Best Books 2021
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Acts of Desperation
by Megan Nolan
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Afterparties
by Anthony Veasna So
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Aftershocks
by Nadia Owusu
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All That She Carried
by Tiya Miles
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
by Rebecca Donner
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America on Fire
by Elizabeth Hinton
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
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The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
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Call Us What We Carry
by Amanda Gorman
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China Room
by Sunjeev Sahota
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The Chosen and the Beautiful
by Nghi Vo
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Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
by Wole Soyinka
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
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The Code Breaker
by Walter Isaacson
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The Committed
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Copenhagen Trilogy
by Tove Ditlevsen
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Covered with Night
by Nicole Eustace
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
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Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
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Dear Senthuran
by Akwaeke Emezi
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Detransition, Baby
by Torrey Peters
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Empire of Pain
by Patrick Radden Keefe
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
by Rivka Galchen
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The Family Roe
by Joshua Prager
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
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Finding the Mother Tree
by Suzanne Simard
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Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
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The Free World
by Louis Menand
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Girlhood
by Melissa Febos
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Great Circle
by Maggie Shipstead
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Harlem Shuffle
by Colson Whitehead
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Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami
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Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
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How the Word Is Passed
by Clint Smith
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Intimacies
by Katie Kitamura
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Invisible Child
by Andrea Elliott
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The Kissing Bug
by Daisy Hernández
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Libertie
by Kaitlyn Greenidge
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The Life of the Mind
by Christine Smallwood
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The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
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A Little Devil in America
by Hanif Abdurraqib
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The Loneliest Americans
by Jay Caspian Kang
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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Malibu Rising
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright
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Matrix
by Lauren Groff
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Mike Nichols: A Life
by Mark Harris
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Milk Blood Heat
by Dantiel W. Moniz
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Milk Fed
by Melissa Broder
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My Darling from the Lions
by Rachel Long
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My Monticello
by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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My Year Abroad
by Chang-rae Lee
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No One Is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood
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Oh William!
by Elizabeth Strout
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On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed
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One Friday in April
by Donald Antrim
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One Last Stop
by Casey McQuiston
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Open Water
by Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
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The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
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Our Country Friends
by Gary Shteyngart
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A Passage North
by Anuk Arudpragasam
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Pilgrim Bell
by Kaveh Akbar
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Poet Warrior
by Joy Harjo
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Pop Song
by Larissa Pham
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The Promise
by Damon Galgut
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The Prophets
by Robert Jones, Jr.
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Razorblade Tears
by S.A. Cosby
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Real Estate
by Deborah Levy
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The Removed
by Brandon Hobson
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Remote Control
by Nnedi Okorafor
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The Rib King
by Ladee Hubbard
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Sankofa
by Chibundu Onuzo
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Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
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Seeing Ghosts
by Kat Chow
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Seek You
by Kristen Radtke
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Silverview
by John le Carré
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Smile
by Sarah Ruhl
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Somebody's Daughter
by Ashley C. Ford
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Something New Under the Sun
by Alexandra Kleeman
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Sorrowland
by Rivers Solomon
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The Sum of Us
by Heather McGhee
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The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
by Jackie Wang
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The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
by George Saunders
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Tastes Like War
by Grace M. Cho
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The Trees
by Percival Everett
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There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job
by Kikuko Tsumura
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Unbound
by Tarana Burke
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Under a White Sky
by Elizabeth Kolbert
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Until Proven Safe
by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
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While We Were Dating
by Jasmine Guillory
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White Magic
by Elissa Washuta
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Who Is Maud Dixon?
by Alexandra Andrews
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Who They Was
by Gabriel Krauze
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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul?
by Jesse McCarthy
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You Got Anything Stronger?
by Gabrielle Union
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You're History
by Lesley Chow
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