Year-End Lists

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Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit

Best Books of 2021 New Statesman

Early Morning Riser - Katherine Heiny

The 5 Best Novels of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

The Agitators - Dorothy Wickenden

The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mary Ann Gwinn

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

Favorite Books of 2021 Barack Obama

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

The Best Books of 2021 Thrillist

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri

Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

15 Favorite Books of 2021 A.V. Club

Matrix - Lauren Groff

The Best Books of 2021 Vulture: Hillary Kelly

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 Lit Hub

2021 Best Books Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

The Best Books Of 2021 BuzzFeed

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The Best Books of 2021 Economist

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Best Literary Fiction of 2021 Library Journal

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

The Best Books of 2021 USA Today

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

Top 10 Books of 2021 KCRW: Michael Silverblatt

Bewilderment - Richard Powers

The Best Books of 2021 Boston Globe

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

The Best Books of 2021 Slate: Laura Miller

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

The Best Books of 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa

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