2021 in books

A brilliant year of books. Paper, e- and audio (borrowed and bought). If you didn’t know you can borrow e-books and audiobooks from your local library, you do now!

Red Bones: Ann Cleeves

Blue Lightning: Ann Cleeves

Back to Nature: Chris Packham and Megan McCubbin

Snow: Giles Whittell

Seven Kinds of People in Bookshops: Shaun Blythell

Close to Where the Heart Gives Out: Malcolm Alexander

Annie Dillard: Teaching a Stone to Talk

Confessions of a Bookseller: Shaun Blythell

Dead Water: Ann Cleeves

Bringing Back the Beaver: Derek Gow

The Comet Sweeper: Claire Brock

Thin Air: Ann Cleeves

The Orchid Hunter: Leid Bersweden

Slough House: Mick Herron

Thin Places: Kerri ni Dochartaigh

Cold Earth: Ann Cleeves

Wild Fire: Ann Cleeves

Poirot Investigates: Agatha Christie

What Abigail Did That Summer: Ben Aaronovitch

Coastlines: Patrick Barkham

Hamnet: Maggie O’Farrell

Invasive Aliens: Dan Eatherley

Another Time, Another Place: Jodi Taylor

The Crossing Places: Elly Griffiths

Braiding Sweetgrass: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Badgerlands: Patrick Barkham

Wayfinnding: Michael Bond

The Oak Papers: James Canton

On The Marsh: Simon Barnes

Circle of GrAce: Jan Richardson

Dear Life: Alice Munro

The Stubborn Lights of Things: Melissa Harrison

A Sting in the Tail: Dave Goulson

The Nightingale: Sam Lee

Blue Horses: Mary Oliver

Stone Circles:Hugh Newman

What if we Stopped Pretending: Jonathan Franzen

Rachel Carson: The Sense of Wonder

To the River: Olivia Laing

Silent Earth: Dave Goulson

The Book of Trespass: Nick Hayes

The Sea is not Made of Water: Adam Nicholson

The Wild Places: Robert Macfarlane

Feminism for Women: Julie Bindel

Gathering Moss: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Islands of Abandonment: Cal Flyn

Saving Time: Jodi Taylor

Entangled Life: Merlin Sheldrake

Did I Say That Out Loud?: Fi Glover and Jane Garvey

The Day the World Came to Town: Jim Defede

Vaxxers: Prof Sarah Gilbert and Dr Catherine Green

The Shepherd’s Life: James Rebanks

The Soaring Life of the Lark: John Lewis-Stempel

Landmarks: Robert Macfarlane

Woodston, the biography of an English farm: John Lewis-Stempel

With the End in Mind: Dr Kathryn Mannix

The Chrysalids: John Wyndham

2021 The Almanac: Lia Leendertz

Trouble with Lichen: John Wyndham

Women on Nature: Edited by Katharine Norbury

The Day of the Triffids: John Wyndham

By Ash, Oak and Thorn: Melissa Harrison

The Midwich Cuckoos: John Wyndham

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: Katherine May

The Toast of Time: Jodi Taylor

A Hearse at Midnight: Simon Parke