Deliberate Freelancer #104: Best Books of 2021 So Far—and New Releases This Fall
Today’s episode is all about books and reading! I talk book podcasts and tell you about a great book list app. I also recommend the seven best fiction books and one best nonfiction book I’ve read so far in 2021.
My new favorite book podcasts, which I also support on Patreon to get the extra podcast content, are:
(from a bookstore called The Bookshelf in Thomasville, Georgia)
(Love their Indie Press list Patreon partnership with Fabled Bookshop & Cafe in Waco, Texas)
I’m also a huge fan of the Book of the Month Club.
The app I use to track my books: Reading List
The best books I’ve read so far in 2021:
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Sea Wife by Amity Gage
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins
Nonfiction:
The Premonition by Michael Lewis
A disappointing book of 2021:
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Worst book I’ve read so far in 2021:
The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks
My most anticipated books for the second half of 2021:
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Falling by T.J. Newman
False Witness by Karin Slaughter
A few more books that are getting great reviews this year:
Olympus, Texas by Stacey Swann
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
If you love the following authors, here are new books coming out this fall:
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander series) by Diana Gabaldon
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
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Related study:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0149206319829823
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