Year-End Lists

The Atlantic: The 20 Best Books of 2021

• Assembly
  Natasha Brown
• Always Crashing in the Same Car

  On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California
  Matthew Specktor
• Intimacies
  Katie Kitamura
• The Right to Sex

  Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
  Amia Srinivasan
• Harrow
  Joy Williams
• Being a Human

  Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness
  Charles Foster
• Afterparties
  Anthony Veasna So
• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles
• Nervous System
  Lina Meruane
• Excavate!

  The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
  Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• What Noise Against the Cane
  Desiree C. Bailey
• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Detransition, Baby
  Torrey Peters
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner
• The Life of the Mind
  Christine Smallwood
• Invisible Child

  Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
  Andrea Elliott
• Milk Blood Heat
  Dantiel W. Moniz
• The Book of Difficult Fruit

  Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly
  Kate Lebo
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood