I didn’t quite hit my Goodreads reading goal this year. I usually do. But circumstances were different this year, and that meant less reading and almost no writing. I’ve also become pickier and pickier about what I read and more and more critical, a hazard of being a writer and consuming many books.

In looking back over the 90+ books I read last year, these five-star books stood out. I didn’t double-check, but I’m fairly certain these are all 2021 releases. (Or, in the case of The Work of Our Hands, late 2020.)

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Adult Fiction

• This Life: A Murphy Brothers Story by Jennifer Rodewald

• All That Really Matters by Nicole Deese

• In a Far-Off Land by Stephanie Landsem

• Eternal Light of the Crypts: A Historical Fiction in the Ruins of Charlemagne’s Empire by Alan Van’t Land

• Love and the Silver Lining (State of Grace) by Tammy L. Gray

• In Pieces (Molly Chase Book 1) by Rhonda Ortiz

• Crumb and Punishment (A KC Crumb Mystery) by Georgiana Daniels

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Teen/Child Fiction

• The Night the Saints Saved Christmas by Gracie Jagla

• Saint Cloud of Gaul, The Prince Who Traded Kingdoms by Susan Peek

• Mazarine: A Mermaid Fairytale Romance by Cece Louise

• The Haunted Cathedral (The Harwood Mysteries) by Antony Barone Kolenc

• Do Carpenters Dream of Electric Sheep? St. Joseph’s Story as Dreamt by a Sleeping Teenage Boy (A Friends in High Places Spin-off) by Corinna Turner

• Treasures: Visible & Invisible by Catholic Teen Books authors

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Adult Nonfiction

• All Things New: Breaking the Cycle and Raising a Joyful Family by Erin McCole Cupp

• The Work of Our Hands: The Universal Gift of Creativity by Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur

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