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Time: Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021

10 December 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021, as published by Time Magazine

[see also The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021]

  1. Great Circle
    Maggie Shipstead
  2. The Prophets
    Robert Jones Jr.
  3. My Monticello
    Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  4. Detransition, Baby
    Torrey Peters
  5. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  6. The Life of the Mind
    Christine Smallwood
  7. Cloud Cuckoo Land
    Anthony Doerr
  8. Afterparties
    Anthony Veasna So
  9. Open Water
    Caleb Azumah Nelson
  10. Klara and the Sun
    Kazuo Ishiguro

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