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2021 Books
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2021
14 November 2021
Publishers Weekly
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10 Best Books of 2021
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Also from
Publishers Weekly
in 2021:
Poetry
Assembly
Natasha Brown
Second Place
Rachel Cusk
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
The War for Gloria
Atticus Lish
Wayward
Dana Spiotta
All That She Carried
The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Tiya Miles
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner
Dirty Work
Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Eyal Press
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Somebody's Daughter
Ashley C. Ford
