Booklist Best Adult Books of 2021
Booklist has announced its top adult books of 2021, with 10 categories including Arts & Literature, Fiction, and Genre Fiction. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.
Fiction
- The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki (Viking)
- Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
- Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
- The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
- Martita, I Remember You, Sandra Cisneros (Vintage)
- Matrix, Lauren Groff (Riverhead)
- The Night Always Comes, Willy Vlautin (Harper)
- The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (Harper)
- That Old Country Music, Kevin Barry (Knopf)
- That Summer, Jennifer Weiner (Atria)
- When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, Margaret Verble (Mariner)
Genre Fiction
- Billy Summers, Stephen King (Scribner)
- Blind Tiger, Sandra Brown (Grand Central)
- City on Fire, Don Winslow (Morrow)
- Dream Girl, Laura Lippman (Morrow)
- The Jasmine Throne, Tasha Suri (Orbit)
- Light from Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- My Heart Is a Chainsaw, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga)
- On Fragile Waves, E. Lily Yu (Erewhon)
- The Queen of the Cicadas, V. Castro (Flame Tree)
- Razorblade Tears, S. A. Cosby (Flatiron)
- A Thorn in the Saddle, Rebekah Weatherspoon (Dafina)
For the full list of Booklist‘s recommendations, see their post.
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