Year-End Lists

Oprah Daily: 20 Favorite Books of 2021

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

1. Cloud Cuckoo Land
   Anthony Doerr
2. The Man Who Lived Underground
   Richard Wright
3. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
   Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
4. On Freedom

   Four Songs of Care and Constraint
   Maggie Nelson
5. Great Circle
   Maggie Shipstead
6. Putting It Together

   How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"
   James Lapine
7. The Sweetness of Water
   Nathan Harris
8. The Lincoln Highway
   Amor Towles
9. New York, My Village
   Uwem Akpan
10. Infinite Country
    Patricia Engel
11. Crossroads
    Jonathan Franzen
12. Bewilderment
    Richard Powers
13. Harlem Shuffle
    Colson Whitehead
14. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
    Mariana Enriquez
15. Mrs. March
    Virginia Feito
16. Intimacies
    Katie Kitamura
17. These Precious Days
    Ann Patchett
18. The Sentence
    Louise Erdrich
19. Major Labels

    A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
    Kelefa Sanneh
20. On Juneteenth
    Annette Gordon-Reed