Welcome to the list of books and other reading materials which arrived in calendar year 2021.
This is the seventh year I have made a list like this. The previous six are here:
I keep the complete list of books I own over at LibraryThing, and the terribly incomplete list of books I have read over at GoodReads. This list will be updated frequently.
January (12)
- Pasternak, Boris (Pevear, Richard and Volokhonsky, Larissa, translators), Doctor Zhivago
- Jama-Everett, Ayize and Jennings, John – Box of Bones, book 1 (Rosarium Publishing)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley – The Ministry for the Future
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor – A Writer’s Diary, vol. II
- Batyushkov, Konstantin (France, Peter, translator) – Writings from the Golden Age of Russian Poetry (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
- Khvoshchinskaya, Sofia (Favorov, Nora Seligman, translator) – City Folk and Country Folk (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
- Sokolov, Sasha (Boguslawski, Alexander, translator) – Between Dog & Wolf (The Russian Library of Columbia University Press)
- Martine, Arkady – A Memory Called Empire
- Ashton, Dyrk – Paternus: Wrath of Gods, (Kickstarter exclusive HC, signed, # 108/500) (Paternus Books Media)
- Liptak, Andrew and Gates, Jaym (eds.) – War Stories (Apex Book Company)
- Baltasar, Eva (Sanches, Julia, translator) – Permafrost (And Other Stories)
- Dreamforge #7
February (11)
- Tiqqun – The Cybernetic Hypothesis (Semiotext(e))
- Pike, J. Zachary – Son of a Liche (self published)
- Poetry #217.5
- Jacobin #40
- Graeber, David – Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Melville House Publishing)
- Winter, Evan – The Rage of Dragons
- Navarro, Elvira (MacSweeney, Christina, translator) – Rabbit Island (Two Lines Press)
- Poetry #217.4
- Cherkovski, Neeli – Ferlinghetti: A Biography
- Dunker, Anders – Rediscovering Earth: Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature (OR Books)
- Lazo, Orlando Luis Pardo (ed.; Gulley, Hillary, translator) – Cuba in Splinters: Eleven Stories from the New Cuba (OR Books)
March (12)
- Lange, Norah (Whittle, Charlotte, translator) – Notes from Childhood (And Other Stories)
- Sizemore, Jason and Connor, Lesley (eds.) – Best of Apex Magazine, vol. 1 (Apex Book Company)
- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr – The Gulag Archipelago, volume 3
- Elemental (Two Lines Press)
- Poetry #217.6
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #10
- Rain Taxi Review of Books #26.1, Spring 2021
- Lloret, Bruno (Jones, Ellen, translator) – Nancy (Two Lines Press)
- Harrow, Alix E. – The Ten Thousand Doors of January
- Robin, Corey – The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (Oxford University Press)
- Eubanks, Virginia – Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
- Poetry #218.1
April (5)
- Pelland, Jennifer – Unwelcome Bodies (Apex Book Company)
- Tobler, E. Catherine – The Kraken Sea (Apex Book Company)
- Estes, Nick, Yazzie, Melanie K., Denetdale, Jennifer Nez, Correia, David – Red Nation Rising (PM Press)
- Uncanny Magazine #24: Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction
- Poetry #218.2
May (20)
- Brown, Jericho – The Tradition (Copper Canyon Press)
- Jordan, June – The Essential June Jordan (Copper Canyon Press)
- VanderMeer, Jeff – Hummingbird Salamander
- Jacobin #41
- Attlee, James – Under the Rainbow (And Other Stories)
- Salvage #9, Autumn/Winter 2020
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #11
- Peninsula Poets #78.1 (Spring 2021)
- Fantastic Lairs: Boss Battles and Climactic Encounters
- Gable, Scott, and Dombrowski, C (editors) – Cooties Shot Required (Broken Eye Books)
- Gable, Scott, and Dombrowski, C (editors) – Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Weird (Broken Eye Books)
- Smith, Angela Yuriko and Noel, Scot (editors) – Worlds of Light and Darkness (Uproar Books)
- Knabb, Ken (editor and translator) – Situationist International Anthology (Bureau of Public Secrets)
- Poetry #218.3
- Liem, Tess – Obits (Coach House Books)
- Kelly, Robert – A Strange Market (Black Sparrow Press)
