Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

Guardian Best Fiction of 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2021

The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2021

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2021

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Best of Books 2021

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

National Book Award Fiction 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

National Book Award Nonfiction 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Oprah Daily 20 Favorite Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Powell's Books The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2021

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

Powell's Books The 18 Best Novels of 2021

The Promise - Damon Galgut

The Booker Prize 2021 Award

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Kirkus Reviews Fiction 2021

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Women's Prize Fiction 2021