My Favorite Books of 2021

2021 overall reading year reflections:    • 2021 was not a great reading year   Bookshop.org (US): https://bookshop.org/shop/insertlitpun Blackwell's (UK, free US shipping): https://www.blackwells.co.uk?a_aid=in... [Note: These are affiliate links. No pressure at all to buy from these sources (or to buy books in the first place), but if you do choose to buy through these links, I'll receive a small portion of the sale with no extra cost to you.] Books Mentioned: (note: if I've discussed these at length in previous videos, those links are included below) -Chouette by Claire Oshetsky -Dressed for a Dance in the Snow: Women’s Voices from the Gulag by Monika Zgustová (translated from Spanish by Julie Jones) -The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton -Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May -Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen -The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (translated from Georgian by Elizabeth Heighway):    • Video   -Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons -The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen -Music for the Dead and Resurrected by Valzhyna Mort Sample Poem ("To Antigone, a Dispatch"): https://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/to... -Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead:    • I'm still kind of here and still kind of r...   -The Fig Tree by Goran Vojnović (translated from Slovene by Olivia Hellewell):    • Video   -To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova:    • Video   Find me on Twitter:   / insertlitpun   Find me on Goodreads:   / jennifer-insert-lit-pun   This is not a sponsored video, and unless otherwise stated, I bought these books myself.