- McDermott, J.M. – Maze (Apex Book Company)
- Kheir, Mohamed (Moger, Robin, translator) – Slipping (Two Lines Press)
- De Boever, Arne and Neidich, Warren (editors) – The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 1 (Archive Books)
- De Boever, Arne and Neidich, Warren (editors) – The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism, Part 2 (Archive Books)
June (11)
- Grisanti, Tamara Burross (editor) Coffin Bell One (Coffin Bell)
- Grisanti, Tamara Burross (editor) Coffin Bell Two (Coffin Bell)
- The Paris Review #237, Summer 2021
- Rain Taxi Review of Books #26.1, Summer 2021
- Granta #155: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists
- Moreno-Garcia, Silvia – The Return of the Sorceress (signed, # X of XXX) (Subterranean Press)
- Massie, Elizabeth – Desper Hollow (Apex Book Company)
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #43
- Hogan, Ron – Our Endless and Proper Work (Belt Publishing)
- Cin, Tice – Keeping the House (And Other Stories)
- Poetry #218.4
July (7)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #12
- Palmatier, Joshua and Coe, David B. (editors) – Derelict (Zombies Need Brains)
- Bray, Patricia and Palmatier, Joshua (editors) – The Modern Deity’s Guide to Surviving Humanity (Zombies Need Brains)
- Butler, S.C. and Palmatier, Joshua (editors) – When Worlds Collide (Zombies Need Brains)
- Sullivan, Michael J. – Nolyn (Ryria Enterprises)
- Saunders, George – A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
- Jacobin #42
August (4)
- Anti-Eviction Mapping Project – Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance (PM Press)
- Straczynski, J. Michael – Together We Will Go
- de Souza, Carl (Zuckerman, Jeffrey, translator) – Kaya Days (Two Lines Press)
- Poetry #218.5
September (7)
- Campbell, Bill, and Khodabandeh, Bizhan – The Day the Klan Came to Town (PM Press)
- Wiesenthal, Simon – The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
- Coolidge, Sarah (editor) – Cuíer (Two Lines Press)
- Victoria, Elisa (Whittle, Charlotte, translator) – Oldladyvoice (And Other Stories)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13
- Rain Taxi #26.3
- Poetry #219.1
October (6)
- Rucker, Rudy – Juicy Ghosts (Transreal Books)
- de Carvalho, Maria Judite (Costa, Margaret Jull, translator) – Empty Wardrobes (Two Lines Press)
- Sanford, Jason – Plague Birds (Apex Book Company)
- Stucky, Janaka (editor) – Ekphrastic Beasts (Black Ocean)
- Poetry #219.2
- Tavenor, C.D. and Trast, Meg (editors) – Gaia Awakens (Two Doctors Media Collaborative)
November (15)
- Hilbig, Wolfgang (Cole, Isabel Fargo, translator) – The Interim (Two Lines Press)
- Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #14
- Jacobin #43
- Salvage #10
- Roanhorse, Rebecca – Black Sun
- Peninsula Poets #78.1, Fall 2021
- Michigan Roots: A Poetry Society of Michigan Anthology (Poetry Society of Michigan)
- Nette, Andrew & McIntyre, Iain (editors) – Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (PM Press)
- Du Mez, Kristin Kobes – Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
- Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix – Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- Crenshaw, Kimberle (editor) – Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement
- Grassmann, Preston (editor) – Out of the Ruins (Titan Books)
- Muir, Tamsyn – Harrow the Ninth
- Rios, Joseph – Shadowboxing (Omnidawn Publishing)
- Foglio, Kaja and Phil – Girl Genius: Sparks and Monsters (Studio Foglio)
December (13)
- Poetry #219.3
- The Paris Review #238
- Speakman, Shawn – The Tempered Steel of Antiquity Grey (Grim Oak Press)
- Arshi, Mona – Somebody Loves You (limited subscriber edition, And Other Stories)
- Scott, Paulo (Hahn, Daniel, translator) – Phenotypes (And Other Stories)
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #44
- Hines, Jim C. – Terminal Uprising
- Scalzi, John – The Collapsing Empire
- Scalzi, John – The Consuming Fire
- Scalzi, John – The Last Emperox
- Harrison, Jim – Complete Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
- Ambrose, RM (editor) – Vital: The Future of Healthcare (Inlandia Institute)
- Inque Magazine #1