2021 Reading List Ballot

November 7, 2020

This year, we have 31 intriguing literary candidates. As always, vote for however many you’re interested in reading. We’ll see what floats to the top and whittle our list down to our top 12 from there.

For reference on what the books are about, the full list with descriptions is below the ballot.

2021 Book List Ballot

  • Everything Beautiful in Its Time / Jenna Bush Hager (5%, 6 Votes)
  • The Book of Lost Friends / Lisa Wingate (5%, 6 Votes)
  • The Star Garden / Nancy E. Turner (5%, 6 Votes)
  • The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss and American Royalty in the Nation's Largest Home / Denise Kiernan (5%, 6 Votes)
  • Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years / Julie Andrews (5%, 6 Votes)
  • Fire in the Water / James Alexander Thom (5%, 5 Votes)
  • The Last of the Moon Girls / Barbara Davis (5%, 5 Votes)
  • Elephant Company / Vicki Croke (5%, 5 Votes)
  • Secrets of a Charmed Life / Susan Meissner (5%, 5 Votes)
  • The Island of Sea Women / Lisa See (5%, 5 Votes)
  • The Huntress / Kate Quinn (4%, 4 Votes)
  • The Giver of Stars / Jojo Moyes (4%, 4 Votes)
  • The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah (4%, 4 Votes)
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo / Christy Lefteri (4%, 4 Votes)
  • Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates (4%, 4 Votes)
  • This Tender Land / William Kent Krueger (4%, 4 Votes)
  • The Book of Longings / Sue Monk Kidd (4%, 4 Votes)
  • Three Hours in Paris / Cara Black (3%, 3 Votes)
  • Mrs. Everything / Jennifer Weiner (3%, 3 Votes)
  • A Woman of No Importance / Sonia Purnell (3%, 3 Votes)
  • The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos / Judy Batalion (3%, 3 Votes)
  • No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest / Janis Thornton (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City / Phillip Hoose (2%, 2 Votes)
  • The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz / Erik Larson (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Tales of the South Pacific / James A. Michener (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Surviving Savannah / Patti Callahan (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Salt to the Sea / Ruth Sepetys (2%, 2 Votes)
  • Mortmain Hall / Morton Edwards (1%, 1 Votes)
  • The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West / David McCullough (1%, 1 Votes)
  • To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude / Ray Boomhower (1%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 9

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