Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Favorite Novels of 2021

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top 3 Novels of the Year

• Intimacies
  Katie Kitamura
• Detransition, Baby
  Torrey Peters
• Nightbitch
  Rachel Yoder

Other Favorite Novels

• Appleseed
  Matt Bell
• Civilizations
  Laurent Binet
• Milk Fed
  Melissa Broder
• Second Place
  Rachel Cusk
• Infinite Country
  Patricia Engel
• The Twilight Zone
  Nona Fernández
• Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
  Rivka Galchen
• Libertie
  Kaitlyn Greenidge
• Matrix
  Lauren Groff
• Klara and the Sun
  Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Prophets
  Robert Jones Jr.
• Several People Are Typing
  Calvin Kasulke
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• The Atmospherians
  Alex McElroy
• We Are Watching Eliza Bright
  A.E. Osworth
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
  Sally Rooney
• Gold Diggers
  Sanjena Sathian
• Great Circle
  Maggie Shipstead
• The Life of the Mind
  Christine Smallwood
• Animal
  Lisa Taddeo
• Harrow
  Joy Williams
• Win Me Something
  Kyle Lucia Wu