Some of our staff members have rounded up their favourite reads of 2021.

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Alan

1. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
2. The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
3. Cowboy Graves by Robert Bolano
4. Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono
5. The Nutmeg’s Curse by Amitav Ghosh
6. Take Me To The River by Julian Bolleter
7. A Lover’s Discourse by Xiaolu Guo
8. Nina Simone’s Gum by Warren Ellis
9. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
10. The Metronome by Jennifer Maiden
11. Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank

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Anne

1. What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
2. Matrix by Lauren Groff
3. The Practise of Not Thinking by Ryunosuke Koike
4. The Believer by Sarah Krasnostein
5. How to End a Story by Helen Garner
6. The First Time I Thought I was Dying by Sarah Walker
7. Snapdragon by Kate Leyh
8. These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
9. Utsuwa: Japanese Items for Everyday Use by Kylie Johnson and Tiffany Johnson
10. Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

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Edie

1. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
2. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
3. Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki
4. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
5. Selected Stories 1968-1994 by Alice Munro
6. At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
7. Real Life by Brandon Taylor
8. The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
9. Yokai by Koichi Yumoto

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Gideon

1. Dateline Jerusalem by John Lyons
2. Zorba the Greek by Niko Katanzakis
3. I Am David by Anne Holm
4. Inside Man by KJ Parker
5. Three by Ann Quin
6. Describing the Past by Ghassan Zaqtan
7. Gaza by Finkelstein

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Jaimie

1. Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
2. The Dancer in Your Hands by Jo Pollitt
3. Nobody by Alice Oswald
4. The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
5. The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
6. Slug by Hollie McNish
7. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
8. The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

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Kat

1. To The River by Olivia Laing
2. Rag and Bone by Lisa Woollett
3. Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith
4. Small Bodies of Water by Nina Mingya Powles
5. There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuro Tsumura
6. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
8. The Girl and the Mountain by Mark Lawrence 

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Kristy

1. Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
2. Social Queue by Kay Kerr
3. Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton and Aśka
4. Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
5. Happy Endings by Bella Green
6. Skimming Stones Maria Papas
7. How to End a Story by Helen Garner
8. Still Life by Sarah Winman
9. All About Yves by Yves Rees

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Max

1. The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner
2. Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong
3. Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou by Jin Dan and Mark Bender
4. The Ancient Andean States by Henry Tantaleán
5. Tibetan Folk Tales by Frederick Hyde-Chambers
6. Wild Thought by Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Ren

1. Love by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees
2. Hello Little Fish by Lucy Cousins
3. Busting by Aaron Blabey
4. Bumblebee Grumblebee by David Elliot
5. How To Say Hello by Sophie Beer

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Ross

1. Monkey King by Wu Cheng’en, translated by Julia Lovell
2. Once More Unto the Breach: Samurai Warriors and Heroes in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces by Ei Kakau
3. The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson
4. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
5. From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga by S. H Fernando
6. Auspicious Animals: The Art of Good Omens by Jun’ichi Uchiyama
7. Scalped by Jason Aaron, illustrated by R. M. Guéra

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