Year-End Lists

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

Books
No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

A.V. Club 15 Favorite Books of 2021

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Hillary Kelly: New York The Best Books of 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Lit Hub Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 2021 Best Books

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

BuzzFeed The Best Books Of 2021

Bewilderment - Richard Powers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20 Favorite New Books of 2021

Economist The Best Books of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Library Journal Best Literary Fiction of 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Dennis Cooper Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Annabel Gutterman: Time The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

USA Today The Best Books of 2021

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

Michael Silverblatt: KCRW Top 10 Books of 2021

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

Boston Globe The Best Books of 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Laura Miller: Slate The Best Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Annabel Gutterman: Time The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

The Five Wounds - Kirstin Valdez Quade

The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer The Best Books of 2021

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

Guardian Best Fiction of 2021

Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2021

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

Kirkus Best Fiction Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Best of Books 2021