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The Most Recommended Books of 2021

We counted 5,616 entries from 140 sources in 2021. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe appeared on 26, 5 more than any other book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2021 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

26 sources

  1. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

21 sources

  1. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead

  2. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

20 sources

  1. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood

18 sources

  1. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

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

17 sources

  1. How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

16 sources

  1. Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

15 sources

  1. A Little Devil in America: Notes In Praise Of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

  2. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

  3. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

  4. Matrix by Lauren Groff

14 sources

  1. All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

  2. Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert

13 sources

  1. Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So

  2. Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

12 sources

  1. Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

  2. Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

  3. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby

11 sources

  1. Bewilderment by Richard Powers

  2. From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo

  3. My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

  4. The 1619 Project: Born on the Water by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson

  5. The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

  6. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

  7. Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford and Floyd Cooper

10 sources

  1. Second Place by Rachel Cusk

  2. Seek You by Kristen Radtke

  3. Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

  4. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris

9 sources

  1. A Ghost In the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

  2. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

  3. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley

  4. Fuzz by Mary Roach

  5. Harrow by Joy Williams

  6. Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

  7. The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris

  8. Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  9. Watercress by Andrea Wang and Jason Chin

8 sources

  1. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard

  2. Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

  3. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness: A Novel by Claire Vaye Watkins

  4. Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

  5. Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

  6. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

  7. Nina: A Story of Nina Simone by Traci N. Todd

  8. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

  9. On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed

  10. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

  11. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

  12. Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon

  13. Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

  14. The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez Quade

  15. The Promise by Damon Galgut

  16. The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel

7 sources

  1. A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia

  2. A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

  3. Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

  4. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner

  5. Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

  6. In Memory of Memory: A Romance by Maria Stepanova

  7. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

  8. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn

  9. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

  10. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

  11. The Code Breaker by Walter Isaacson

  12. The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  13. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

  14. The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe

  15. The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.

  16. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

  17. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

  18. The Turnout: A Novel by Megan Abbott

  19. Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff

  20. Too Small Tola by Atinuke

  21. What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy

  22. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut

  23. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden

6 sources

  1. A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen

  2. Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

  3. All Thirteen by Christina Soontornvat

  4. Assembly by Natasha Brown

  5. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

  6. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

  7. Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

  8. How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

  9. Land of Big Numbers by Te-Ping Chen

  10. Legacy by Nikki Grimes

  11. Me (Moth) by Amber McBride

  12. Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña

  13. No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

  14. On Freedom by Maggie Nelson

  15. Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

  16. Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome

  17. Seven Days in June by Tia Williams

  18. Smile by Sarah Ruhl

  19. The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear

  20. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo

  21. The Dangers of Smoking In Bed: Stories by Mariana Enriquez

  22. The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

  23. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

  24. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

  25. The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor

  26. The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney

  27. The Magician by Colm Tóibín

  28. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

  29. Wayward by Dana Spiotta

  30. What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

5 sources

  1. A Lot Like Adiós by Alexis Daria

  2. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

  3. Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

  4. America on Fire by Elizabeth Hinton

  5. Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

  6. Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood by Kwame Mbalia

  7. Bolla by Pajtim Statovci

  8. Borders by Thomas King and Natasha Donovan

  9. Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

  10. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka

  11. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

  12. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

  13. Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

  14. Fight Night by Miriam Toews

  15. Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

  16. Girlhood by Melissa Febos

  17. Himawari House by Harmony Becker

  18. Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer

  19. Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

  20. Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest by Phoebe Wahl

  21. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  22. Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

  23. Milk Fed by Melissa Broder

  24. On the Trapline by David A. Robertson and Julie Flett

  25. Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit

  26. Outlawed: A Novel by Anna North

  27. People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

  28. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  29. Root Magic by Eden Royce

  30. Silverview by John le Carré

  31. Starfish by Lisa Fipps

  32. Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

  33. The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin

  34. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen

  35. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

  36. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

  37. The Genius Under the Table: Growing up Behind the Iron Curtain by Eugene Yelchin

  38. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

  39. The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

  40. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen

  41. The Night Walk by Marie Dorléans

  42. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

  43. The People’s Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice With Art by Cynthia Levinson

  44. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  45. The Removed by Brandon Hobson

