Year-End Lists

Passerby: Best Books of 2021

1. Happy Hour
   Marlowe Granados
2. Animal
   Lisa Taddeo
3. Mike Nichols

   A Life
   Mark Harris
4. Cowboy Poet Madman Outlaw

   Selected Poems 1987-2020
   Val Kilmer
5. Girlhood
   Melissa Febos

Load up your reading list with the following, too

• Misfits

  A Personal Manifesto
  Michaela Coel
• Wayward
  Dana Spiotta
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• Horse Girls

  Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
  Halimah Marcus (editor)
• Viendra le temps du feu
  Wendy Delorme
• Everything Now

  Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
  Rosecrans Baldwin
• Between Two Kingdoms

  A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
  Suleika Jaouad
• Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
  Lauren Hough
• Crossroads
  Jonathan Franzen
• The Joy of Basketball

  An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game
  Ben Detrick & Andrew Kuo
• The Premonition

  A Pandemic Story
  Michael Lewis
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner