Top 15 books of 2021

The only rule I had was to only put my favourite Age of Madness book, rather than all 3. Aside from that, I had no other rules. I wanted an accurate reflection of the books I loved in 2021, so I included books from the same author and novellas.

Playlist of all my book reviews that are out:

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[mariareadsssf]

This were my reading highlights of 2021. 🥇"PIRANESI" - Susanna Clarke
🆕️ Debut: "The Hand Of The Sun King" - J. T. Greathouse
Fantasy: "The Sword Of Kaigen" - M. L. Wang, "Black Sun" - Rebecca Roanhorse
🌍 Fiction, Climate Change: "Migrations" - Charlote McConaghy"
⏳ Fiction, Historical: "The Wonder" - Emma Donoghue
📚 Philosophy: "One, No One and One Hundred Thousand" - Luigi Pirandello
📖 Novela:
"The Emperor's Soul" - Brandon Sanderson
📜 Short Stories:
"The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate" - Ted Chiang
"The Angel Of Khan el-Khalili" - P. Djélì Clark
💭 Wierd Fiction:
"Tainaron: Mail From Another City" - Leena Krohn
👶Childrens, Philosophy: "How Do You Live?" - Genzaburo Yoshino

[joshyaks]

This will be the year that I finally dive into some Abercrombie!

[thecontradictorian]

Wrath over Red Country.
*there‘s a sharp pain in my heart*

[charlesgabriel]

Liked how you threw the post it notes 😃 .. jokes apart Good List 👍

[AbbySalter]

I really hope I love Joe Abercrombie as much as you.
So happy to see Daevabad on here

[Merrick]

It is basically unimaginable that Joe A could write a bad book at this point.
Agree he is improving before our eyes.

[BookishChas]

Great video! I really enjoyed the First Law trilogy, but I haven’t read any more of the series yet. I’ve also been wanting to read Chakraborty. I keep hearing so many good things.

[safinan]

Hi great video!! Happy reading to you!! 🎥📚

[FineReads]

What an awesome list! Just added a bunch of books to my wish list 🤣

[Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

Yes Red Country was my fav of the 3 standalones.
Awesome list!!! Yesss. Trouble with Peace was my fav of the 3

[AndrewsWizardlyReads]

I’m loving LPQ as well! The emperors soul was I just read the heroes and I have red country on deck. I’m not used to reading westerns so I’ll keep that in mind while reading Red Country.

[AndrewsWizardlyReads]

Fantastic list and video Zara!!! Can wait to discuss Betrayal and winter this weekend

[vrmillinair]

Dude, this video was like, the most ZARA video XD Very on brand lol Like, if ppl don't know anything about Zara as booktuber, just show them this video lol

Joe Abercrombie gush? - ☑
K. J. Parker gush ? - ☑
Contractually obliged shoutout to Allen? -☑
Refences to how much she likes "darker fiction" - ☑
Classy AF card flicking? - ☑
Fabulous hair? - ☑

I'm serious about that last one btw XD I think that Zara's hair always looks nice in her videos and I'm the type of guy who absolutely DOES NOT notice those kinds of things (like hair, makeup, jewelry, new clothes, mani-pedis etc.) at all like ever lol

[mattkean]

I'm starting KJ Parker next month, with 16 Ways to Defend a Walled City. Going to start filling in my Abercrombie gap too.

[AndrewsWizardlyReads]

Ok I have a ton of KJP but no idea when I will get to it.

[eddiepolo]

Nice list!
It seems like I need to check out K.J. Parker.

[bookendsandbiscuits]

Yes, but Joe abercrombie is an excellent author :D

[chevalierdulys]

So you like Abercrombie and k j Parker ? Eheh good top novels. I hope you read more kj Parker novels, mainly his series. Engines and devices looks awesome..