Books We Love 2021

 Looking for your next read? Gift idea? Go to Books We Love at NPR and click on the filters that appeal. Here’s what I’m looking forward to reading from the 2021 list.

Family Matters/Rather Short/Seriously Great Writing

Real Estate by Deborah Levy

"Three bicycles. Seven ghosts. A crumbling apartment block on the hill. Fame. Tenderness. The statue of Peter Pan. Silk. Melancholy. The banana tree. A love story."

Names for Light by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

“I do not like to make decisions, to take risks, to assert or involve myself. … I prefer to … keep myself to myself.”

Funny Stuff/Love Stories/Realistic Fiction

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

“Reality as a whole—past or present—just isn’t a good place to hang out.”

Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

“Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion.”

The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams

“With its symmetry and little dashed isthmus between the two words, ‘hour-glass’ on the page is like the object itself, lying on its side or balanced mid-spin.”