Every year, I list out all the books I read in a blog post. Since I consume vast quantities of text, I don’t get a chance to highlight the best books. This year I decided to pick five from each category to recommend. While these books have all come out at different times, they are all books I read in 2021.

Top 7 Fiction (Non-Series)

1. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir
2. Oona Out of Order – Margarita Montimore
3. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V.E. Schwab
4. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen – Laurie R King
5. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
6. The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah
7. Later – Stephen King

Top 5 Non-Fiction

1. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference – William MacAskill
2. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado Perez
3. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
4. Broken – Jenny Lawson
5. Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America – Christopher Wylie

Top 3 Fiction (Series)

1. Bridgertons [First book is The Duke and I ] – Julia Quinn
2. All Souls Trilogy [First book is A Discovery of Witches] – Deborah Harkness
3. Bobiverse [First book is We Are Legion] – Dennis E. Taylor

Have you read any of these books? Let us know in the comment section.