Reading & Restaurants: The Best of 2021

If you've been reading The Strong Buzz for a while, you know there are a couple of things that are constants in my life: reading and restaurants. Sure, lately running and piano playing come in there too, but harder to put into "best of" list form. I think my kids would say Moonlight Sonata and Easy On Me are my best played pieces though they'd rather never hear me play them again.

Anyway, if you're looking for a book or a place to eat, check out my lists and feel free to share your faves with me! Drop me a note at andrea@andreastrong.com.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Andrea

BEST BOOKS OF 2021

• The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller BUY on Bookshop

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, BUY on Bookshop

• What's Mine and Yours By Naima Coster, BUY on Bookshop

• The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig BUY on Bookshop

• Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid BUY on Bookshop

• Oh William, by Elizabeth Strout BUY on Bookshop

• Bewilderment, by Richard Powers BUY on Bookshop

• The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, BUY on Bookshop

• Yesterday a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, by Hilma Wolitzer BUY on Bookshop

• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, BUY on Bookshop

• The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult, BUY on Bookshop

• The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris BUY on Bookshop

On my nightstand right now:

The Sentence, by Louise Erdich

Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen

I Love You But I have Chosen Darkness, by Claire Vaye Watkins

To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara

BEST MEALS 2021

• Shukette

• Saga

• Ci Siamo

• Gage & Tolner

• Victor

• Fulgurances Laundromat

• Colonie

• King

• Popina

On my list:

• Francie

• Dame

• Carne Mare

• Rule of Thirds

• Hawksmoor