The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2021

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