{"id":4841,"date":"2021-12-20T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=4841"},"modified":"2021-12-18T11:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T16:47:30","slug":"episode-187-bests-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-187-bests-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 187 – Bests of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year has come and gone, and Kait and Renata are here to make lemonade out of the lemons of 2021. We each picked our top 6 books of the year and discussed some other highlights of the year.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong>The Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2021, featuring Renata’s picks for best middle grade and young adult novels<\/a><\/p>\n

Taylor Swift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Legends of Tomorrow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Lasso<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The West Wing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Fast & Furious: Highway Heist Game<\/a><\/p>\n

Wingspan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong>A January hiatus. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in February!<\/p>\n

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Kait\u2019s Top 6 Best<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/a>\"The<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

6.) The Taking of Jake Livingston<\/em> by Ryan Douglass (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

5.) The Valley and the Flood<\/em> by Rebecca Mahoney (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

4.) The Charm Offensive<\/em> by Alison Cochrun (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>\"Rules<\/a>\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

3.) The Only Good Indians<\/em> by Stephen Graham Jones (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

2.) Rules for Vanishing<\/em> (& Our Last Echoes<\/em>) by Kate Alice Marshall (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.) The Hollow Places<\/em> by T. Kingfisher (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Renata\u2019s Top 6 Best<\/h3>\n

\"Slaughterhouse-Five:<\/a>\"The<\/a>\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

6.) Slaughterhouse-Five: The Graphic Nove<\/em>l by Kurt Vonnegut, Ryan North, and Albert Monteys (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

5.) The Anthropocene Reviewed<\/em> by John Green (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

4.) A Little Devil in America<\/em> by Hanif Abdurraqib (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>\"Tacky<\/a>\"White<\/a><\/p>\n

3.) The Warmth of Other Sun<\/em>s (& Caste<\/em>) by Isabel Wilkerson (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

2.) Tacky<\/em> by Rax King (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

1.) White Magic<\/em> by Elissa Washuta (Amazon<\/a> | Bookshop<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

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*\u00a0Worst Bestsellers<\/em>\u00a0is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to\u00a0Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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