Book Club of One Podcast: Featured Books 2021

1.
Season of Migration to the North
Season of Migration to the North 3.72 avg rating — 32,265 ratings
2.
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1)
The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 30,154 ratings
3.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,778 ratings
4.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,441 ratings
5.
The Aosawa Murders
The Aosawa Murders
by: Riku Onda
3.60 avg rating — 6,204 ratings
6.
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
War: How Conflict Shaped Us 3.58 avg rating — 3,781 ratings
7.
We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust
We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust 4.29 avg rating — 96 ratings
8.
Welcome to the New World
Welcome to the New World 4.06 avg rating — 1,776 ratings
9.
Roadside Picnic
Roadside Picnic 4.13 avg rating — 81,981 ratings
10.
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir
The Girl Who Stole My Holocaust: A Memoir 3.77 avg rating — 184 ratings
11.
Guts and Glory : Great American War Movies
Guts and Glory : Great American War Movies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
12.
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age 4.13 avg rating — 2,896 ratings
13.
The Corpse Washer
The Corpse Washer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8,060 ratings
14.
The Cold Millions
The Cold Millions 3.95 avg rating — 19,921 ratings
15.
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket 3.94 avg rating — 14,343 ratings
16.
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 335,207 ratings
17.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America 4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings
18.
Ghoster
Ghoster 3.28 avg rating — 2,748 ratings
19.
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914
The Burning of the World: A Memoir of 1914 3.86 avg rating — 500 ratings
20.
The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1
The Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1 4.05 avg rating — 555 ratings
21.
Speedboat
Speedboat 3.76 avg rating — 7,257 ratings
22.
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
23.
The Long Trail: What the Soldiers Sang and Said in the Great War of 1914 to 1918
The Long Trail: What the Soldiers Sang and Said in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
24.
The Echo Wife
The Echo Wife 3.61 avg rating — 36,884 ratings
25.
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock 3.93 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
26.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,104 ratings
27.
The Refugees
The Refugees 3.87 avg rating — 21,719 ratings
28.
For Bread Alone
For Bread Alone 3.57 avg rating — 10,733 ratings
29.
At Night All Blood is Black
At Night All Blood is Black 3.81 avg rating — 26,962 ratings
30.
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons - The World on One Cartoon a Day
You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons - The World on One Cartoon a Day 3.80 avg rating — 962 ratings
31.
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power 4.07 avg rating — 8,673 ratings
32.
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 160,023 ratings
33.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life 4.54 avg rating — 23,126 ratings
34.
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Lost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction and Fantasy 3.69 avg rating — 195 ratings
35.
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry & Verse of the First World War
Scars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry & Verse of the First World War 3.95 avg rating — 250 ratings
36.
The Passenger
The Passenger 3.95 avg rating — 9,950 ratings
37.
Salvation Day
Salvation Day 3.71 avg rating — 3,047 ratings
38.
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure 3.67 avg rating — 1,651 ratings
39.
How to Ru(i)N a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records
How to Ru(i)N a Record Label: The Story of Lookout Records 4.34 avg rating — 470 ratings
40.
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn 4.15 avg rating — 8,708 ratings
41.
The Rose Code
The Rose Code 4.45 avg rating — 340,546 ratings
42.
The Office of Historical Corrections
The Office of Historical Corrections 4.17 avg rating — 35,967 ratings
43.
Memorial
Memorial 3.57 avg rating — 37,148 ratings
44.
Millennium
Millennium 3.78 avg rating — 2,895 ratings
45.
There Will Be Blood (Nailbiter, #1)
There Will Be Blood (Nailbiter, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 6,511 ratings
46.
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos 4.07 avg rating — 9,481 ratings
47.
The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World
The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
48.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate 4.20 avg rating — 52,548 ratings
49.
Security
Security 3.29 avg rating — 4,025 ratings
50.
Whereabouts
Whereabouts 3.76 avg rating — 33,613 ratings
51.
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America 3.90 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
52.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 132,986 ratings
53.
A History of the World in 100 Objects
A History of the World in 100 Objects 4.19 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
54.
Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook
Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook 3.97 avg rating — 356 ratings
55.
The World's War
The World's War 4.44 avg rating — 275 ratings
56.
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas 4.21 avg rating — 175 ratings
57.
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series)
Inhuman Traffick: The International Struggle against the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Graphic History (Graphic History Series) 3.61 avg rating — 59 ratings
58.
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains 4.33 avg rating — 7,251 ratings
59.
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far
Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion . . . So Far 4.07 avg rating — 835 ratings
60.
Galactic Empires
Galactic Empires 3.81 avg rating — 428 ratings
61.
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts 4.27 avg rating — 5,747 ratings
62.
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (New York Review Books Classics)
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (New York Review Books Classics) 3.62 avg rating — 839 ratings
63.
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planet
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centered planet 4.36 avg rating — 161,055 ratings
64.
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives 4.36 avg rating — 2,280 ratings
65.
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)
A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 33,528 ratings
66.
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village 4.19 avg rating — 903 ratings
67.
Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture
Another World: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Print Culture 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
68.
Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America
Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America 4.36 avg rating — 393 ratings
69.
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration
Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration 3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings
70.
Ayoade on Top
Ayoade on Top 3.84 avg rating — 9,833 ratings
71.
The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
The Plot (The Book Series, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 135,442 ratings
72.
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education
No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education 4.08 avg rating — 115 ratings
73.
The Man Who Lived Underground
The Man Who Lived Underground 3.94 avg rating — 3,292 ratings
74.
The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I
The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I 4.07 avg rating — 322 ratings
75.
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out of Commission 3.69 avg rating — 124 ratings
76.
On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth 4.18 avg rating — 10,335 ratings
77.
The Magic of Terry Pratchett
The Magic of Terry Pratchett 4.38 avg rating — 333 ratings
78.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August 4.03 avg rating — 96,330 ratings
79.
The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List
The 100 Most Jewish Foods: A Highly Debatable List 4.09 avg rating — 380 ratings
80.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,099 ratings
81.
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them 3.62 avg rating — 765 ratings
82.
No Room at the Morgue
No Room at the Morgue 3.76 avg rating — 859 ratings
83.
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis
The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis 4.32 avg rating — 667 ratings
84.
Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators
Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators 3.98 avg rating — 519 ratings
85.
In Defense of Ska
In Defense of Ska 3.86 avg rating — 379 ratings
86.
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
87.
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat
The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat 3.62 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
88.
The Final Girl Support Group
The Final Girl Support Group 3.51 avg rating — 170,949 ratings
89.
The Lathe of Heaven
The Lathe of Heaven 4.13 avg rating — 84,209 ratings
90.
The End of Bias: A Beginning
The End of Bias: A Beginning 4.21 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
91.
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
by: Sam Kean
4.01 avg rating — 9,591 ratings
92.
You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples 3.55 avg rating — 1,142 ratings
93.
This Is How You Lose the Time War
This Is How You Lose the Time War 3.85 avg rating — 308,470 ratings
94.
Afterparties
Afterparties 3.93 avg rating — 14,486 ratings
95.
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology
Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology 3.97 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
96.
Götz and Meyer
Götz and Meyer 3.96 avg rating — 573 ratings
97.
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening 3.96 avg rating — 65,660 ratings
98.
Superman Smashes the Klan
Superman Smashes the Klan 4.50 avg rating — 6,724 ratings
99.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating — 234,449 ratings