All the Books I Read in 2021

Let me start out by saying that I didn't have a set goal or idea of how much I wanted to read last year. I just knew I wanted to read more than I was; more page-turning, less mindless scrolling on my phone. I thought by chronicling every book I read, it would keep me motivated to read more, and to my surprise, it actually did! I ended up finishing 120 books, which means I averaged about 10+ books a month. (I don't know where I got the time, either, so don't ask.)

I thought it may be fun for fellow book-nerds to see everything I read. I'm going to bold titles that really impacted my year, too, in case you're curious.

Happy reading!

Book Log 2021

• January

  • Voyage of the Basilisk - Marie Brennan

  • A Year of Biblical Womanhood - Rachel Held Evans

  • Group - Christie Tate

  • Of mess and moxie - Jen Hatmaker

  • Evolving in Monkeytown - Rachel Held Evans

  • How to be Parisian Wherever you are - Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline de Maigret, Sophie Mas

  • Labyrinth of Drakes - Marie Brennan

  • Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel

  • Within the Sanctuary of Wings - Marie Brennan

  • Everything is Figureoutable - Marie Forleo

• February

  • Four Seconds - Laura Andrade

  • The forever sea - Joshua Johnson

  • Outlawed - Anna North

  • 7 - Jen Hatmaker

  • Interrupted - Jen Hatmaker

• March

  • Rhythm of Prayer - Sarah Bessey et all

  • At Least You’ll be Married to a Doctor - Jordyn Hagar

  • Freely and Lightly - Emily Lex

  • Mudhouse Sabbath - Emily Winner

  • Cozy - Isabel Gillies

  • Outer order, inner calm - Gretchen Rubin

  • Beatrix Potter’s Garden (biography section) - Marta McDowell

  • An Altar in the world - Barbara Brown Taylor

  • Too much and never enough - Mary Trump PHD

  • The knowledge of the holy - AW Tozer

  • Serve God, Save the Planet - Matthew Sleeth

  • Rhythms of Renewal - Rebekah Lyons

  • Nancy Drew: The Ringmaster's Secret - Carolyn Keene

  • I don’t like my neck - Nora Ephron

• April

  • Learning to Walk in the Dark - Barbara Brown Taylor

  • The very good gospel - Lisa Sharon Harper

  • Better than Before - Gretchen Rubin

  • Three women - Lisa Taddeo

  • The Hunting Wives - May Cobb

  • My time at the White House - JB West

  • Classic Style - Kate Schelter

  • What makes love last - Dr. Jon Gottman

  • It’s not supposed to be this way - Lysa Terkeurst

  • You do you - Sarah Knight

  • Apricot Memoirs - Tess Guinery

  • Where’d you go Bernadette - Maria Semple

  • Uninvited - Lysa Terkeurst

  • Nancy Drew: the Mystery of the Ivory Charm - Carolyn Keene

• May

  • Jesus, my father, the CIA, and Me - Ian Cron

  • Leaving church - Barbara Brown Taylor

  • Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey

  • Money Secrets of the Amish - Lorilee Craker

  • Financial Peace - Dave Ramsey

  • Americas First Daughter - Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie

  • Boundaries in marriage - Dr. Cloud and Dr. Townsend

• June

  • Good morning, Monster - Catherine Gildiner

  • In the Middle of the Mess - Sheila Walsh

  • The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim M. Richardson

  • Inspired — Rachel Held Evans

  • Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

  • The Shift — Colby Martin

  • Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenridge

  • Outside the Lines — Mihee Kim-Kort

  • The Road Back to You — Ian Morgan Cron

  • Turning Darkness into Light — Marie Brennan

  • Cherish — Gary Thomas

  • The tricky art of co-existing — Sandi Toksvig

  • Painted stories: vintage decorating - Rachel Ashwell

  • 1000+ Little Habits of Happy, Successful Relationships by Marc and Angel Chernoff

• July

  • Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott

  • this is going to hurt - Adam Kay

  • Stitches - Anne Lamott

  • Plan B - Anne Lamott

  • Fierce Fairytales - Nikita Gill

  • The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

  • Hallelujah Anyway - Anne Lamott

  • The very good things - Martha Stewart

  • Forever chic - Tish Jett

  • Grace Eventually - Anne Lamotts

  • Wearing God - Lauren Winner

  • Eat a Peach - David Chang

• August

  • Adamant - Lisa Bevere

  • Love warrior - glennon Doyle

  • Little book of Cottagecore - Emily Kent

  • Little Book of Life Skills - Erin Zammett Ruddy

  • Braving the Wilderness - Brené Brown

  • The Homecraft Book: A 1940s Bestselling Domestic Guidebook - Ann Hathaway

  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

  • The Woman whose mouth I lit on fire - Anonymous

  • Tips and Tricks and Life Hacks from the Great Depression Era that We Can Use Today - Deborah Harold

• September

  • And then there were nun - Jane Christmas

  • Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

  • Untamed - Glennon Doyle

  • Wild Game - Adrienne Boudeur

  • Vintage Makeup - Jane Harding

  • What kind of witch are you? - Julie Wilder

  • Without rival - Lisa Bevere

  • 1001 Ways to Save Money - Annie Yang

• October

  • Found - Micha Boyett

  • The Interior Castle - St. Teresa of Avila

  • Classic Household Hints: Over 500 Old and New Tips for a Happier Home - Susan Waggoner

  • Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead

  • Earthly Good - Rev. Martha Sterne

  • What the most successful people do before breakfast - Laura Vanderkam

  • Hollow Kingdom - Kira Buxton

  • Still - Lauren Winner

  • Things in Jars - Jess Kidd

  • How to stop time - Matt Haig

  • The silent patient - Alex Michaelides

• November

  • The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock - Imogen Gowar

  • Selected poems of Anne Sexton

  • Pleasers - Dr. Kevin Leman

  • Suck in your stomach, and put some color on - Shellie Rushing

  • Women, Work, and the Art of Savoir Faire - Mireille Guiliano

• December

  • Pastrix - Nadia Bolz-Weber

  • My Body - Emily Ratajowski

  • The French Beauty Solution - Mathilde Thomas

  • The Beauty in the Breaking - Dr. Michele Harper

  • Laetitia Todd and the Case of the Wandering Scholar - Kate Saunders

  • The Lady in the Garden - Katherine Schellman

  • An Appeal to the World: the Way to Peace in a Time of Division - the Dalai Lama

  • A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

  • Being Beautiful (Anthology)

  • Somebody’s Daughter - Ashley C Ford

  • Unmentionable - Therese ONeill

2021 Total: 120 Books!!