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

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. The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
16. Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon
17. Waste Tide by Chen Quifan
18. Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
19. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
20. The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham 
21. The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
22. Foundation by Isaac Asimov
23. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
24. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
25. The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
26. The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders
27. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
28. Lent by Jo Walton
29. Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
30. The Color of Lightning by Paulette Jiles
31. The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson
32. The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter
33. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
34. The Burning God by R. F. Kuang
35. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
36. The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
37. The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
38. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
39. Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson 
40. Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
41. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson 
42. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
43. Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
44. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick
45. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
46. The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
47. Sabriel by Garth Nix
48. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
49. A Sword Named Truth by Sherwood Smith
50. Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
51. The Explorers Guild by Jon Baird and Kevin Costner
52. Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
53. Age of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan
54. The Dragonwood Chair by Tad Williams
55. Hav by Ian Morris
56. Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
57. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
58. Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake 
59. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
60. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
61. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson 
62. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
63. The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
64. Summer by Ali Smith
65. Nowhere by Brandon Sanderson
66. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
67. Prince of Cats by Ronald Wimberly