03 January 2022

2021 Bookish Notes

 


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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