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2021 Books

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli: Best of Books 2021

29 November 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

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

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

  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
    Benjamin 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

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