Staff Picks 2021, Part 1

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It is just about time to say a proper goodbye to 2021 and that means it’s time to reflect on some of our favorite reads (or listens or watches). Have we read something out of our genre comfort zones? Have we been exploring particular interests? Were we in need some feel-good stories? Let’s find out by taking a look at our staff’s favorite picks from the past year. We’ll begin with Lindsay, Emma, and Tami…

Lindsay’s Top Picks:

Aniara (movie)
Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica
The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
Six: The Musical (Soundtrack)
Girls5eva (Soundtrack)
Heathers: The Musical (World Premiere Cast Recording soundtrack)
The Anatomy of Desire: A Novel by L. R. Dorn (Audio Book)

Emma’s Top Picks:

Big Dark Hole and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault

Tami’s Top Picks:

Three Sisters by Heather Morris
The Sanatorium by Sarah Pearse
Before We Were Yours – By Lisa Wingate

When you find my body: The disappearance of Geraldine Largay on the Appalachian Trail by D. Dauphinee
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel

Next time we’ll share top picks from Julie, Emily, and Jen. In the meantime, if you have some favorites from 2021 that you’d like to share, drop them in the comment box below.