My favorite books of 2021

Happy New Year! These are the books I enjoyed reading the most in 2021. You can find the list below this collage.

Listed by genre:

Poetry

• Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

• Call Us What We Carry: Poems by Amanda Gorman

• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans

Graphic Novels

• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (Middle Grade)

• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal (Dystopian Comedy)

• Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman (Romance)

• Mooncakes by Wendy Xu and Suzanne Walker (Magical Romance)

Nonfiction

• The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown (Memoir)

• Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo (History)

• Transgender History by Susan Stryker (History)

• Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed: 15 Voices from the Latinx Diaspora edited by Saraciea J. Fennell (Mini Memoirs)

Fiction

• Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (Adulthood)

Young Adult

• Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon (Magical Romance)

• We Set the Dark on Fire duology by Tehlor Kay Mejia (Fantasy)

• When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez (Poetry/Novel)

• Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley (Mystery/Coming-of-age)

• This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (Fantasy)

• How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland (Coming-of-age/Magical Romance)

• Raybearer duology by Jordan Ifueko (Fantasy)

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Historical Fiction)

• Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron (Fantasy)

• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Fantasy)

Middle Grade

• Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Historical Fiction

• Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa

• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

• Book of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-Sharma

Romance

• The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa

• Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

• Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

• The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

• Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

• Amor Actually edited by Adriana Herrera

Mystery/Thriller

• Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark (Dark)

• Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala (Cozy)

Fantasy/Sci-Fi

• Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

• The Deep by Rivers Solomon