Publishers Weekly Best Books 2021

The best books in the SF/Fantasy/Horror category are:

• Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris (Saga)
• In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu (Tordotcom)
• A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Tor)
• Noor by Nnedi Okorafor (DAW)
• Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (MCD)
• The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri (Orbit)
• On Fragile Waves by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)

Titles and authors of genre interest listed in other categories follow.

Fiction:

• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
• A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Biblioasis)
• Burntcoat by Sarah Hall (Custom House)
• The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press)
• My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee (Riverhead)
• Outlawed by Anna North (Bloomsbury)
• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Young Adult:

• A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger (Levine Querido)
• Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen (Random House)
• The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon (Inkyard)
• Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet by Laekan Zea Kemp (Little, Brown)
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo (Dutton)
• Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon (Candlewick)
• The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore (Feiwel and Friends)
• The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky (Holt)
• The Other Merlin by Robyn Schneider (Viking)

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