My Year in Books 2021
I have been reading (and rereading) a lot of books this year because of the pandemic. I made a list not only to share my reading habits but also to hold myself accountable to continue reading. I always say that my new year’s resolution every year is to read more books, but this year I focused on reading more books for enjoyment!
My favorite books this year were How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith and You Don’t Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker.
| Island People: The Caribbean and the World | Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
| Caste | Isabel Wilkerson |
| The Color of Water | James McBride |
| Revolting Prostitutes | Molly Smith and Juno Mac |
| How The Word Was Passed | Clint Smith |
| Hood Feminism | Mikki Kendall |
| The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America | Carol Anderson |
| Caul Baby | Morgan Jerkins |
| 400 Souls | Ibram X. Kendi/Keisha Blain |
| State of Emergency | Tamika Mallory |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris |
| Island Queen | Vanessa Riley |
| Come Fly The World | Julia Cooke |
| You Don’t Belong Here | Elizabeth Becker |
| Open Water | Caleb Azumah Nelson |
| The Eternal Audience of One | Remy Ngamije |
| Confident Women | Tori Telfer |
| Names of New York | Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama |
| When the Reckoning Comes | Latanya McQueen |
| Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” | Kim Todd |
| When Women Invented Television | Jennifer Keishin Armstrong |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| The Secret History of Home Economics | Danielle Dreilinger |
| The Personal Librarian | Heather Terrell and Victoria Christopher Murray |
| There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America | Amy Argetsinger |
| Imperial Intimacies | Hazel Carbey |
| An Autobiography | Angela Davis |
| The Barbizon | Paulina Bren |
| Revolutions | Hannah Ross |
| Female Husbands | Jen Manion |
| Holy Bible |