Year-End Lists

The Guardian: Best Fiction of 2021

[see also 2020 • 2017]

• Beautiful World, Where Are You
  Sally Rooney
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Crossroads
  Jonathan Franzen
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• Palmares
  Gayl Jones
• The Women of Troy
  Pat Barker
• Oh William!
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Book of Form and Emptiness
  Ruth Ozeki
• The Magician
  Colm Tóibín
• Harlem Shuffle
  Colson Whitehead
• Painting Time
  Maylis de Kerangal
• Treacle Walker
  Alan Garner
• Cloud Cuckoo Land
  Anthony Doerr
• A Shock
  Keith Ridgway
• The Promise
  Damon Galgut
• The Fortune Men
  Nadifa Mohamed
• Light Perpetual
  Francis Spufford
• China Room
  Sunjeev Sahota
• Second Place
  Rachel Cusk
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• Assembly
  Natasha Brown
• The Manningtree Witches
  A.K. Blakemore
• Keeping the House
  Tice Cin
• Open Water
  Caleb Azumah Nelson
• Mrs Death Misses Death
  Salena Godden
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• How to Kidnap the Rich
  Rahul Raina
• Pity the Beast
  Robin McLean
• Sorrow and Bliss
  Meg Mason
• The Hummingbird
  Sandro Veronesi
• My Phantoms
  Gwendoline Riley
• Dark Neighbourhood
  Vanessa Onwuemezi
• English Magic
  Uschi Gatward
• Sterling Karat Gold
  Isabel Waidner
• Burntcoat
  Sarah Hall
• The Passenger
  Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
• Matrix
  Lauren Groff