My ten favourites of 2021.

10 Books That Helped Me Survive 2021

From Absent in the Spring to Things Fall Apart — and everything in between.

Ernesta Orlovaitė
9 min readDec 31, 2021

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In many ways, 2021 was an extraordinary year. I spent a good chunk of it hunkered down in a tiny studio apartment in Manchester, probably the rainiest city in the world. I had no human contact, no winter jacket, and no job. If it wasn’t for books, I would have lost my sanity…

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Ernesta Orlovaitė

Bookworm (but I sometimes go on real adventures) · Obsessive thinker · Inconsistent writer · “You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” — Douglas Adams