Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: 15 Favorite Books of 2021

• The Netanyahus

  An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
  Joshua Cohen
• Second Place
  Rachel Cusk
• The Copenhagen Trilogy

  Childhood; Youth; Dependency
  Tove Ditlevsen
• Libertie
  Kaitlyn Greenidge
• Heaven
  Mieko Kawakami
• Intimacies
  Katie Kitamura
• The Hard Crowd

  Essays 2000-2020
  Rachel Kushner
• The War for Gloria
  Atticus Lish
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Agatha of Little Neon
  Claire Luchette
• Mona
  Pola Oloixarac
• Phase Six
  Jim Shepard
• The Life of the Mind
  Christine Smallwood
• Harlem Shuffle
  Colson Whitehead
• Harrow
  Joy Williams