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2021 Books

Annabel Gutterman: Time: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021

10 December 2021

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021, as published by Time Magazine

Book lists in other years: 2024 · 2023 · 2022
Also from Time Magazine in 2021: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books · Movies · TV Shows · Music · Podcasts
  1. Great Circle
    Maggie Shipstead
  2. The Prophets
    Robert Jones Jr.
  3. My Monticello
    Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
  4. Detransition, Baby
    Torrey Peters
  5. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
    Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
  6. The Life of the Mind
    Christine Smallwood
  7. Cloud Cuckoo Land
    Anthony Doerr
  8. Afterparties
    Anthony Veasna So
  9. Open Water
    Caleb Azumah Nelson
  10. Klara and the Sun
    Kazuo Ishiguro

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