Like Other Girls Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol The Ones We're Meant to Find The Farm Revelator Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake Thirsty Mermaids
The Other Black Girl The Farm The Book of Accidents People We Meet on Vacation Dare Me Sorrowland Jade Legacy
The Bear and the Nightingale Take Me with You When You Go Seven Demons House of Hollow A Dark and Starless Forest Light from Uncommon Stars The Hunting Party
You Have a Match House of Hollow A Lot Like Adiós A Psalm for the Wild-Built Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus The Husbands Like Other Girls

My Favorite Reads 2021

By Sarah Gailey

By Sarah Gailey

At the end of each month, I reflect on the books I read and that moved me. Here is a list of my favorite reads of the year so far. Subscribe to my newsletter Stone Soup for more information.

The Farm

The Farm

Joanne Ramos

$17.00 $15.81

devastating

Like Other Girls

Like Other Girls

Britta Lundin

$17.99 $16.73

bold, sweet, earnest

House of Hollow

House of Hollow

Krystal Sutherland

$18.99 $17.66

haunting, compelling, pitch-dark

The Ones We're Meant to Find

The Ones We're Meant to Find

Joan He

$18.99 $17.66

incisive, thoughtful, heartbreaking

A Dark and Starless Forest

A Dark and Starless Forest

Sarah Hollowell

$17.99 $16.73

livid, magical, gorgeous

The Hunting Party

The Hunting Party

Lucy Foley

$18.99 $17.66

delicious, fun, satisfying

Light from Uncommon Stars

Light from Uncommon Stars

Ryka Aoki

$28.99 $26.96

weird, stunning, transformative

Take Me with You When You Go

Take Me with You When You Go

Jennifer Niven and David Levithan

$18.99 $17.66

tender, powerful, confrontational

Revelator

Revelator

Daryl Gregory

$27.00 $25.11

brassy, exhilarating, intricate

The Husbands

The Husbands

Chandler Baker

$26.99 $25.10

bold, relevant, thrilling

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Becky Chambers

$20.99 $19.52

tender and earnestly human

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

$18.00 $16.74

terrifyingly nonfiction

The Book of Accidents

The Book of Accidents

Chuck Wendig

$28.99 $26.96

viscerally honest and devastating

The Other Black Girl

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris

$27.00 $25.11

taut, cutting, ingenious

Jade Legacy

Jade Legacy

Fonda Lee

$30.00 $27.90

bold, revelatory, stunning

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

Mallory O'Meara

$27.99 $26.03

sharp, funny, dazzling

Seven Demons

Seven Demons

Aidan Truhen

$16.95 $15.76

captivating, dizzying, magnificent

A Lot Like Adiós

A Lot Like Adiós

Alexis Daria

$15.99 $14.87

funny, dynamic, steamy

People We Meet on Vacation

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry

$16.00 $14.88

charming, deep, lovely

Dare Me

Dare Me

Megan Abbott

$16.99 $15.80

tight, tense, gripping

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake

Alexis Hall

$15.99 $14.87

sweet, charming, welcoming

You Have a Match

You Have a Match

Emma Lord

$18.99 $17.66

complex, thoughtful, dynamic

Thirsty Mermaids

Thirsty Mermaids

Kat Leyh

$32.00 $29.76

sweet, hilarious, healing

The Bear and the Nightingale

The Bear and the Nightingale

Katherine Arden

$35.64

tense, mythic, personal

Sorrowland

Sorrowland

Rivers Solomon

$27.00 $25.11

dynamic, unsettling, profound