The Midnight Bargain

door C. L. Polk

609 leden

41 besprekingen

3.8

2 Members: tardis, lkmiller

45

Ten oosten van Eden

door John Steinbeck

23,442 leden

424 besprekingen

½ 4.4

2 Members: dhm, chwiggy
Verklaringen: dhm: Once read, couldn’t not be on the list.

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You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

door Janelle Shane

330 leden

15 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: timspalding, AAAO

47

Wolf Hall

door Hilary Mantel

13,528 leden

652 besprekingen

4

2 Members: rhian_of_oz, markhopp

48

Het onzichtbare leven van Addie LaRue

door V. E. Schwab

8,897 leden

295 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: toups, Brandy1411

49

Meisje, vrouw, anders

door Bernardine Evaristo

3,205 leden

133 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: Minthe, holly_golightly

50

Het Derde Rijk Deel 3 Oorlog

door Richard J. Evans

1,321 leden

28 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: timspalding, MichaelHodges

51

Fight Night

door Miriam Toews

501 leden

31 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: starfishian, JenMDB

52

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

door John Green

2,139 leden

74 besprekingen

½ 4.4

2 Members: Emma.June.Lyon, Charon07

53

Across the Green Grass Fields

door Seanan McGuire

641 leden

50 besprekingen

4

2 Members: Storeetllr, ManWithAnAgenda

54

The Every

door Dave Eggers

485 leden

26 besprekingen

½ 3.7

2 Members: aethercowboy, AlexThurman
Verklaringen: aethercowboy: A worth follow up to The Circle, showing the dangers and dystopia of letting the tech giants be our gods.

55

Charles Fourier: The Visionary and His World

door Jonathan Beecher

42 leden

1 bespreking

5

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, MichaelHodges
Verklaringen: paradoxosalpha: A magisterial intellectual biography of a precocious and neglected social theorist.

56

Waterschapsheuvel

door Richard Adams

24,933 leden

472 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: mattries37315, AAAO

57

Kleurenblind

door Trevor Noah

6,148 leden

361 besprekingen

½ 4.4

2 Members: skyrad43, rretzler

58

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

door Alix E. Harrow

3,382 leden

172 besprekingen

4

2 Members: knerd.knitter, SimoneA
Verklaringen: knerd.knitter: This book is a beautiful, fantastical journey…

59

Het verhaal van de dienstmaagd

door Margaret Atwood

42,411 leden

1,142 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: kristilabrie, steller0707

60

Fugitive Telemetry

door Martha Wells

1,946 leden

122 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: tardis, Storeetllr
Verklaringen: Storeetllr: Murderbot. No need to say more.

61

The Sun Down Motel

door Simone St. James

1,782 leden

116 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: avanders, Brandy1411

62

The Echo Wife

door Sarah Gailey

991 leden

83 besprekingen

½ 3.7

2 Members: bookwoman84, zhejw

63

Tot in de hemel

door Richard Powers

5,390 leden

244 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: kaixo, sipthereader

64

De moordclub (op donderdag)

door Richard Osman

5,386 leden

266 besprekingen

3.9

2 Members: raidergirl3, Julie_in_the_Library

65

The Nature of Fragile Things

door Susan Meissner

496 leden

36 besprekingen

4.2

2 Members: Micheller7, bookofsecrets

66

Bryant and May: London Bridge Is Falling Down

door Christopher Fowler

118 leden

5 besprekingen

½ 4.3

2 Members: MichaelHodges, Boand
Verklaringen: Boand: A brilliantly told thriller in the Bryant & May canon. Fowler has honed his narrative and characters to a truly sublime level in this addictive page turner. Possibly the last in the series, or perhaps not, the secrets revealed about London and the detective duo continue to enthral and surprise.

67

A Thousand Ships

door Natalie Haynes

1,587 leden

48 besprekingen

4.1

2 Members: zhejw, mdexter

68

In de ban van de ring

door J. R. R. Tolkien

50,479 leden

451 besprekingen

½ 4.5

Member: RobtCM

69

Voor wie de klok luidt

door Ernest Hemingway

19,005 leden

186 besprekingen

3.9

Member: RBeffa

70

Een wankel evenwicht

door Rohinton Mistry

9,173 leden

255 besprekingen

½ 4.4

Member: Milda-TX

71

Zomer van overvloed

door Barbara Kingsolver

9,004 leden

196 besprekingen

4

Member: JenMDB

72

Bleek vuur

door Vladimir Nabokov

7,957 leden

140 besprekingen

4.2

Member: bjappleg8

73

Het boek Henry

door Hilary Mantel

6,943 leden

346 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: rhian_of_oz

74

Lincoln in de bardo

door George Saunders

5,806 leden

336 besprekingen

3.9

Member: Minthe

75

The Duke and I

door Julia Quinn

5,592 leden

186 besprekingen

3.8

Member: craso

76

The Dutch House

door Ann Patchett

4,581 leden

275 besprekingen

4.1

Member: sturlington

77

Endymion

door Dan Simmons

4,449 leden

64 besprekingen

4

Member: rretzler

78

De derde politieman

door Flann O'Brien

4,244 leden

123 besprekingen

4

Member: paradoxosalpha
Verklaringen: paradoxosalpha: A darkly funny novel of cosmic justice writ very small. I hate it when that happens.

79

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

door Isabel Wilkerson

4,226 leden

163 besprekingen

½ 4.4

Member: Euryale

80

De haas met de amberkleurige ogen

door Edmund De Waal

3,675 leden

158 besprekingen

4

Member: anglemark

81

The Dark Forest

door Cixin Liu

3,533 leden

127 besprekingen

4.1

Member: dhm
Verklaringen: dhm: All three parts of the trilogy are amazing — this middle book I enjoyed especially.

82

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

door Norman Maclean

3,147 leden

61 besprekingen

4.2

Member: toups

83

Firekeeper's Daughter

door Angeline Boulley

2,561 leden

113 besprekingen

½ 4.3

Member: Emma.June.Lyon

84

Grant

door Ron Chernow

2,323 leden

61 besprekingen

½ 4.5

Member: mattries37315

85

All Clear

door Connie Willis

2,289 leden

151 besprekingen

4.1

Member: cbl_tn

86

Wij tegen jullie

door Fredrik Backman

1,914 leden

113 besprekingen

4.2

Member: LDVoorberg
Verklaringen: LDVoorberg: hats off to Neil Smith (translator) for helping capture the hope and humanity amidst darkness and despair in this novel that so beautifully balances the reality of a community

87

Zoals de wind waait

door Jodi Picoult

1,698 leden

131 besprekingen

3.8

Member: LyndaInOregon
Verklaringen: LyndaInOregon: Picoult's readers know by now to expect a twist at the end. But this one was so unexpected it literally left me with my mouth hanging open. On re-reading, however, the clues were there.

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