Year-End Lists

Thrillist: The Best Books of 2021

[see also 2020]

• A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

  In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
  George Saunders
• Black Buck
  Mateo Askaripour
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner
• Detransition, Baby
  Torrey Peters
• Great Circle
  Maggie Shipstead
• Heaven
  Mieko Kawakami
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Last Graduate
  Naomi Novik
• The Life of the Mind
  Christine Smallwood
• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Lurkers
  Sandi Tan
• Milk Fed
  Melissa Broder
• Mona
  Pola Oloixarac
• Nightbitch
  Rachel Yoder
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  Quentin Tarantino
• Peaces
  Helen Oyeyemi
• The Plot
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Second Place
  Rachel Cusk
• Something New Under the Sun
  Alexandra Kleeman
• The Twilight Zone
  Nona Fernández
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira

  Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
  Cassandra Peterson