January
■ Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics (Stephen Greenblatt; 2018. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Mirror and the Light (Hilary Mantel; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ This Is Your Time (Ruby Nell Bridges; 2020. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ Paul Robeson (Phillip Hayes Dean; 1978. Drama.) RFS
■ Do the Work (Steven Pressfield; 2011. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Scientific Method of Practicing (Timothy Hagen; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Tyranny of Merit (Michael J. Sandel; 2014. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ One of the Good Ones (Maika and Maritza Moulite; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite (Gerard Way; 2008. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ The War of Art (Steven Pressfield; 2002. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ What Is Populism? (Jan-Werner Müller; 2014. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Edward III (William Shakespeare; 1596. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Two Gentlemen of Verona (William Shakespeare; 1593. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Taming of the Shrew (William Shakespeare; 1590. Drama.) RFS *
■ Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Jung Chang; 1991. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Front Row at the Trump Show (Jonathan Karl; 2020. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald; 1925. Fiction.) RFS *
■ The War on Normal People (Andrew Yang; 2019. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Richard II (William Shakespeare; 1595. Drama.) RFS *
■ So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures (Maureen Corrigan; 2014. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Titus Andronicus (William Shakespeare; 1594. Drama.) RFS *
■ Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authority (Anne Applebaum; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy (Talia Levin; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler; 1939. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare; 1594. Drama.) RFS *
February
■ The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai (John Tayman; 2006. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Herakles (Euripides; 416 B.C. (Trans. R. Potter.) Drama.) ATY
■ The Old Guard, Book Two: Force Multiplied (Greg Rucka; 2020. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare; 1597. Drama.) RFS *
■ Parable of the Talents (Octavia Butler; 1998. Fiction.) RFS
■ Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (Zina Hitz; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ Hell Hath No Fury (Bryna Taubman; 1992. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ There There (Tommy Orange; 2018. Fiction.) RFS
■ Falstaff: Give Me Life (Harold Bloom; 1992. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Henry V (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas; 1844. Fiction.) RFS
■ Macbeth (William Shakespeare; 1606. Drama.) RFS *
■ My Man Jeeves (P.G. Wodehouse; 1919. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (Harold Bloom; 2019. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare; 1597. Drama.) RFS *
■ Hope Rides Again (Andrew Schaffer; 2019. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne; 1871. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Kindred (Octavia Butler; 1979. Fiction.) RFS
March
■ Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (Katherine May; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ We Run the Tides (Vendela Vida; 2021. Fiction.) LIB
■ Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout; 2008. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Ice (Anna Kavan; 1967. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie; 2007. Fiction.) RFS
■ Octavia Butler’s Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Damian Duffy; 2017. Fiction.) LIB
■ The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa; 2019 (1994). Fiction.) RFS
■ Love’s Labour’s Lost (William Shakespeare; 1598. Drama.) RFS *
■ Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare; 1597. Drama.) RFS *
■ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare; 1596. Drama.) RFS *
■ Olive, Again (Elizabeth Strout; 2019. Fiction.) RFS
■ Pursuit (Joyce Carol Oates; 2019. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Kate DiCamillo; 2006. Fiction.) LIB
■ Drawing Lines: An Anthology of Women Cartoonists (2021. (First published in 2006, as Sexy Chix.) Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (D.Q. McInerny May; 2004. Non-fiction.) RFS
April
■ The (Other) You (Joyce Carol Oates; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ The Mouse and His Child (Russell Hoban; 1967. Fiction.) RFS
■ Elegy for Mary Turner (Rachel Marie-Crane Williams; 2021. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
■ The Dog Stars (Peter Heller; 2012. Fiction.) RFS
■ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling; 1999. Fiction.) RFS *
■ The Glass Hotel (Emily St. John Mandel; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Gospel According to Jesus: A New Translation and Guide to His Essential Teachings for Believers and Unbelievers (Stephen Mitchell; 1993. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ War Music: An Account of Homer’s Iliad (Christopher Logue; 2015. Poetry.) RFS
■ Let the Lord Sort Them; The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty (Maurice Chammah; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith; 1955. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Your Still Beating Heart (Tyler Keevil; 2020. Fiction.) ATY
■ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling; 2000. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare; 1604. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Burning Girl (Claire Messud; 2017. Fiction.) RFS
■ Henry VI, Part One (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.) RFS *
■ Henry VI, Part Two (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.) RFS *
May
■ Henry VI, Part Three (William Shakespeare; 1591. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky; 1880. (Trans. Constance Garnett.) Fiction.) ATY
■ Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End (Jeff Lemire; 2021. Graphic fiction.) OTH
■ A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (George Saunders; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Collector of Hearts (Joyce Carol Oates; 1998. Fiction.) RFS
■ Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ Meditations (Marcus Aurelius; 180 A.D. (Trans. Gregory Hays.) Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (George Saunders; 2000. Fiction.) LIB
■ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling; 2003. Fiction.) RFS *
■ The Woman Upstairs (Claire Messud; 2013. Fiction.) RFS
■ Coriolanus (William Shakespeare; 1605. Drama.) RFS *
■ Imagine Wanting Only This (Kristen Radtke; 2017. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
■ Stag’s Leap (Sharon Olds; 2012. Poetry.) RFS
■ The Brutal Telling (Louise Penny; 2009. Fiction.) RFS
■ Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe (Ali Fitzgerald; 2018. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
■ The Last (Hanna Jameson; 2019. Fiction.) LIB
■ Richard III (William Shakespeare; 1594. Drama.) RFS *
■ To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf; 1927. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Book Tour (Andi Watson; 2019. Graphic fiction.) LIB
June
■ Know My Name: A Memoir (Chanel Miller; 2019. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling; 2005. Fiction.) RFS *
■ The Goshawk (T.H. White; 1951. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Leave the World Behind (Rumaan Alam; 2020. Fiction.) ATY
■ Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison; 1952. Fiction.) RFS
■ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling; 2007. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912 (Owen McCafferty; 2012. Drama.) RFS
■ Much Ado about Nothing (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ Chicago Poems (Carl Sandburg; 1916. Poetry.) RFS
■ The Jungle (Upton Sinclair; 1906. Fiction.) RFS
■ King John (William Shakespeare; 1595. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Jungle (Kristina Gehrmann; 2019. Graphic fiction.) RFS
■ Outcast, Vol. 8: The Merged (Kirkman and Azaceta; 2021. Graphic fiction.) OTH
■ Saint X (Alexis Schaitkin; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Secret to Superhuman Strength (Alison Bechdel; 2021. Graphic non-fiction.) ATY
July
■ Hawking (Ottaviani and Myrick; 2019. Graphic non-fiction.) ATY
■ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (J.K. Rowling; 2001. Fiction.) RFS *
■ As You Like It (William Shakespeare; 1599. Drama.) RFS *
■ Family Tree, Vol. 3: Forest (Jeff Lemire; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Sam Quinones; 2015. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Trojan Women (Euripides): A Comic (Anne Carson; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Fox 8 (George Saunders; 2015. Fiction.) LIB
■ Bury Your Dead (Louise Penny; 2010. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings (Sy Montgomery; 2021. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Scott Newstok; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Hamlet (William Shakespeare; 1601. Drama.) RFS *
■ Trojan Women (Euripides; 415 B.C. (Trans. E. P. Coleridge.) Drama.) ATY
■ Antigone (Sophocles; 441 B.C. (Trans. Don Taylor.) Drama.) ATY
■ Home Fire (Kamila Shamsie; 2017. Fiction.) RFS
■ Postcard Poems (Jeanne Griggs; 2021. Poetry.) ATY
■ Hamnet (Maggie O’Farrell; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Dead Fathers Club (Matt Haig; 2006. Fiction.) RFS
■ Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called “Alien” (Jeremy N. Smith; 2019. Non-fiction.) RFS
August
■ The House in the Cerulean Sea (TJ Klune; 2020. Fiction.) ATY
■ Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America (Alec MacGillis; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials (Marc Aronson; 2003. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Odessa (Jonathan Hill; 2020. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ The Hard Tomorrow (Eleanor Davis; 2019. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Gilead (Marilynne Robinson; 2004. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Turnout (Megan Abbott; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ A Trick of the Light (Louise Penny; 2011. Fiction.) ATY
■ Medea (Euripides; 431 B.C. (Trans. D. Raynor.) Drama.)
■ Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare; 1601. Drama.) RFS *
■ Sweet Tooth: The Return (Jeff Lemire; 2021. Graphic fiction.) ATY
■ The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives (Dashka Slater; 2017. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Middlemarch (George Eliot; 1871. Fiction.) RFS *
■ My Life in Middlemarch (Rebecca Mead; 2014. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness (Kristen Radtke; 2021. Graphic non-fiction.) LIB
■ Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare; 1602. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Plot (Jean Hanff Korelitz; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
September
■ It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be (Lizzy Stewart; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Candide (Voltaire; 1759. (Trans. John Butt; 1947.) Fiction.)
