Year-End Lists

Christopher Borrelli: Best of Books 2021, as published by The Chicago Tribune, "in no particular order" but numbered as follows.

1. A Little Devil in America

   Notes in Praise of Black Performance
   Hanif Abdurraqib
2. Second Place
   Rachel Cusk
3. The Trees
   Percival Everett
4. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
   Rivka Galchen
5. When We Cease to Understand the World
   Benjamín Labatut
6. Beloved Beasts

   Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
   Michelle Nijhuis
7. 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
   Pamela Paul
8. Dirty Work

   Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
   Eyal Press
9. Smile

   The Story of a Face
   Sarah Ruhl
10. The Man Who Lived Underground
    Richard Wright