Tune into this episode for a quick recap of the holiday season in tiny town, a review of Amy's Best of 2021 book list, and New Year's resolutions. Happy New Year!
Amy's Best of 2021 Books
Lists in no particular order
Fiction Top Ten:1. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Mr. Rochester by Sarah Shoemaker
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Thrillers Top Ten:
Pretty Things by Janelle Brown
His & Hers by Alice Feeney
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Falling by T. J. Newman
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Last One by Alexandra Oliva
Non Fiction Top 5
1.These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Finding Freedom by Erin French
Food Saved Me by Danielle Walker
Tinsel by Hank Stuever
Books I’m Looking Forward To in 2022:
Reckless Girls by Rachel Hawkins - January
Violeta by Isabel Allende - January
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu - January
Jane and the Year Without a Summer by Stephanie Barron #14 - February
Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead by Elle Cosimano - February
This Might Hurt by Stephanie Wrobel - February
All the Queen’s Men by S.J. Bennett - March
Woman on Fire by Lisa Barr - March
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd - March
The Fell by Sarah Moss - March
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel - April
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan - April
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz - May
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill - May
The Lioness by Chris Bohjalian - May
The Summer Place by Jennifer Weiner - May
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi - May
Gilt by Jamie Brenner - June
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix - July
Prince Harry’s As-Yet-Untitled Memoir, Pub Date TBA