Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The Best Books of 2021, as published by Slate

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• The Sentence
  Louise Erdrich
• Crossroads
  Jonathan Franzen
• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles
• Things I Have Withheld
  Kei Miller
• The Committed
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Light Perpetual
  Francis Spufford
• Harlem Shuffle
  Colson Whitehead
• Crying in H Mart
  Michelle Zauner