Year-End Lists

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A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli Best of Books 2021

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

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Claire Vaye Watkins

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

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

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Oprah Daily 20 Favorite Books of 2021

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Powell's Books The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2021

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

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 Prize Nonfiction 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Kirkus Prize 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

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2021

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Bustle The Best Books Of 2020

Notes on a Silencing - Lacy Crawford

BookPage Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

BookPage Best Books of 2020: Fiction

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