Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit

Best Books of 2021 New Statesman

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

The 5 Best Novels of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

The Agitators - Dorothy Wickenden

The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mary Ann Gwinn

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Favorite Books of 2021 Barack Obama

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

The Best Books of 2021 Thrillist

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri

Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

15 Favorite Books of 2021 A.V. Club

Matrix - Lauren Groff

The Best Books of 2021 Vulture: Hillary Kelly

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 Lit Hub

2021 Best Books Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

The Best Books Of 2021 BuzzFeed

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

20 Favorite New Books of 2021 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Best Books of 2021 Economist

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Best Literary Fiction of 2021 Library Journal

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Matrix - Lauren Groff

The Best Books of 2021 USA Today

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

Top 10 Books of 2021 KCRW: Michael Silverblatt

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

The Best Books of 2021 Boston Globe

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

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

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Best Books of 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa