Year-End Lists

USA Today: The Best Books of 2021

• The Burning Blue

  The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
  Kevin Cook
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean
  Joan Didion
• King Richard

  Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy
  Michael Dobbs
• The Sentence
  Louise Erdrich
• The Girls Are All So Nice Here
  Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
• Shooting Midnight Cowboy

  Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
  Glenn Frankel
• Crossroads
  Jonathan Franzen
• Matrix
  Lauren Groff
• Sex Cult Nun

  Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
  Faith Jones
• The Prophets
  Robert Jones Jr.
• Broken (in the best possible way)
  Jenny Lawson
• On Animals
  Susan Orlean
• These Precious Days
  Ann Patchett
• Little and Often

  A Memoir
  Trent Preszler
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
  Sally Rooney
• Filthy Animals
  Brandon Taylor
• Fight Night
  Miriam Toews