The Best Books of 2021
A consolidated list
MY TOP FIVE BOOKS:
In no particular order — well, except for the first — behold:
NEVER SAW ME COMING, Vera Kurian.
If you were to ask me what my absolute favorite book of 2021 was — the one that’s going on my list of all-time most beloved reads — I wouldn’t hesitate: I’d say Vera Kurian’s debut novel, the bizarre, funny, rapid fire NEVER SAW ME COMING. In this hilarious take on college life, a Washington, D.C. university invites young psychopaths to participate in a secret research program in exchange for free tuition. Get a group of young psychopaths together and obviously things are going to get messy: the novel’s protagonist, the surprisingly sympathetic Chloe, is obsessed with murdering another student at the college, who wronged her when she was young. But Chloe’s mission is derailed when students in the psychopath program start dropping like flies — and Chloe’s not the one doing the murdering. But who is? And why? Chloe teams up with several other students in the program to find out who’s got it in for the university psychopaths, but everyone has their own agenda, and nobody’s better at hiding their agenda than a psychopath…
