Year-End Lists

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021

Fiction

• How Beautiful We Were
  Imbolo Mbue
• Intimacies
  Katie Kitamura
• When We Cease to Understand the World
  Benjamín Labatut
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction

• Red Comet

  The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
  Heather Clark
• How the Word Is Passed

  A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  Clint Smith
• On Juneteenth
  Annette Gordon-Reed
• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
  Andrea Elliott
• The Copenhagen Trilogy

  Childhood; Youth; Dependency
  Tove Ditlevsen