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Best of 2021: Staff Favorites for Adults

Best Books of 2021 for Adults

The Westport Library staff has picked our favorite 50 books from 2021! From December 1 to January 19, read as many as you want and tell us YOUR favorite on our Facebook group.

Link to When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain in the catalog
Link to Renegades by Obama and Springsteen in the catalog
Link to Last Call by Elon Green in the catalog
Link to Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir in the catalog
Link to Four Winds by Kristin Hannah in the catalog
Link to State of Terror by Penny and Clinton in the catalog
Link to Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner in the catalog
Link to Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro in the catalog
Link to Heart Principle by Helen Hoang in the catalog
Link to Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby in the catalog
Link to Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes by Robinson in the catalog
Link to Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano in the catalog
Link to Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy in the catalog
Link to Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri in the catalog
Link to People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry in the catalog
Link to Never Fall for Your Fiancee by Virginia Heath in the catalog
Link to Just Thieves by Gregory Galloway in the catalog
Link to Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane in the catalog
Link to Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad in the catalog
Link to Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead in the catalog
Link to The Hidden Palace by Wecker in the catalog
Link to One Two Three by Laurie Frankel in the catalog
Link to Last Graduate by Naomi Novik in the catalog
Link to Real Estate by Deborah Levy in the catalog
Link to The Postscript Murders by Elly Griffiths in the catalog
Link to Magician by Colm Toibin in the catalog
Link to With Teeth by Kristen Arnett in the catalog
Link to On Fragile Waves by E Lily Yu
Link to Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny in the catalog
Link to I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins in the catalog
Link to Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr in the catalog
Link to The Push by Ashley Audrain in the catalog
Link to Three sisters by Heather Morris in the catalog
Link to Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood in the catalog
Link to Yearbook by Seth Rogen in the catalog
Link to Lightning Strike by William Kent Krueger in the catalog
Link to Other Black Girl by Harris in the catalog
Link to Sparks Like Stars by Hashimi in the catalog
Link to Midnight Library by Matt Haig in the catalog
Link to The Stranger in the Lifeboat by Albom in the catalog
Link to The Untold Story by Cogman in the catalog
Link to Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne in the catalog
Link to Too Good to be True by Lovering
Link to Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty in the catalog
Link to Just as I am by Cicely Tyson in the catalog
Link to How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith in the catalog
Link to The Lincoln Highway by Towles in the catalog
Link to Dark Roads by Stevens in the catalog
Link to All the Children are Home by Patry Francis in the catalog
Link to Oh William by Elizabeth Strout in the catalog
Link to Reading the Rainbow Resource Guide (Get book recommnedations by color of cover!)
Link to Resource Guide: World Literature in Translation