10 Best Books To Read In 2021 (So Far)

What to read first and what to read second? choosing between books has never been easy. Everyone has a different taste when it comes to reading, but everyone has their best books list to show someone. So, have I. I am a big fan of reading myself and to be honest we readers love sharing our reading lists with others. So here I have rounded up the 10 best books everyone must read in 2021. Because these are just amazing. And you don’t want to miss out on what the world is talking about, do you?

With all this COVID situation going on, we are spending more time indoors than ever before. And, I think, I don’t have to elaborate how boring it can get sometimes to stay locked in your place. Like you are done with your chores, study, work and now what?. Well, that’s where books come in. Books are said to be friends of Human and last year and this year too, it proved for real that books are our friends. Many people who didn’t even pick a book before became book worms in this pandemic. And they are not regretting it.

Like every year 2021 also came with a massive number of book releases, some of which are already trending as Best Sellers or People’s choice. So, without any delay let’s get down to the list of 10 Best Books of 2021, you must read.

Aftershocks, by Nadia Owusu

Nadia Owusu lived a childhood not every child wish to have. Broken families, scattered relations, messed up life and other abnormalities were part of Nadia Owusu’s childhood. And here she uses all those problematic, stateless, and motherless upbringings in this amazing memoir, reflecting how she grows up amid all those chaos. Beautifully and poetically told, with the right choice of words Nadia Owusu has recounted the lasting legacies of pain and trauma in her new book, Aftershock. She said about her book, “I have written for meaning rather than order.”

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders

You can’t stop yourself from praising George Saunders’s astonishing powers to link art with life after reading this amazing book. Saunders has spent two decades of his life teaching creative writing in Syracuse University’s MFA program. In his new book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George has used his decades-long coursework and provide us with a masterclass novel. Through his seven memorable stories by Chekhov, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, he showcased his talent to the whole world and that talent deserves appreciation. A dialogue in his book, “The part of the mind that reads a story is also the part that reads the world,” has my heart. George argues that by becoming better readers we can also become better citizens. For me this deserves to be in 10 Best Books of 2021 list.

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Great Circle, by Maggie Shipstead

This novel will keep you on your couches until you have finished all 600 pages. Maggie Shipstead weaves together stories of two women, years apart, dealing with somewhat similar things in their life. One is Marian Graves, a thrill-seeking female pilot who disappears over Antarctica in 1914 in an attempt to make a record-breaking flight. Second is current world ambitious Hollywood actor, Hadley Baxter, set to play Marian in a biopic movie. The story of both the women intertwined in a beautiful way and astounding way showing how women pave their ways both on the ground and in the sky.

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Sorrowland, by Rivers Solomon

This novel is for every fiction and fantasy lover out there. The story revolves around a woman who escapes her mythic and religious compound with her newborn twins to live in the woods. Teenager Vern after giving birth to twins flees to the woods to shield them from the harms of this magical world. But as time passes, Vern’s body starts changing in ways forcing her to confront her past and the compound she left behind. I won’t give you any other spoilers. Just read this gothic fictional and it will become your favorite out of these 10 best books in 2021.

Klara and The Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Nobel committee in 2017 described Kazuo Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force, which uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” These words are exactly what Ishiguro’s this thrilling work is, which is based on both personal and universal interest. And gives both familiar and futuristic vibes at the same time. In this book, Ishiguro tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with exceptional observational qualities. She waits all day long and watches carefully the people of the world outside the store. And waits impatiently that a customer will buy her soon, for sure.

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Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion

Joan Didion is known as one of the most influential writers of the world. And he needs no introduction, nor does his work. All the Didion fans should not miss this one. Also, for those who are not aware of Joan Didion, this book is the best introduction and an amazing first impression. The story revolves around Gamblers Anonymous meeting, California robber barons, the press, politics, women, and her own self-doubt about it all.

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Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters

Unexpected pregnancies always come with shock and a little bit of drama. And this novel of Torrey Peters has it all when comes to unexpected pregnancy situation. Detransition, the baby is an electrifying novel that revolves around three women, transgender and cisgender, coping with an unexpected pregnancy. This is a bittersweet journey of three women’s lives in the quest to become better parents, family and to examine their identity.

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No One Is Talking About this, by Patricia Lockwood

Well, this novel is actually what everyone is talking about. “Wow. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much reading a book. What an inventive and startling writer…I’m so glad I read this. I really think this book is remarkable.” David Sedaris.

Yes, this book is full of fun and hilarious situations and you will be smiling throughout the read. The book starts with a woman who just recently got prominent for her social media posts starts traveling around the world to meet her adoring fans. And in her journey, she meets this unshakeable conviction that now a vast chorus of voices are giving words to her thoughts. Also, when the real world’s stakes will collide with her absurd ‘Portal’ antics she will observe the world in a whole new way. The most funny among 10 best books of 2021.

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The Push, by Ashley Audrain

This read is for all the psychological thriller fans out there. You will find yourself hooked to this page turning novel. And you won’t stop until you have all the answers. This is about a dramatic and problematic relationship between mother and daughter. About a woman whose life in motherhood is nothing near to what she expected but, worst, it is everything she feared. Missing the real mother daughter relationship in her own childhood Blythe dreams of giving all what she missed to her owen daughter. But when the Violet came into the scene, the tragic event take place and gonna make you question her sanity.

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Libertie, by Katilyn Greenidge

Author of famous, We love you, Charlie Freeman, is back with another epic storyline. This striking book is all bout meaning of freedom. Every page of Libertie is rich, live, vivid and vibrant. And offers the best of historical fiction. The story starts in Civil-war era in Brooklyn and revolves around Libertie, a dark-skinned, free-born daughter of a white doctor-mother.

She is constantly reminded of this fact that she is too dark unlike her mother and that snatches away the privilege of most of the things from her. Also, when married to a young man of Haiti, who promised that she will be equal to him on that Island, she discovers that she is still subordinate to all men there. Join liberty on her struggle journey to find freedom for a black woman of that time and generations to come. For me, it’s the most influential book out of the 10 best books to read in 2021.

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