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Second Place - Rachel Cusk

Best Fiction of 2021 Guardian

Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Wall Street Journal

How Beautiful We Were - Imbolo Mbue

The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

Best Fiction Books of 2021 Kirkus Reviews

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Kirkus Reviews

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Best of Books 2021 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Top 10 Books of 2021 Chicago Public Library

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Top 10 Books of 2021 New York Public Library

Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters

100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 Washington Post

I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Claire Vaye Watkins

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 Washington Post

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Washington Post

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Fiction 2021 National Book Award

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Nonfiction 2021 National Book Award

Assembly - Natasha Brown

10 Best Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

20 Favorite Books of 2021 Oprah Daily

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Powell's Books

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Best Fiction of 2021 Goldsmiths Prize

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The 18 Best Novels of 2021 Powell's Books

The Promise - Damon Galgut

Best Fiction of 2021 The Booker Prize

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Nonfiction 2021 Kirkus Prize

Harrow - Joy Williams

Fiction 2021 Kirkus Prize

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Best Fiction of 2021 Women's Prize

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

2021 Dublin Literary Award

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