  46. The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan

  47. The Trees by Percival Everett

  48. The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández

  49. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

  50. Unbound by Tarana Burke

  51. Wishes by Mượn Thị Văn

4 sources

  1. 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei

  2. A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris

  3. A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

  4. A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg

  5. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

  6. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

  7. Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz

  8. An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky

  9. And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall

  10. Appleseed by Matt Bell

  11. Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

  12. Billy Summers by Stephen King

  13. Black Birds in the Sky by Brandy Colbert

  14. Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

  15. Blind Vigil by Matt Coyle

  16. Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

  17. Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls by Kaela Rivera

  18. Clark and Division by Naomi Hirahara

  19. Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today by Alice Wong

  20. Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  21. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

  22. Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan

  23. Eyes that Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho

  24. Facing the Mountain by Daniel James Brown

  25. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell by John Preston

  26. Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown by Steve Sheinkin

  27. Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

  28. Floaters by Martín Espada

  29. frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss

  30. Gold Diggers by Sanjena Sathian

  31. Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

  32. How Moon Fuentez Fell in Love with the Universe by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

  33. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

  34. Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon

  35. Kaleidoscope by Brian Selznick

  36. Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

  37. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion

  38. Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

  39. Luster by Raven Leilani

  40. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

  41. Maya and the Robot by Eve L. Ewing

  42. Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor

  43. Memorial by Bryan Washington

  44. Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris

  45. Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March

  46. My Year Abroad by Chang-rae Lee

  47. Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney

  48. Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart

  49. Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth

  50. Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove

  51. Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo

  52. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko

  53. Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy

  54. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark

  55. Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca

  56. Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

  57. Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac

  58. Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

  59. Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

  60. Run by John Lewis

  61. Seeing Ghosts by Kat Chow

  62. Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic by Glenn Frankel

  63. The Beatryce Prophecy by Kate DiCamillo

  64. The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

  65. The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard

  66. The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager

  67. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

  68. The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

  69. The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth

  70. The Life of the Mind by Christine Smallwood

  71. The Longest Storm by Dan Yaccarino

  72. The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright

  73. The Midnight Bargain by C. L. Polk

  74. The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

  75. The People Remember by Ibi Zoboi

  76. The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict

  77. The Prophets by Robert Jones

  78. The Sea-ringed World: Sacred Stories of the Americas by María García Esperón

  79. The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie Wang

  80. The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

  81. This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan

  82. Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner

  83. Turn to Stone by James W. Ziskin

  84. We All Play by Julie Flett

  85. When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

  86. When We Make It by Elisabet Velasquez

  87. Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück

  88. Zorrie by Laird Hunt

3 sources

  1. A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi

  2. A Master of Djinn by P. Djèlí Clark

  3. A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

  4. A Shock by Keith Ridgway

  5. A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

  6. A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson

  7. A Treatise on Stars by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

  8. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul

  9. African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele

  10. African Icons: Ten People Who Shaped History by Tracey Baptiste

  11. All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

  12. American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser

  13. Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids by Cynthia Leitich Smith

  14. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets by Margaret Kimball

  15. Apeirogon by Colum McCann

  16. Areli Is A Dreamer: A True Story by Areli Morales

  17. Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

  18. Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora by Bryant Terry

  19. Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk and Nicola Yoon

  20. Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury

  21. Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman

  22. Boy, Everywhere by A. M. Dassu

  23. Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson

  24. Burntcoat by Sarah Hall

  25. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

  26. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

  27. Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo

  28. Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox

  29. China Room by Sunjeev Sahota

  30. Chlorine Sky by Mahogany L. Browne

  31. Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses

  32. Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

  33. Cultish by Amanda Montell

  34. Dad Bakes by Katie Yamasaki

  35. Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel

  36. Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi

  37. Derailed by Mary Keliikoa

  38. Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village by Jody Sokolower

  39. Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press

  40. Dream Girl by Laura Lippman

  41. Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny

  42. Eat or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick

  43. English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks

  44. Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler

  45. Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount

  46. Fictional Father by Joe Ollmann

  47. Finna by Nino Cipri

  48. Fish and Sun by Sergio Ruzzier

  49. Five Decembers by James Kestrel

  50. Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories by Lily King

  51. Four Hundred Souls by Ibram X. Kendi

  52. Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz

  53. Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

  54. From the Tops of the Trees by Kao Kalia Yang

  55. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

  56. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton

  57. Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World that Wouldn't Die by dave ring

  58. Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

  59. Hear My Voice / Escucha mi voz by Warren Binford

  60. Home Is Not a Country by Safia Elhillo

  61. House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

  62. House of Sticks by Ly Tran

  63. How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang

  64. How We Got to the Moon: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity's Greatest Adventure by John Rocco

  65. Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by Martin Edwards

  66. I Live a Life Like Yours by Jan Grue

  67. In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

  68. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

  69. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

  70. J.D. and the Great Barber Battle by J. Dillard

  71. Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch by Jake Cohen

  72. Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry by John Murillo

  73. Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer

  74. Last Call by Elon Green

  75. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

  76. Life’s Edge by Carl Zimmer

  77. Living with Viola by Rosena Fung

  78. Love Is a Revolution by Renée Watson

  79. Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres by Kelefa Sanneh

  80. Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey by Erin Entrada Kelly

  81. Merci Suárez Can't Dance by Meg Medina

  82. Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore

  83. Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know by Brittany Luby and Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

  84. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

  85. Monkey Boy: A Novel by Francisco Goldman

  86. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

  87. My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes

  88. My First Day by Phùng Nguyên Quang and Huỳnh Kim Liên

  89. My Two Border Towns by David Bowles

  90. Network Effect by Martha Wells

  91. Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sis

  92. Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

  93. Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas

  94. Niños: Poems for the Lost Children of Chile by María José Ferrada

  95. No One Else by R. Kikuo Johnson

  96. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor

  97. Northern Spy: A Novel by Flynn Berry

  98. Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

  99. On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu

  100. Ophie's Ghosts by Justina Ireland

  101. Over the Shop by JonArno Lawson

  102. Palmares by Gayl Jones

  103. Pawcasso by Remy Lai

  104. Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar

  105. Playing the Cards You’re Dealt by Varian Johnson

  106. Pop Song by Larissa Pham

  107. Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez

  108. Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  109. Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

  110. Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

  111. Sisters of the Neversea by Cynthia Leitich Smith

  112. Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim

  113. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

  114. Someone Builds the Dream by Lisa Wheeler

  115. Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be by Nichole Perkins

  116. Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp

  117. Stamped (for Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

  118. Strollercoaster by Matt Ringler

  119. Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds

  120. Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford

  121. Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles

  122. Taste by Stanley Tucci

  123. Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho

  124. That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry

  125. That Summer by Jennifer Weiner

  126. The Animals in that Country by Laura Jean McKay

  127. The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

  128. The Big Bad Wolf in My House by Valérie Fontaine

  129. The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (With Recipes) by Kate Lebo

  130. The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

  131. The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales

  132. The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

  133. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

  134. The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

  135. The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee by Julie Leung

  136. The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed

  137. The Girl from the Sea by Lee Knox Ostertag

  138. The Golden Hour by Niki Smith

  139. The Hard Crowd: Essays, 2000–2020 by Rachel Kushner

  140. The Kissing Bug by Daisy Hernández

  141. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

  142. The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave

  143. The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos by Judy Batalion

  144. The Midnight Fair by Gideon Sterer

  145. The Morning Star: A Novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard

  146. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

  147. The One Thing You'd Save by Linda Sue Park and Robert Sae-Heng

  148. The Other Talk: Reckoning With Our White Privilege by Brendan Kiely

  149. The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

  150. The Plague Year: America in the Time of COVID by Lawrence Wright

  151. The Premonition by Michael Lewis

  152. The Push by Ashley Audrain

  153. The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

  154. The Sea in Winter by Christine Day

  155. The Souvenir Museum: Stories by Elizabeth McCracken

  156. The Strangers by katherena vermette

  157. The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

  158. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg

  159. The Unbroken by C.L. Clark

  160. The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish

  161. The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

  162. The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold

  163. There is Nothing for You Here by Fiona Hill

  164. These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett

  165. These Women by Ivy Pochoda

  166. This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno

  167. Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean

  168. Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee

  169. Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

  170. Wake by Rebecca Hall

  171. Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories by Nana Nkweti

  172. We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth

  173. We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

  174. We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff

  175. What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey

  176. What You Don’t See by Tracy Clark

  177. What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster

  178. When Lola Visits by Michelle Sterling

  179. When She Was Good by Michael Robotham

  180. When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert

  181. While We Were Dating by Jasmine Guillory

  182. White Magic by Elissa Washuta

  183. Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews

  184. Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? by Jesse McCarthy

  185. Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

  186. Yearbook by Seth Rogen

  187. Yolk by Mary H.K. Choi

  188. Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara

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