Year-End Lists

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2021
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Top 10 Books of 2021 KCRW: Michael Silverblatt

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

The Best Books of 2021 Boston Globe

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

The Best Books of 2021 Slate: Laura Miller

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

The Best Books of 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Best Fiction of 2021 Guardian

Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Wall Street Journal

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Kirkus Reviews

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

Best Fiction Books of 2021 Kirkus Reviews

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Best of Books 2021 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

Top 10 Books of 2021 Chicago Public Library

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Top 10 Books of 2021 New York Public Library

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 Washington Post

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 Washington Post

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Washington Post

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Fiction 2021 National Book Award

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Nonfiction 2021 National Book Award

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

10 Best Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

20 Favorite Books of 2021 Oprah Daily

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Powell's Books

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Best Fiction of 2021 Goldsmiths Prize

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

The 18 Best Novels of 2021 Powell's Books

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