We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2021 for a look back at the year! In each of our monthly newsletters, we share the top two most-viewed titles on the Reading Group Choices site for that month.
Here are the titles — a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and young adult — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2021. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…
January
1.The House in the Cerulean Sea
by T.J. Klune
2. Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
February
1. Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
2. Oliver
by Steven J. Carino
March
1. Good Apple
by Elizabeth Passarella
2. The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
by Laura Imai Messina
April
1. The Girls in the Stilt House
by Kelly Mustian
2. A Hundred Suns
by Karin Tanabe
May
1. The Glorious Guinness Girls
by Emily Hourican
2. Tears We Cannot Stop
by Michael Eric Dyson
June
1. The Woman They Could Not Silence
by Kate Moore
2. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
July
1. The War Nurse
by Tracey Enerson Wood
2. A Woman of Intelligence
by Karin Tanabe
August
1. She Wouldn’t Change a Thing
by Sarah Adlakha
2. Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
September
1. In Every Mirror She’s Black
by Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström
2. This is Happiness
by Niall Williams
October
1. The Vanished Days
by Susanna Kearsley
2. The House of Rust
by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
November
1. Maybe We’re Electric
by Val Emmich
2. Heard It in a Love Song
by Tracey Garvis Graves
December
1. Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
2. Shelf Life
by Nadia Wassef
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And for more top picks, browse our “Best of the Best” roundup for 2021!