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sarahbarnes
The Year in Review | Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
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Thanks for the tag @BarbaraBB ! Here is my #Top21of 21. It‘s been a good reading year - and two weeks still to go!

Suet624 I really liked so many of the same books! 3y
Freespirit I loved Hamnet ❤️ 3y
Ruthiella I really want to read The Light Perpetual. I loved Spufford‘s 3y
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LeahBergen The Queen of Persia just might make my “best of” list this year, too. 😊 3y
batsy Yay for Piranesi love! 💜 3y
Megabooks Summerwater 👍🏻👍🏻 3y
BarbaraBB This is a bit scary, so many of my favorites too! The ones that aren‘t on my list now were on it last year. And I forgot Summerwater, should have included that too. Thanks for sharing!! 3y
CarolynM Some great books here. I loved Euphoria and The Vanishing Half 3y
merelybookish This is a fabulous list! Some on here I need to read. I haven't read the new Toews but bodes well that you liked it. 3y
Cinfhen A few here I MUST add to my 2022 reading #FutureInspiration 3y
vivastory I somehow missed your list! It's fantastic. Taking a screenshot for future reference 📚📚 3y
BkClubCare I loved a few of these, too 😊 3y
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Aims42
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My #Top21of21 (no room for “A Rogue‘s Company” by Allison Montclair, but it‘s in my top 21!)

Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead (and how you got a great pic!) Looking forward to another year with more great reads!! 🥳🙌🏻🤩📚📚📚📚

kspenmoll So many great books!!! 3y
Aims42 @kspenmoll Yes! Already have some preorders in for 2022 😁 3y
LeahBergen 84, Charing Cross Road! 🥰 3y
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Aims42 @LeahBergen That one was such a sneaky favorite!!! I had zero expectations and I LOVED IT! I bought my grandma a copy to read, she also loved it. Such a sweet story ❤️ 3y
LeahBergen I‘ve bought it for gifts several times! 😊 3y
Aims42 @LeahBergen I totally get that, it‘s a great giftable book 😊 3y
AmyG Great list. 3y
Aims42 @AmyG Alllllll thanks to Litsy 😂 3y
RaeLovesToRead Evelyn Hardcastle and The Man Who Died Twice were both AWESOME!! 😀😁❤ 3y
Aims42 @RaeLovesToRead Such awesome reads!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I‘m so excited there‘s a third book from Richard Osman 😁 3y
RaeLovesToRead I really enjoyed The Appeal too... it was a great cosy mystery (told in emails mainly) and at times made me laugh out loud 😊 3y
Aims42 @RaeLovesToRead The Appeal sounds great!!! I know a friend who would love it too! Thanks for the recommendation 🤩 3y
Crazeedi You and I have similar tastes! I've read 6 and am reading Kitchen Front and there are 3 more on your list that I've been wanting to read! 3y
Crazeedi @LeahBergen 84 was an amazing book 3y
Aims42 @Crazeedi That‘s awesome!!! I know I‘ve gotten some recommendations from what you‘ve posted on Litsy 😍 I hope you‘re enjoying “The Kitchen Front”, that one definitely stuck with me after reading it 👍🏻 I am in the “Recommend 84 Charing Cross to EVERYONE” camp now - It‘s just such a sweet and lovely story ☺️ 3y
LeahBergen @Crazeedi One of my faves. 😊 3y
Leftcoastzen I reread 84 again this year , an all time favorite! 3y
Aims42 @Leftcoastzen I can‘t wait to reread it again! 😊 3y
Leftcoastzen Indeed ! I really enjoyed the Four Winds & Dutch House 3y
Aims42 @Leftcoastzen The characters and the story in those two books were just outstanding 🤩 I just had to keep reading them, you just got so immersed in their lives 3y
Cinfhen Excellent list!! I‘ve saved for #FutureInspiration 3y
Aims42 @Cinfhen Awww, that made my day - thank you!! I hope you enjoy them 😃 3y
Aims42 @MaleficentBookDragon it was unlike anything I‘ve ever read before, sooooo good!! 3y
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MaureenMc
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Here‘s my attempt at #Top21of21, subject to amendments as we still have a couple of weeks left in the year. 😁
Please consider yourself tagged, if you‘d like to participate. 😊
(This is my first attempt at Pic Collage. 😬)

EvieBee This is a nice collection! 3y
Freespirit Great books❤️ 3y
LeahBergen Delafield! Von Arnim! Elizabeth Jane Howard! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y
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LeeRHarry I seriously could have put The Cazalet Chtonicles on my list but ran out of room - l enjoyed it so much 😊 great list! 3y
mabell Great choices! 😍 3y
merelybookish Great list! Cazalet Chronicles is on mine too (or will be). 3y
TrishB Good choices 👍🏻 3y
MaureenMc @EvieBee @Freespirit @mabell @merelybookish Thank you! 😊 @LeahBergen 2021 was definitely the year of older books for me! @LeeRHarry 🥰 3y
Nute Fantastic reading this year! Ah! There‘s my girls, Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Jane Howard! And all the nods to the illustrated Harry Potter books! I am discovering so many new books because of everyone‘s choices. Reading through these posts is like a Saturday morning heavenly literary smorgasbord from some of my most favorite people on the planet! Such a delight!💕 3y
MaureenMc @TrishB @Nute Thanks! It has indeed been a delightful year of reading. 😁 3y
DivineDiana I was happily surprised to see “The Long Loneliness” on your list. What an incredible woman! 3y
MaureenMc @DivineDiana I find Dorothy Day to be very inspiring, but also very convicting. She‘ll tell it to you straight! 3y
kspenmoll I am having so much fun seeing people‘s book choices! My aunt & uncle( now dead) worked with Dorothy Day in NYC. They inspired me too work in. Catholic Worker House in Boston in my early 20s. 3y
MaureenMc @kspenmoll How amazing! 3y
Cinfhen Hurray!!!! Your post looks fabulous and so does your book list!!! Need to study for #FutureInspiration 3y
MaureenMc @Cinfhen Thank you! 😊 I‘m getting lots of great ideas for next year from everyone‘s lists! 3y
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