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