Remember when we were young and full of hope for the new year, and we made those lofty lists of goals…? Yeah, me too. My goals are not going great to be quite honest and I’ve mostly given up by now, but at least one of them is tackled! I finished my 21 in 2021 list yesterday, and here’s how it went!
Loki: Where Mischief Lies - Mackenzi Lee –> 3.5/5(February)
The Gilded Wolves (The Gilded Wolves #1) - Roshani Chokshi –> 3.5/5(July)
Diary of a Newlywed Poet - Juan Ramón Jiménez –> 2.5/5(February)
Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist #1) - Renee Ahdieh –> 3/5(August)
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers Who Helped Win World War II - Liza Mundy –> 4/5(November)
In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway –> 1/5(April)
Queen of Air and Darkness (The Dark Artifices #3) - Cassandra Clare
The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende –> 3.5/5(March)
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier –> 3/5(December)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream - William Shakespeare –> 3/5(May)
The Valiant (The Valiant #1) - Lesley Livingston –> 3/5(November)
Jane Austen at Home - Lucy Worsley –> 4.5/5(July)
The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo #4) - Rick Riordan –> 3.5/5(August)
The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo #5) - Rick Riordan –> 3.5/5(September)
Making a Tinderbox (The Tinderbox Tales #1) - Emma Sterner-Radley –> 2/5(March)
Night and Silence (October Daye #12) - Seanan McGuire –> 3/5(April)
Ghosts of the Shadow Market - Cassandra Clare
El infinito en un junco. La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo - Irene Vallejo –> 5/5(April)
The Great Passage - Shion Miura –> 2/5 (March)
Tooth and Claw - Jo Walton –> 2.5/5(February)
21 Lessons for the 21st Century - Yuval Noah Harari –>4/5(September)
Cassandra Clare’s are crossed off because I decided around October or so to finally be honest with myself and admit that I wasn’t going to read any more Shadowhunter books. I didn’t technically read them, but still: crossed off the list, two less books!
Ten books we’re excited about that are coming out this month! The Winter Over by Matthew Iden February 1 Each winter the crew at the Shackleton South Pole Research Facility faces nine months of isolation, round-the-clock darkness, and one of the most extreme climates on the planet. For thirty-something mechanical engineer Cass Jennings, Antarctica offers an opportunity to finally escape the guilt…
Teen Vogue has done it again: It has given us a new informative article of relevance to trans and nonbinary people. This time Charlie Jane Anders is looking at young adult books by, for and/or about queer people.
Trans and/or non-binary authors like Akwaeke Emezi, Cory McCarthy, and Kacen Callendar have been taking young-adult fiction by storm.
Just five years ago, there were only a handful of YA novels by self-identified trans/nb authors, but since then the floodgates have opened.
There are at least two dozen YA books by trans/nb authors coming in 2021, and many of these books also represent other identities that have been sorely lacking in teen reads, including BIPOC authors.
“The breadth and depth of genres, narratives, and representation in these books are even more important than the mere presence of gender-nonconforming authors,” says author Ray Stoeve, who maintains a list of books for young readers by trans/non-binary authors.
Here are some of the most exciting young adult books coming in 2021:
Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore (March 9)
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas (March 23)
Between Perfect and Real by Ray Stoeve (April 13)
Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (May 4)
May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor (May 18)
The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (June 1)
The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (June 1)
The [Un]Popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez (June 1)
The Sisters of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis (Aug 10)
