Year-End Lists

A curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Annabel Gutterman: Time The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

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

Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer The Best Books of 2021

My Phantoms - Gwendoline Riley

Guardian Best Fiction of 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Wall Street Journal The 10 Best Books of 2021

Bewilderment - Richard Powers

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2021

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Best of Books 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

On Juneteenth - Annette Gordon-Reed

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Washington Post The 10 Best Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

National Book Award Fiction 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

National Book Award Nonfiction 2021

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Oprah Daily 20 Favorite Books of 2021

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Powell's Books The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2021

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

Powell's Books The 18 Best Novels of 2021

The Promise - Damon Galgut

The Booker Prize 2021 Award

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction 2021