My favorite books of 2021
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Hello,
Curled up in my bed, typing to you from my laptop that is now missing the “up” key. It happens. #kids
Before I take a month off the newsletter, I want to say thank you. I started this newsletter Fall 2020 and I am so grateful for your support, sharing, comments, and good vibes. You’ve made my ex-pat experience that much less lonely and I’m grateful for you. Kos Newsletter readers are all over the world. THANK YOU.
Shall we talk books? This year was a Kindle doozy. I don’t know if I’ve read this much since seventh grade when my dad dropped me off at school so early I hung out in the library for an hour before school started and I had zero friends because I was painfully shy. Come to think of it! I might be reliving my seventh-grade year minus my pea-green Calvin Klein overalls and white Sketchers. I miss those shoes.
Shall we? I read 60 books this year. These are my favorites:
Kos Newsletter Favorite Books of 2021
The Island of the Sea Women
The Happy Ever After Playlist
The Friend Zone
Pachinko
The Lost Apothecary
Let Your Life Speak
What If It’s Us
The Heronie’s Journey
Life’s Too Short
This Tender Land
The Upside of Falling
Anna and the French Kiss
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Isla and the Happily Ever After,
The Heart Principle
The Love Hypothesis
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Giver of Stars
Wintering
The Idea of You
The Stranger in the Woods
People We Meet on Vacation
Malibu Rising
Good Company
A Gentleman in Moscow
Second First Impressions
The Hating Game
The Buried Giant
The Giver of Stars
This Time Next Year
Yolk
The Right Swipe
Somebody’s Daughter
Hamnet
The Switch
American Royals
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Atomic Habits
Grit
When You Trap a Tiger
The Searcher
Better Than the Movies
Homegoing
Shipped
Yes No Maybe So
Better than the Movies
A Long Petal of the Sea
The Flatshare
How to Fail at Flirting
You Have a Match
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Transcendent Kingdom
Loveboat, Taipei
The Four Winds
You Had Me at Hola
The Lying Life of Adults
Braiding Sweetgrass
Crucible of Doubt
Frankly in Love
Long Way Down
Party of Two
There There
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Crazy Rich Asians
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Tweet Cute
Beach Read
Sorrow and Bliss
Post Corona
The Secret History
The Vanishing Half
Woot, there it is. Have you read some of these? Which were your favorite?
Merry Christmas, happy holidays, and happy 2022.
With toasty warmth,
Kos
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Way to go! 60 books! So many good ones on here. I’m reading Hamnet now, and it is going to be one of my top three books this year, no question. It is a gift of a book
I loved The Isle of Sea Women!