Wrapping up the year 2021 means a bit of reflection time. It has been an amazing year of reading this year, and I loved putting together this little listing of some "best of" books just for fun. I didn't even get all the books in the photo. the tower would be much higher. I am very much looking forward to more wonderful reading in 2022!
What books offered fodder for thinking deeply?
The Divine Comedy: Hell, by Dante
Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers (1899 - 1936)
Lifting the Veil, by Malcolm Guite
What books were so good they should be read again?
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë
The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy
What books were fascinating studies of nature?
Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake
Underland, by Robert McFarlane
Best books of total escapes into another imagined world?
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke
A Winter's Promise, by Christelle Dabos
Best book of essays?
A Vertical Art: Oxford Lectures, by Simon Armitage
Best books that made me laugh?
Very Good, Jeeves!, by P.G. Wodehouse
The Man Who Knew Too Much, by G.K. Chesterton
Best mystery books?
Peril at End House, by Agatha Christie
Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, by Stuart Turton
Best epic book (that I would love to re-read)?
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
Best theology book?
Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs, by Søren Kierkegaard
Best poetry books?
David's Crown, by Malcolm Guite
The Owl and the Nightingale, newly translated by Simon Armitage
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