Pleasure Reading 2021

What I read this year:
*reviews (mostly from the New York Times) linked*

• Huma Abedin, Both/And (2021)

• Will Smith, Will (2021): My first (and ultimate) celebrity crush.

• Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl (2021)

• Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion (2012): I haven’t shut up about this book in months. It’s brilliant.

• Alexis Schaitkin, Saint X (2020): Stunning debut.

• Christopher Buckley, Make Russia Great Again (2020): Of course Buckley, the ultimate Washington satiririst, had to write a Trump novel. But it’s hilarious and really feels original.

• Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (2019)

• Barack Obama, A Promised Land (2020)

• Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face (2020): I love reading SNL memoirs.

• Lisa Genova, Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting (2021)

• Sue Miller, Monogamy (2020)

• Matt Haig, The Midnight Library (2020)

• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009): I was a bit underwhelmed, truth be told. I’ll read the others eventually.

• Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth (1990): Still relevant.

• Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age (2019)

• Thrillers:

  • Lucy Foley, The Hunting Party (2019) and The Guest List (2020)

  • Kimberly McCreight, A Good Marriage (2020)

  • Ruth Ware, The Turn of the Key (2019)

  • Michael Palmer, Extreme Measures (1997)

  • Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, You Are Not Alone (2020)