■ Green Shadows, White Whale (Ray Bradbury; 1992. Fiction.) RFS
■ Othello (William Shakespeare; 1603. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Taste of Sugar (Marisel Vega; 2020. Fiction.) ATY
■ Timon of Athens (William Shakespeare; 1606. Drama.) RFS *
■ Dream Girl (Laura Lippman; 2021. Fiction.) LIB
■ Clouds (Aristophanes; 423 B.C. (Trans. I. Johnston.) Drama.) ATY
■ The Beautiful Mystery (Louise Penny; 2012. Fiction.) LIB
■ Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy; 2020. Fiction.) RFS
■ Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals (Oliver Burkeman; 2021. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ How the Light Gets In (Louise Penny; 2013. Fiction.) LIB
■ The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe (Josh Mitchell; 2021. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare; 1607. Drama.) RFS *
■ The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros; 1984. Fiction.) RFS
October
■ Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (Carl Smith; 2020. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Undocumented Americans (Karla Cornejo Villavicencio; 2020. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Complete Tales (Beatrix Potter; 2002 edition. Fiction.) RFS
■ The Two Noble Kinsmen (William Shakespeare; 1612. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed (Wendy Lower; 2021. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ The Long Way Home (Louise Penny; 2014. Fiction.) LIB
■ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut; 1965. Fiction.) RFS *
■ The Push (Ashley Audrain; 2021. Fiction.) LIB
■ The Nature of the Beast (Louise Penny; 2015. Fiction.) LIB
■ The Optician of Lampedusa (Emma-Jane Kirby; 2016. Fiction.) ATY
■ Henry VIII (William Shakespeare; 1613. Drama.) RFS *
■ Pericles (William Shakespeare; 1609. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Great Reckoning (Louise Penny; 2016. Fiction.) LIB
■ Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert; 1857. (Trans. Lydia Davis; 2010.) Fiction.) RFS *
November
■ The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Louis Menand; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Glass Houses (Louise Penny; 2017. Fiction.) LIB
■ Ascender, Vol. 4: Star Seed (Jeff Lemire; 2021. Graphic fiction.) LIB
■ Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone (Trans. Bryan Doerries; 2021. Drama.) ATY
■ Cymbeline (William Shakespeare; 1608. Drama.) RFS *
■ All’s Well That Ends Well (William Shakespeare; 1608. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene; 1940. Fiction.) ATY
■ Franci’s War: A Woman’s Story of Survival (Franci Rabinek Epstein; 2020. Non-fiction.) LIB
■ Faust (Goethe; 1808 (Trans. Margaret Kirby; 2015.) Drama.) ATY
■ What Happened to Paula: On the Death of an American Girl (Katherine Dykstra; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy; 1886. Fiction.) ATY
■ The Inferno of Dante (Dante Alighieri; 1320. (Trans. Robert Pinsky; 1995.) Poetry.) RFS
■ Kingdom of the Blind (Louise Penny; 2018. Fiction.) LIB
■ Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (Linda Lear; 2007. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ The Winter’s Tale (William Shakespeare; 1610. Drama.) RFS *
■ The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi; 2020. Fiction.) ATY
■ The Tempest (William Shakespeare; 1610. Drama.) RFS *
■ King Lear (William Shakespeare; 1606. Drama.) RFS *
December
■ Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace (Yiyun Li; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy; 1869. Fiction.) RFS *
■ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Unknown; 14th century. (Trans. J.R.R. Tolkien; 1975.) Poetry.) RFS
■ A Better Man (Louise Penny; 2019. Fiction.) LIB
■ In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love (Joseph Luzzi; 2015. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Maggie Nelson; 2021. Non-fiction.) ATY
■ Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman; 2011. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Our Country Friends (Gary Shteyngart; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ Uncle Vanya (Anton Chekhov; 1898. (Trans. Peter Carson; 2002.) Drama.) RFS
■ All the Devils Are Here (Louise Penny; 2020. Fiction.) LIB
■ Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked (James Lasdun; 2013. Non-fiction.) RFS
■ Brown Girl Dreaming (Jacqueline Woodson; 2014. Poetry.) LIB
■ Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ The Madness of Crowds (Louise Penny; 2021. Fiction.) ATY
■ Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan; 2021. Fiction.) LIB
■ Uncanny Valley (Anna Wiener; 2020. Non-fiction.) RFS
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ATY Acquired this year
LIB Borrowed from library (including Hoopla and Overdrive)
OTH Other
RFS Read from shelves
* Denotes a reread