Year-End Lists

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2021 Books

KCRW: Michael Silverblatt: Top 10 Books of 2021

09 December 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Michael Silverblatt: Top 10 Books of 2021, as posted by KCRW, a list of favorites from the host of Bookworm

[see also 2019]

  1. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  2. Klara and the Sun
    Kazuo Ishiguro
  3. Street Cop
    Robert Coover and Art Spiegelman
  4. The Sentence
    Louise Erdrich
  5. Bewilderment
    Richard Powers
  6. Trafik
    Rikki Ducornet
  7. Heard-Hoard
    Atsuro Riley
  8. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
    In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
    George Saunders
  9. The Prophets
    Robert Jones Jr.
  10. City of a Thousand Gates
    Rebecca Sacks

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