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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2021

Feature and Contest

Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2021

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2021.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

A special congratulations to our contest winner, Amy C. of Fort Worth, TX, who won eight fabulous book group titles releasing this year: THE GOOD SON by Jacquelyn Mitchard, HER HIDDEN GENIUS by Marie Benedict, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE STREET by Diane Chamberlain, THE MAGNOLIA PALACE by Fiona Davis, THE MAID by Nita Prose, OLGA DIES DREAMING by Xochitl Gonzalez, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS by Jessamine Chan, and VIOLETA by Isabel Allende.
 


 

Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
AMERICAN DIRT
by Jeanine Cummins
THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn
KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro
THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett
ETERNAL by Lisa Scottoline
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles
THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY by Matt Haig
ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman
 

Top 10 Books Read Outside of Your Group:
THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah
THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY by Amor Towles
HAMNET: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'Farrell
ETERNAL by Lisa Scottoline
THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn
THE LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave
CLOUD CUCKOO LAND by Anthony Doerr
ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES by Charlotte McConaghy
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain