Scallydandling about the books | My best books of 2021 part 1 - short stories, nonfiction, poetry, plays, graphic novels @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
All my top rated books of 2021 in two videos. This one has everything that is not a novel. Part two with all the novels will go up on Thursday 6th January.

Graphic novels/graphic nonfiction
In, Will McPhail
Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi trans Anjali Singh

Short story collections
Great Escapes From Detroit, Joseph O'Malley
The Aleph and Other Stories, Jorge Luis Borges trans Andrew Hurley
Lifting The Veil, Ismat Chugtai trans Mohamed Asaduddin

Drama
Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Poetry - long form
Gilgamesh, A New English Version, Stephen Mitchell and The Epic of Gilgamesh trans Andrew George
Inferno, Dante Alighieri trans Robert Pinsky
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Omeros, Derek Walcott

Poetry collections
The Historians, Eavan Boland
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier
dayliGht, Roya Marsh
Poor, Caleb Femi

Non-fiction
Wayfinding, Michael Shaw Bond
84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff
Pandora's Jar, Natalie Haynes
A Dutiful Boy, Mohsin Zaidi
The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf
The Artful Dickens, John Mullan
The Years, Annie Ernaux trans Alison Strayer
Chernobyl Prayer, Svetlana Alexievich trans Anna Gurnin & Arch Tait
The Living Mountain, Nan Shepherd
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

Listen to one poem as a taster:
Poor youtu.be/fONB1em6ZDg
Whereas youtu.be/lAfKI_7ErCg