Year-End Lists

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

Books
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2021

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2021

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Best of Books 2021

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

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

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

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

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

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

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

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Dublin Literary Award 2021

Luster - Raven Leilani

Dylan Thomas Prize 2021 Award

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2021