The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 187 – Bests of 2021


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Another year has come and gone, and Kait and Renata are here to make lemonade out of the lemons of 2021. We each picked our top 6 books of the year and discussed some other highlights of the year.

Footnotes: The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2021, featuring Renata’s picks for best middle grade and young adult novels

Taylor Swift

Legends of Tomorrow

Ted Lasso

The West Wing

Fast & Furious: Highway Heist Game

Wingspan

 

Coming up next: A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!

Kait’s Top 6 Best

6.) The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (Amazon | Bookshop)

5.) The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney (Amazon | Bookshop)

4.) The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun (Amazon | Bookshop

3.) The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Amazon | Bookshop)

2.) Rules for Vanishing (& Our Last Echoes) by Kate Alice Marshall (Amazon | Bookshop)

1.) The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher (Amazon | Bookshop)

 

Renata’s Top 6 Best

6.) Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, and Albert Monteys (Amazon | Bookshop)

5.) The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green (Amazon | Bookshop)

4.) A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib (Amazon | Bookshop)

3.) The Warmth of Other Suns (& Caste) by Isabel Wilkerson (Amazon | Bookshop)

2.) Tacky by Rax King (Amazon | Bookshop)

1.) White Magic by Elissa Washuta (Amazon | Bookshop)

 

Worst Bestsellers is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)

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