Amazon Best Books of 2021

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (Ballantine)
• A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury US)
• The Crown of Gilded Bones, Jennifer L. Armentrout (Blue Box)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• The Last Graduate, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• Under the Whispering Door, TJ Klune (Tor)
• Iron Widow, Ziran Jay Zhao (Penguin Teen)
• Fugitive Telemetry, Martha Wells (Tordotcom)
• A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine (Tor)
• A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
• The Blacktongue Thief, Christopher Buehlman (Tor)
• The Last Watch, J.S. Dewes (Tor)
• A Master of Djinn, P. Djèlí Clark (Tordotcom)
• Lore, Alexandra Bracken (Hyperion)
• Constance, Matthew FitzSimmons (Thomas & Mercer)
• You Sexy Thing, Cat Rambo (Tor)
• The Unbroken, C.L. Clark (Orbit)
• Appleseed, Matt Bell (Custom)

 Literature & Fiction

• Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
• The Four Winds, Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)
• Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Norton)
• The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (Viking)

Mysteries and Thrillers

• The Dark Hours, Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
• The Plot, Kean Hanff Korelitz (Celadon)
• Lightning Strike, William Kent Krueger (Atria)
• Chasing the Boogeyman, Richard Chizmar (Gallery)
• Razorblade Tears, S.A. Cosby (Flatiron)
• Clark and Division, Naomi Hirahara (Soho Crime)
• The First Day of Spring, Nancy Tucker (Riverhead)

Teen and Young Adult

• Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Crave, Tracy Wolff (Entangled)
• The Inheritance Games, Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)
• Blood & Honey, Shelby Mahurin (HarperTeen)
• We Are Not Free, Traci Chee (Clarion)
• A Sky Beyond the Storm, Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
• The Extraordinaries, TJ Klune (Tor Teen)
• Raybearers, Jordan Ifueko (Amulet)
• Dear Justyce, Nic Stone (Crown Books for Young Readers)
• Punching the Air, Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam (Balzer + Bray)
• The Ravens, Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige (Clarion)
• The Way Back, Gavriel Savit (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
• Super Fake Love Song, David Yoon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)