Every summer, I compile a list of books to read. Sometimes their classics I've missed out on, or want to revisit. Sometimes their brand spanking new, just published that year, but ultimately it's always a list of 15-20 books I'm dying to read while I lounge at the pool, by a lake while my family goes fishing, or on an airplane as I hope from one corner of the world to the next.

My list for 2021 was filled with almost 20-books I was dying to read, but in the wake of 2020, my summer didn't provide ample reading time. So, I'm sharing the list of books I did read with my personal rating and the list of books I didn't read (but trust me, I'm getting to them ASAP!) There's no shame here today, just a list of amazing books. Some read. Others waiting their turn.

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The 'Read" List

- The Queens Gambit by Walter Tevis

- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

- Salt to Sea by Ruta Sepertys

- Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe by Heather Webber

- The Lost Apothecary by Sara Penner

- The Paris Library by Janey Charles

- The Jane Austen Societ by Natalie Jenner

- The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

- Lore by Alexandra Bracken

- Bridge to Haven by Francine Rivers

The "Not Read" List

- Once There Was Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

- The House of Vesper Sands by Peraic O'Donnell

- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murry

- The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

- Jane Steele by Lindsay Faye

- The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali

- The Astonishing Life of August March by Arron Jackson

- Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand

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