Mult a fost, puțin a rămas din 2021. Și vorba aceea, eu încă procesez 2019 care a început acum 3 ani. Am postat acum câteva săptămâni 📚 Cele mai iubite cărți de pe Goodreads în 2020. Pentru că tocmai s-au anunțat public câștigătorii din 2021, hai să noutățile din acest an.

Am și căutat cărțile de comandat în România pentru că mi se par idei bune de dat cadou de Crăciun 😊. Unele sunt în română, însă majoritatea nu au fost încă traduse.

Ficțiune

🥇 Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney (69.770 voturi) – 3,77/5 steluțe 🌟

”Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them.

They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in.

Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney
2. Dial A For Aunties – Jesse Q Sutanto
3. Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
4. Once There Were Wolves – Charlotte McConaghy
5. The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller
6. Dorința (The Wish) – Nicholas Sparks
7. The Guncle – Steven Rowley

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Fiction Books 2021

Mister și thriller

🥇 The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave (58.406 voturi) – 3,95/5 steluțe 🌟

”We all have stories we never tell. Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her.

Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers: Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered; as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss; as a US Marshal and FBI agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth, together. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they are also building a new future. One neither Hannah nor Bailey could have anticipated.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. The Last Thing He Told Me – Laura Dave
2. Fecioarele (The Maidens) – Alex Michelides (autorul romanului Pacienta Tăcută)
3. Billy Summers – Stephen King
4. The Push – Ashley Audrain
5. Arsenic and Adobo – Mia P. Manasala
6. Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Mystery & Thrille Books 2021

Ficțiune istorică

🥇 Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reild (104.854) – 4,11/5 steluțe 🌟

”Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them… and what they will leave behind. ”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. Malibu Rising – Taylor Jenkins Reild
2. Cele patru vânturi (The Four Winds) – Kristin Hannah
3. Lost Apothcary – Sarah Penner
4. Nume de cod: Trandafirul (The Rose Code) – Kate Quinn

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Historical Fiction 2021

Fantasy

🥇 A Court Of Silver Flames – Sarah J. Maas (111.498 voturi) –  4,39/5 steluțe 🌟

”Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she’s struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can’t seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it.

The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre’s Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta’s orbit. But her temper isn’t the only thing Cassian ignites. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. A Court Of Silver Flames – Sarah J. Maas
2. Under The Whispering Door – TJ Klune
3. Crown Of Gilded Bones – Jennifer L. Armentrout
4. She Who Became The Sun – Shelley Parker-Chan
5. Ariadne – Jennifer Saint

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Fantasy Books 2021

Romantice

🥇 People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry (88.755 voturi) – 4,09/5 steluțe 🌟

”Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.

For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. People We Meet on Vacation – Emily Henry
2. The Love Hypothesis – Ali Hazelwood
3. One Last Stop – Casey McQuiston
4. The Spanish Love Deception – Elena Armas

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Romance Books 2021

Science Fiction

🥇 Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir (92.831 voturi) – 4.53/5 steluțe 🌟

”Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission–and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. Project Hail Mary – Andy Weir (92.831 voturi)
2. Klara and The Sun – Kazuro Ishiguro

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Science Fiction Books 2021

Horror

🥇 The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix (45,960 voturi) – 3,67/5b steluțe 🌟

”A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.

In horror movies, the final girl is the one who’s left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on, what happens to her?”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

2. Later – Stephen King

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Horror Books 2021

Comedii

🥇 Broken – Jenny Lawson (26.788 voturi) – 4,15/5 steluțe 🌟

”From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened comes a deeply relatable book filled with humor and honesty about depression and anxiety.

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way.”

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Humor Books 2021

Non-ficțiune

🥇 The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green (41.649) – 4,47/5 steluțe 🌟

”A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet – from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley’s Comet to Penguins of Madagascar – on a five-star scale.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. The Anthropocene Reviewed – John Green
2. Cartea alinării (The Comfort Book) – Matt Haig (autorul romanului Biblioteca de la miezul nopții)
3. The Book of Hope – Jane Goodall & Douglas Carlton Abrams

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Nonfiction Books

Memorii și autobiografii

🥇 Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner (51.361 voturi) – 4,35/5 steluțe 🌟

”An unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. Crying in H Mart – Michelle Zauner
2. Taste. My Life Through Food – Stanley Tucci

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Memoir and Autobiography Books 2021

Istorie și biografie

🥇 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe (19.969 voturi) – 4,59/5 steluțe 🌟

”The highly anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing.

The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing OxyContin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.

Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.”

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best History & Biography Books 2021

Cărți de grafică și benzi desenate

🥇 Lore Olympus: Volume One – Rachel Smythe (53.686 voturi) – 4,56/5 steluțe 

”Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love—witness what the gods do after dark in this stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of mythology’s most well-known stories from creator Rachel Smythe. Featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story, Smythe’s original Eisner-nominated web-comic Lore Olympus brings the Greek Pantheon into the modern age with this sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

This volume collects episodes 1-25 of the #1 WEBTOON comic, Lore Olympus.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. Lore Olympus: Volume One – Rachel Smythe
2. Dune –  Brian Herbert (Adaptor), Kevin J. Anderson (Adaptor), Frank Herbert, Raul Allen (Illustrations), Patricia Martín (Illustrations), Bill Sienkiewicz (Contributor)

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Graphic Novels & Comics 2021

Poezie

🥇 The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for The Country – Amanda Gorman (49.251 voturi) – 4,56/5 steluțe 🌟

On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition.

Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Poetry Books 2021

Romane de debut

🥇 The Spanish Love Deception – Elena Armas (55.621 voturi) – 4,20/5 steluțe 🌟

”A wedding. A trip to Spain. The most infuriating man. And three days of pretending. Or in other words, a plan that will never work.

Catalina Martín, finally, not single. Her family is happy to announce that she will bring her American boyfriend to her sister’s wedding. Everyone is invited to come and witness the most magical event of the year.

That would certainly be tomorrow’s headline in the local newspaper of the small Spanish town I came from. Or the epitaph on my tombstone, seeing the turn my life had taken in the span of a phone call.”

Nominalizări cu peste 25.000 de voturi:

1. The Spanish Love Deception – Elena Armas
2. Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner
3. Fire Keepers Daughter – Angeline Bouley
4. The Push – Ashley Audrain
5. The Gilded Ones – Namina Forna

Restul nominalizărilor aici: Best Debut Novel 2021

Cam acestea au fost cele mai votate cărți. Mi-ar plăcea să văd un top al celor mai bine vândute cărți în România. Dacă îl găsesc, promit că revin cu el și aici pe blog. Între timp, îți mărturisesc că toate link-urile de mai sus sunt afiliate. Acest lucru înseamnă că o mică parte din prețul produsului se întoarce către creatorul linkului. Tu, client fiind, nu plătești nimic în plus și prețul produsului rămâne neschimbat.

Să ne recitim cu bine! 📚