The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of (2021) [Collection]
English | ISBN: N/A | 100 Ebooks | EPUB | 2021 | 1.08 GB
English | ISBN: N/A | 100 Ebooks | EPUB | 2021 | 1.08 GB
100 Notable Books of 2021: The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review .
* indicates Ten Best list
- Afterparties: Stories - Anthony Veasna So. (Ecco)
- Appleseed - Matt Bell. (Custom House)
- Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Bewilderment - Richard Powers. (W.W. Norton)
- The Book of Mother - Violaine Huisman Translated by Leslie Camhi. (Scribner)
- Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith. (Random House)
- Burnt Sugar - Avni Doshi. (The Overlook Press)
- A Calling for Charlie Barnes - Joshua Ferris. (Little, Brown & Company)
- Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth - Wole Soyinka. (Pantheon)
- Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr. (Scribner)
- Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters. (One World)
- Ghosts of New York - Jim Lewis. (Paperback West Virginia University Press)
- Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday)
- * How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue. (Random House)
- * Intimacies - Katie Kitamura. (Riverhead)
- Kink: Stories - Edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell. (Paperback Simon & Schuster)
- Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Libertie - Kaitlyn Greenidge. (Algonquin)
- A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself - Peter Ho Davies. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Light Perpetual - Francis Spufford. (Scribner)
- The Lincoln Highway - Amor Towles. (Viking)
- * The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. (HarperCollins)
- The Magician - Colm Toibin. (Scribner)
- The Morning Star - Karl Ove Knausgaard Translated by Martin Aitken. (Penguin Press)
- My Monticello: Fiction - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. (Henry Holt)
- My Year Abroad - Chang-rae Lee. (Riverhead)
- The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family - Joshua Cohen. (Paperback New York Review Books)
- * No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead)
- Oh William! - Elizabeth Strout. (Random House)
- One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston. (Paperback St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Our Country Friends - Gary Shteyngart. (Random House)
- Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems - Rita Dove. (W.W. Norton)
- The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz. (Celadon)
- The Promise - Damon Galgut. (Europa)
- The Prophets - Robert Jones Jr.. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- Razorblade Tears - S.A. Cosby. (Flatiron)
- Send for Me - Lauren Fox. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- The Sentence - Louise Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCollins)
- Something New Under the Sun - Alexandra Kleeman. (Hogarth)
- Strange Beasts of China - Yan Ge Translated by Jeremy Tiang. (Melville House)
- The Sun Collective - Charles Baxter. (Pantheon)
- The Trees - Percival Everett. (Paperback Graywolf)
- Velvet Was the Night - Silvia Moreno-Garcia. (Del Rey)
- The War for Gloria - Atticus Lish. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Wayward - Dana Spiotta. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akkad. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- * When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut Translated by Adrian Nathan West. (Paperback New York Review Books)
- Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems - Louise Glück. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels - India Holton. (Paperback Berkley)
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler - Rebecca Donner. (Little, Brown)
- America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present - John Ghazvinian. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s - Elizabeth Hinton. (Liveright)
- American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption - Gabrielle Glaser. (Viking)
- The American War in Afghanistan: A History - Carter Malkasian. (Oxford University Press)
- Beautiful Country: A Memoir - Qian Julie Wang. (Doubleday)
- Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville - Akash Kapur. (Scribner)
- Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted - Suleika Jaouad. (Random House)
- Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour - Neal Gabler. (Crown)
- The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel - Kati Marton. (Simon & Schuster)
- Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill - Geoffrey Wheatcroft. (W.W. Norton)
- The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power - Max Chafkin. (Penguin Press)
- * The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency - Tove Ditlevsen Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman.. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Crying in H Mart: A Memoir - Michelle Zauner. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America - Eyal Press. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America - Christine Leigh Heyrman. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe. (Doubleday)
- The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage - Sasha Issenberg. (Pantheon)
- Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage - Eleanor Henderson. (Flatiron)
- The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain - Annie Murphy Paul. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- The Family Roe: An American Story - Joshua Prager. (W.W. Norton)
- Festival Days - Jo Ann Beard. (Little, Brown)
- The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War - Louis Menand. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ni Ghriofa. (Paperback Biblioasis)
- * How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America - Clint Smith. (Little, Brown)
- How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America - Kiese Laymon. (Paperback Scribner)
- I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography - John Thompson with Jesse Washington. (Henry Holt)
- * Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City - Andrea Elliott. (Random House)
- JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 - Fredrik Logevall. (Random House)
- Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art - Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Bloomsbury Sigma)
- Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal - George Packer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Let Me Tell You What I Mean - Joan Didion. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 - Sarah Schulman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive - Carl Zimmer. (Dutton)
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance - Hanif Abdurraqib. (Random House)
- New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation - Thomas Dyja. (Simon & Schuster)
- Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir - Christopher Sorrentino. (Catapult)
- On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint - Maggie Nelson. (Graywolf)
- * On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed. (Liveright)
- People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present - Dara Horn. (W.W. Norton)
- Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir - Brian Broome. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park With George” - James Lapine. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- * Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture - Randall Kennedy. (Pantheon)
- The Secret to Superhuman Strength - Alison Bechdel. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir - Kat Chow. (Grand Central)
- Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir - Ashley C. Ford. (Flatiron)
- Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood - Dawn Turner. (Simon & Schuster)
- A Whole World: Letters From James Merrill - Edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser. (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America - John McWhorter. (Portfolio)