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  1. Best Fiction 2021

    WINNER 69,770 votes. Beautiful World, Where Are You. by. Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author) Irish author Sally Rooney wins this year's Best Fiction award for her celebrated novel on the complexities of romance, sex, and friendship on our swiftly tilting planet. A kind of deep-focus love quadrangle story, the book clearly hit a nerve for readers.

  2. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021

    Here, the top 10 fiction books of 2021. 10. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro. The eighth novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, longlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a robot ...

  3. The Best Books of 2021

    The 10 Best Books of 2021. Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Share full article. 663. Nov. 30, 2021.

  4. Best Fiction of 2021

    The Best Fiction of 2021: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Maya Jasanoff. This year the Booker Prize finalists include new work from previous shortlistees Richard Powers and Damon Galgut, a sweeping historical novel by Maggie Shipstead, and a fragmentary account of a life lived 'extremely online.'. Maya Jasanoff, Harvard historian ...

  5. The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021

    The 100 Must-Read Books of 2021. The fiction, nonfiction and poetry that shifted our perspectives, uncovered essential truths and encouraged us forward. Annabel Gutterman, Cady Lang, Arianna ...

  6. Times Critics' Top Books of 2021

    41. Jessica White/The New York Times. Dec. 15, 2021. This was a remarkably rich and capacious year for nonfiction. While we all continued to grapple with urgent developing news about the ...

  7. The Award-Winning Novels of 2021 ‹ Literary Hub

    Awarded for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the UK. Prize money: £50,000. Damon Galgut, The Promise. (Europa Editions) "Damon Galgut's remarkable new novel, The Promise, suggests that the demands of history and the answering cry of the novel can still powerfully converge.

  8. 100 Notable Books of 2021

    By Kaitlyn Greenidge $26.95 Algonquin. Fiction. Based on the lives of Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York State, and her daughter, Greenidge's second novel ...

  9. Maureen Corrigan's 2021 Best Books list : NPR

    Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan says 2021 was a spectacular year for literary fiction. As such, her annual Best Books list is exclusively composed of novels and short story collections.

  10. The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2021 ‹ Literary Hub

    Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub's "Rotten Tomatoes for books.". *. 1. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. (FSG) 27 Rave • 26 Positive • 25 Mixed • 2 Pan. Listen to an excerpt from Beautiful World, Where Are You here. "… wise, romantic, and ultimately consoling …. Once again, Rooney has drawn a circumscribed ...

  11. The Best Books We Read in 2021

    The fiction and nonfiction, old and new, that saw us through the year. By The New Yorker. December 13, 2021. Illustration by June Park. " De Gaulle ," by Julian Jackson. 2021 in Review. New ...

  12. 2021 books: Best fiction of the year

    Best feel-good books of 2021. A soaring work of historical fiction about a "lady pilot" in the mid-20th century intertwines with the tale of a modern-day celebrity portraying the trailblazer ...

  13. The 20 Best Books of 2021

    All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, by Tiya Miles. Random House. In 2007, a woman shopping at a flea market in Nashville came across a cotton sack ...

  14. Some of the NPR staff's favorite books of 2021 from Books We Love : NPR

    The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life by Kyle Beachy. "The year 2021 is the year of skateboarding. The "rebel" pursuit was transformed into an Olympic sport. Thrasher magazine ...

  15. The Best Books of 2021

    8. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles. Photo: Publisher. The stories of enslaved Black Americans are still far too scarce, lost to time by ...

  16. List of The New York Times number-one books of 2021

    The New York Times. number-one books of 2021. The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

  17. The 16 Best Fiction Books of 2021

    Simon & Schuster Aftershocks. $16.89 at amazon.com. So this one is actually not a fiction book, but we couldn't not include—it's that good. Nadia Owusu's powerful memoir chronicles her nomadic ...

  18. The 10 Best Books of 2021

    The 10 Best Books of 2021. Selected by the editors of the Journal's books pages, the year's most distinguished works of fiction and nonfiction. Illustration by Sam Chivers for The Wall Street ...

  19. The Best Books of 2021: Fiction

    How to Kill Your Family: Exclusive Edition (Hardback) Bella Mackie. £14.99. Hardback. Out of stock. The journalist and author of Jog On delivers a scorchingly black satire of family dysfunction and the media's obsession with murder, as the engaging anti-hero Grace reveals the full extent of her gleeful homicidal spree.

  20. Amazon.com: Best Books of the Year So Far: Books

    More about Amazon.com's best books of the year so far. All year, Amazon.com's editorial team reads with an eye for the best books of the month, plus the best books in popular categories including cookbooks, food & wine, literature & fiction, children's books, mystery, thriller & suspense, romance, science fiction & fantasy, teens, and more.We scour reviews and book news for early tips on what ...

  21. Best Sellers

    The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week, including fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks ...

  22. 35 Best Thriller Books of All Time

    17. The Chalk Man by C.J. Tudor (2018) Tudor is a master of the psychological thriller, so much so that even Stephen King told his loyal readers, "If you like my stuff, you'll like this," so ...

  23. Best Books of the Month: Literature & Fiction @ Amazon.com

    Discover the best literature and fiction books of November, hand-picked by the Amazon Books Editors. Whether you are looking for historical fiction, romance, thrillers, or literary gems, you will find something to suit your taste and mood. Browse the editors' choices and get early access to new books with Amazon First Reads.

  24. 50 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

    Named one of the New York Times's Best Books of 2021 and one of Time's Best Nonfiction Books of 2021, How the Word Is Passed examines the many monuments, locations, and even whole ...

  25. The Best Mystery Books of 2024 (so far)

    by S.A. Cosby. ☆ Shortlisted for the 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. 🏆 An AudioFile Best Mystery/Suspense Audiobook of 2023. All the Sinners Bleed (2023) is the latest book by S.A. Cosby, a writer of crime novels set in the Southern United States. In this book, thankfully, the main character is on the right side of the law: he's a former FBI ...

  26. Barack Obama Shares His 13 Favorite Books of 2021

    Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris. Intimacies by Katie Kitamura. [h/t ...

  27. This week's bestsellers at Southern California's independent bookstores

    4. Fire in the Hole!: The Untold Story of My Traumatic Life and Explosive Success: Bob Parsons. 5. Somehow: Thoughts on Love: Anne Lamott. 6. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder ...

  28. 20 New Works of Fiction to Read This Season (Published 2021)

    Set over a 10-day stretch in 1954, this new novel from the author of "A Gentleman in Moscow" follows a teenager trying to rebuild his life. Emmett has returned to Nebraska after serving a ...

  29. The 8 Best Books 2024 So Far

    We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. From buzzy biographies to literary fiction, mysteries, memoirs, and everything in between, here are the best books of 2024—so far ...