Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2024
The Independent: Best Fiction Books of 2024
Economist: The Best Films of 2024
more...
2021 Books
Atlantic: The 20 Best Books of 2021
28 December 2021
The Atlantic
:
The 20 Best Books of 2021
[see also
2023
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2022
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2019
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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
