Year-End Lists

BuzzFeed: The Best Books Of 2021

Fiction

• Afterparties
  Anthony Veasna So
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
  Sally Rooney
• The Archer
  Shruti Swamy
• What Strange Paradise
  Omar El Akkad
• The Prophets
  Robert Jones Jr.
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Somebody Loves You
  Mona Arshi
• Detransition, Baby
  Torrey Peters
• The Lost Apothecary
  Sarah Penner
• The Sentence
  Louise Erdrich
• The Committed
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Wrong End of the Telescope
  Rabih Alameddine
• Fight Night
  Miriam Toews

Nonfiction

• Things I Have Withheld
  Kei Miller
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner
• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• What Doesn't Kill You

  A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
  Tessa Miller
• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Seek You

  A Journey Through American Loneliness
  Kristen Radtke
• One Friday in April

  A Story of Suicide and Survival
  Donald Antrim
• Three Girls from Bronzeville

  A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
  Dawn Turner
• Concepcion

  An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
  Albert Samaha