Favorite Books Read In 2021

A backdated post from my old website (rip hacked/dead alexmanderson.com url).

2021, at age 33, I decided to start reading comics. I’ve ready a few in the past. Your Watchmen’s and what not. But other than big “Important” titles, I never really dipped into the genre. Comics always seemed too large and expansive for my completionist mind to start.

But, in the fall of 2021 I (my wife) had my first child. Babies are mostly shitty (literally) potatoes for the first months, so I ended up doing a lot of sitting/laying next to them. I found that the colorful pages of comics kept my babies eyes more than the black and white of my book pages, so I began to dive into them more and more. No better mind shaper than Junji Ito!

I still read a few non-comics in 2021, but for the most part I stuck to the more visual medium.

Ranked below in descending order are 36 of the 49 titles I read and enjoyed the most in 2021.

Favorite Books Read In 2021

36

Little Bird: The Fight for Elder’s Hope by Darcy Van Poelgeest

Pages: 200

Release Date: Nov 20, 2019

35

Hellboy Omnibus Volume 1: Seed of Destruction by Mike Mignola

Pages: 368

Release Date: May 09, 2018

34

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Pages: 444

Release Date: Oct 06, 2020

33

Far Sector by N.K. Jemisin

Pages: 305

Release Date: Oct 19, 2021

32

Astonishing X-Men Omnibus by Joss Whedon

Pages: 672

Release Date: Mar 1, 2008

31

House of M by Brian Michael Bendis

Pages: 224

Release Date: 2006

28-30

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Pages: 114

Release Date: Oct 2, 2018

28-30

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Pages: 158

Release Date: May 8, 2018

28-30

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Pages: 158

Release Date: Aug 7, 2018

26-27

Bitch Planet, Vol. 1: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Pages: 156

Release Date: July 10, 2015

26-27

Bitch Planet, Vol. 2: President Bitch by Kelly Sue DeConnick

Pages: 144

Release Date: Jun 2017

23-25

Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman

Pages: 1192

Release Date: Jul 18, 2017

23-25

Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman

Pages: 1044

Release Date: Jul 17, 2018

23-25

Secret Wars by Jonathan Hickman

Pages: 312

Release Date: Mar 2016

22

Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

Pages: 80

Release Date: Mar 1, 1998

18-21

Black Hammer, Vol. 1: Secret Origins by Jeff Lemire

Pages: 184

Release Date: Apr 25, 2017

18-21

Black Hammer, Vol. 2: The Event by Jeff Lemire

Pages: 152

Release Date: Jan 9, 2018

18-21

Black Hammer, Vol. 3: Age of Doom, Part One by Jeff Lemire

Pages: 136

Release Date: Jan 15, 2019

18-21

Black Hammer, Vol. 4: Age of Doom, Part Two by Jeff Lemire

Pages: 192

Release Date: Dec 31, 2019

17

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Pages: 496

Release Date: Aug 4, 2020

16

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster

Pages: 352

Release Date: Apr 9, 2019

12-15

Ms. Marvel Omnibus, Vol. 1 by G. Willow Wilson

Pages: 488

Release Date: Nov 15, 2016

12-15

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3 by G. Willow Wilson

Pages: 280

Release Date: Jun 27, 2017

12-15

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 4 by G. Willow Wilson

Pages: 272

Release Date: Jun 26, 2018

12-15

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 5 by G. Willow Wilson

Pages: 320

Release Date: Aug 27, 2019

11

Mister Miracle by Tom King

Pages: 320

Release Date: Feb 19, 2019

8-10

Y: The Last Man – The Deluxe Edition Book One by Brian K. Vaughan

Pages: 256

Release Date: Jan 1, 2008

8-10

Y: The Last Man – The Deluxe Edition Book Two by Brian K. Vaughan

Pages: 320

Release Date: May 6, 2009

8-10

Y: The Last Man – The Deluxe Edition Book Three by Brian K. Vaughan

Pages: 320

Release Date: Apr 27, 2010

7

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Pages: 653

Release Date: Mar 7, 2000

6

The Absolute Sandman by Neil Gaiman

Pages: 612

Release Date: Oct 01, 1990

5

Hawkeye: Omnibus by Matt Fraction

Pages: 552

Release Date: Apr 14, 2015

4

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

Pages: 722

Release Date: Mar 27, 2007

2-3

Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman

Pages: 800

Release Date: Oct 15, 2013

2-3

Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Jonathan Hickman

Pages: 832

Release Date: Nov 2014

1

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V.

Pages: 128

Release Date: Feb 01, 2022

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