Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021

• Afterparties
  Anthony Veasna So
• Apples Never Fall
  Liane Moriarty
• Assembly
  Natasha Brown
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
  Sally Rooney
• Black Buck
  Mateo Askaripour
• The Chosen and the Beautiful
  Nghi Vo
• The Committed
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Creatures of Passage
  Morowa Yejidé
• Damnation Spring
  Ash Davidson
• Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
  Rivka Galchen
• Fake Accounts
  Lauren Oyler
• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
  Dawnie Walton
• The Four Winds
  Kristin Hannah
• Good Company
  Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
• Great Circle
  Maggie Shipstead
• Harlem Shuffle
  Colson Whitehead
• Hell of a Book
  Jason Mott
• Hour of the Witch
  Chris Bohjalian
• How Beautiful We Were
  Imbolo Mbue
• How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
  Cherie Jones
• Hummingbird Salamander
  Jeff VanderMeer
• I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
  Claire Vaye Watkins
• Infinite Country
  Patricia Engel
• Intimacies
  Katie Kitamura
• Land of Big Numbers
  Te-Ping Chen
• Libertie
  Kaitlyn Greenidge
• The Lincoln Highway
  Amor Towles
• Lorna Mott Comes Home
  Diane Johnson
• The Magician
  Colm Tóibín
• Malibu Rising
  Taylor Jenkins Reid
• My Monticello
  Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Of Women and Salt
  Gabriela Garcia
• Oh William!
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Other Black Girl
  Zakiya Dalila Harris
• Our Country Friends
  Gary Shteyngart
• Outlawed
  Anna North
• The Personal Librarian
  Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
• The Prophets
  Robert Jones Jr.
• Rites
  Savannah Johnston
• Secrets of Happiness
  Joan Silber
• The Sentence
  Louise Erdrich
• The Sweetness of Water
  Nathan Harris
• That Summer
  Jennifer Weiner
• Velvet Was the Night
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Vixen
  Francine Prose
• Wayward
  Dana Spiotta
• What Strange Paradise
  Omar El Akkad
• With Teeth
  Kristen Arnett
• A Woman of Intelligence
  Karin Tanabe