Year archive
Best books of 2021
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2021, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
- Selections
- 388
- Authors
- 385
- Lists & prizes
- 16
Showing 337–384 of 388
The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel
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The Woman in the Purple Skirt: A Novel
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These Precious Days: Essays
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These Toxic Things: A Thriller
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This is Your Mind on Plants
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This Thing Between Us: A Novel
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Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories
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Too Bright to See
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Too Small Tola
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Trust: A Novel
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Twice Alive
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
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Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine
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Velvet Was the Night
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Victories Greater Than Death
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Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
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Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire
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Watercress
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We Are Bridges: A Memoir
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We Are Watching Eliza Bright: A Novel
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We Are Water Protectors
Randolph Caldecott Medal
We Run the Tides: A Novel
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We Were Never Here: A Novel
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What Storm, What Thunder
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What Strange Paradise: A Novel
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When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
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When We Cease to Understand the World
The New York Times — 10 Best Books
When You Trap a Tiger
John Newbery Medal
While We Were Dating
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White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
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White Magic: Essays
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Who is Maud Dixon? A Novel
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Why We Fly
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Widespread Panic: A Novel
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Wild Rain: Women Who Dare
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Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Win Me Something: A Novel
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Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems
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Wishes
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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
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