Uh oh. UH OH. It's our yearly update on our favorite books, but... it's almost a year late.

Look, we can't be perfect all the time, so you're just gonna have to accept this wonderful content whenever it rolls around.

So... what were the best novels we read in 2021? Well, those were:

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

• Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

• The Song Of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

• Middlemarch, by George Eliot

• Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

• Calypso, by David Sedaris

So, sit back and enjoy those lovely Smug Book Club boys talk through why these were their most-enjoyed books of 2021.

Until next time, friends!