BIHR 2021

UPDATE: ONLY 75 BOOKS READ THIS YEAR!!! WOWWWWWW PATHETIC!!!!!

  1. The Only Good Indians — Stephen Graham Jones. 7/10
  2. Mexican Gothic — Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 9/10
  3. Goodnight Beautiful — Aimee Molloy. 8/10
  4. The Grace Year — Kim Liggett. 7.5/10
  5. Foe — Iain Reid. 8.5/10
  6. Luster — Raven Leilani. 7.5/10
  7. Little Eyes — Samanta Schweblin. 9/10
  8. Billion Dollar Loser — Reeves Wiedeman. 7.5/10
  9. Scythe — Neal Shusterman. 8.5/10
  10. The Preserve — Ariel S Winter. 8.5/10
  11. White Ivy — Susie Yang. 9/10
  12. What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat — Aubrey Gordon. 7.5/10
  13. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows — Balli Kaur Jaswal. 7.5/10
  14. Caliban’s War — James SA Corey. 8/10
  15. The Captives — Debra Jo Immergut. 7/10
  16. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars — Christopher Paolini. 7/10 
  17. Songs for the End of the World — Saleema Nawaz. 8.5/10 
  18. Winter Counts — David Heska Wanbli Weiden. 8/10
  19. Pretty as a Picture — Elizabeth Little. 7.5/10
  20. Consent — Vanessa Springora. 8/10
  21. Fever Dream — Samanta Schweblin. 9/10
  22. Every Last Fear — Alex Finlay. 8.5/10
  23. The Push — Ashley Audrain. 8.5/10
  24. The Gilded Ones — Namina Forna. 7.5/10
  25. How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue. 8.5/10
  26. Thunderhead — Neal Shusterman. 8.5/10
  27. Later — Stephen King. 7.5/10
  28. The Survivors — Jane Harper. 7.5/10
  29. The Third Pole — Mark Synott. 8.5/10
  30. All Girls — Emily Lauren. 7.5/10
  31. You Love Me — Caroline Kepnes. 7.5/10
  32. The Ratline — Philippe Sands. 8/10
  33. Hour of the Witch — Chris Bohjalian. 7/10
  34. In the Dream House — Carmen Maria Machado. 8/10 
  35. We Are Satellites — Sarah Pinsker. 7.5/10
  36. The End of October — Lawrence Wright. 8/10
  37. Her Body and Other Parties — Carmen Maria Machado. 7.5/10
  38. Good Neighbors — Sarah Langan. 7.5/10
  39. The Plot — Jean Hanff Korelitz. 7.5/10
  40. Klara and the Sun —Kazuo Ishiguro. 8/10
  41. The Warehouse — Rob Hart. 8/10
  42. The Toll — Neal Shusterman. 8.5/10
  43. The Others — Sarah Blau. 7/10
  44. Delicious Foods — James Hannaham. 8.5/10
  45. Abaddon’s Gate — James SA Corey. 8.5/10
  46. The Maidens — Alex Michaelides. 7.5/10
  47. The Kindest Lie — Nancy Johnson. 6/10
  48. Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir. 7/10
  49. The Upstairs House — Julia Fine. 8.5/10
  50. Such a Quiet Place — Megan Miranda. 7/10
  51. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line — Deepa Anappara. 8/10
  52. The Final Girl Support Group — Grady Hendrix. 8/10 
  53. Spin — Robert Charles Wilson. 8.5/10
  54. Billy Summers — Stephen King. 7/10
  55. Fierce Little Thing — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore. 7.5/10
  56. The Last Thing He Told Me — Laura Dave. 7.5/10
  57. The Changeling — Victor Lavalle. 8/10
  58. We Were Never Here — Andrea Bartz. 7.5/10
  59. Cibola Burn — James SA Corey. 8.5/10
  60. Little Secrets — Jennifer Hillier. 7.5/10
  61. Something New Under the Sun — Alexandra Kleeman. 8.5/10
  62. The Missing Hours — Julia Dahl. 7.5/10
  63. Nemesis Games — James SA Corey. 9/10
  64. Sand Castle — Frederick Peters & Pierre Oscar Lévy. 9/10
  65. My Sweet Girl — Amanda Jayatissa. 8/10
  66. The Night She Disappeared — Lisa Jewell. 7.5/10
  67. The Damage — Caitlin Wahrer. 7.5/10
  68. American War — Omar El Akkad. 9/10
  69. The Other Black Girl — Zakiya Dalila Harris. 7.5/10
  70. Jar of Hearts — Jennifer Hillier. 7.5/10
  71. The Good Sister — Sally Hepworth. 7/10
  72. The Days of Afrekete — Asali Solomon. 8/10
  73. Crossroads — Jonathan Franzen. 8/10
  74. Malibu Rising — Taylor Jenkins Reid. 7/10
  75. The Best American Short Stories 2017 — edited by Meg Wolitzer. 7/10