Our Mega 2021 TBR

Usually we make monthly TBRs. But looking at all the books we’ve collected over the last year or so we decided we really wanted to actually think long-term and try to get a better handle on our stacks of unread books. 

Indiana’s 2021 TBR

I’m hoping to tackle some of the books that have piled up lately, a mix of fantasy, nonfiction, children’s lit and contemporary fiction. While I’m sure to add a few more to this list as the year goes on, I want to at least get through all of these. Wish me luck!  

1. The Vanished Queen by Lisbeth Campbell
2. ✔ Future Sea by Deborah Rowan Wright
3. ✔ The Future of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell
4. ✔Caste by Isabel Wilkerson 
5. The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel 
6. ✔ The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos
7. ✔ In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
8. ✔ Five Feet Apart by Mikki Daughtry, Rachael Lippincott, and Tobias Iaconis
9. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse by K. Eason
10. ✔ A Whale of the Wild by Rosanne Parry
11. The Mothers by Brit Bennett 
12. ✔Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
13. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
14. Candide by Voltaire
15. ✔ Westside Saints by W.M. Akers
16. ✔French Exit by Patrick deWitt
17. ✔The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang
18. The Burning God by R.F. Kuang
19. Beach Read by Emily Henry
20. ✔ The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 
21. ✔The Cruel Prince by Holly Black 
22. How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr 
23. Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Philip V. Mladenov    
24. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
25. Into the Raging Sea by Rachel Slade 
26. When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald 
27. Writers & Lovers by Lily King 
28. Super Fake Love Song by David Yoon
29. Breathless by Jennifer Niven
30. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 
31. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
32. All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
33. ✔ Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 
34. ✔ Summer by Ali Smith 
35. The Near Witch by V.E. Schwab
36. Inheritance by Dani Shapiro 
37. Many Waters by Madeleine L’Engle 
38. Lovely War by Julie Berry 
39. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
40. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
41. After the Flood by Kassandra Montag
42. Lucky You by Erika Carter
43. ✔The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
44. Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger
45. ✔The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman 
46. ✔ Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion 
47. Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch by Julie Abe 
48. The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
49. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
50. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
51. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
52. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
53. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
54. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
55. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #2 by Kamome Shirahama 
56. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #3 by Kamome Shirahama 
57. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #4 by Kamome Shirahama 
58. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #5 by Kamome Shirahama 
59. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #6 by Kamome Shirahama 
60. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #7 by Kamome Shirahama 
61. ✔ On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
62. ✔ Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
63. ✔ Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
64. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
65. ✔ Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
66. ✔ On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
67. ✔ The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox
68. ✔ The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
69. ✔ Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
70. ✔ Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
71. ✔ Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab
72. ✔ King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
73. ✔ Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
74. ✔ Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo
75. ✔ Anna K Away by Jenny Lee
76. ✔ Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
77. ✔ People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
78. ✔ The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
79. ✔ Sea Wife by Amity Gaige
80. ✔ Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
81. ✔ The World is Blue by Sylvia A. Earle
82. Emperors of the Deep by William McKeever
83. ✔ The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
84. ✔ The Second Home by Christina Clancy
85. ✔ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Pete’s 2021 TBR

Many of these books have been on my TBR for years, and it’s gotten a little out of control. While I try to generally read the books I’m most excited for first, I would love to get to the point where I can buy a new book and start reading it immediately guilt-free, without thinking of the dozens of other books waiting for me at home. 

1. ✔ So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo 
2. ✔ The Memory of Souls by Jenn Lyons
3. ✔ Do You Dream of Terra-Two? By Temi Oh
4. ✔ The Blackthorn Key by Kevin Sands
5. ✔ Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
6. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #2 by Kamome Shirahama 
7. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #3 by Kamome Shirahama 
8. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #4 by Kamome Shirahama 
9. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #5 by Kamome Shirahama 
10. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #6 by Kamome Shirahama
11. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #7 by Kamome Shirahama 
12. ✔ On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
13. ✔ Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
14. ✔ Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
15. ✔ Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
16. ✔ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
17. ✔ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
18. ✔ Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
19. ✔ The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
20. ✔ The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
21. ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Promise by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
22. ✔ Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
23. ✔ The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
24. ✔ Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan
25. ✔ Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
26. ✔ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham
27. ✔ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
28. ✔ Sabriel by Garth Nix
29. ✔ The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers
30. ✔ Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson
31. ✔ Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce
32. ✔ Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly
33. ✔ Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
34. ✔ Dani and Ramen: A Nomad’s Tale (vol. 1) by Jake Morrison
35. ✔ Blankets by Craig Thompson
36. ✔ The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
37. ✔ An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
38. ✔ Ice by Anna Kavan
39. ✔ Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
40. ✔ Summer by Ali Smith
41. ✔ The World of Edena by Jean Giraud
42. ✔ Avatar: The Last Airbender – The Search by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru
43. ✔ The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley
44. ✔ A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
45. ✔ The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
46. ✔ The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
47. ✔ Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
48. ✔ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
49. ✔ The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
50. ✔ The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
51. ✔ The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
52. ✔ Dark One: Volume 1 by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Nathan Gooden, and Kurt Michael Russell
53. ✔ Thornhill by Pam Smy
54. ✔ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
55. ✔ A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
56. ✔ The Explorers Guild by Jon Baird, Kevin Costner, and Rick Ross
57. ✔ Foundation by Isaac Asimov
58. ✔ The Wave by Susan Casey
59. ✔ Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
60. ✔ Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
61. ✔ Witch Hat Atelier #8 by Kamome Shirahama
62. ✔ Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
63. ✔ Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
64. ✔ The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
65. ✔ The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
66. ✔ The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
67. ✔ Fable by Adrienne Young
68. ✔ Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
69. ✔ Monstress by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
70. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
71. The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
72. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
73. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
74. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
75. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
76. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.  
77. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
78. Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake 
79. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
80. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
81. A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir