NY Times 100 Notable Books 2021
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Published December 2021.
Books (96)
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Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So
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Appleseed: A Novel
Matt Bell
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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Bewilderment
Richard Powers
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Build Your House Around My Body
Violet Kupersmith
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Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
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A Calling for Charlie Barnes
Joshua Ferris
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Wole Soyinka
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
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Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
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Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
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Harlem shuffle
Colson Whitehead
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How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue
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Intimacies: A Novel
Katie Kitamura
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Klara and The Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
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A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself
Peter Ho Davies
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The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
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The Magician
Colm Toibin
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The Morning Star
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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