Lit Hub Best Books of 2021

Lit Hub has announced its 48-title list of the best books of 2021. Titles and authors of genre interest follow.

• Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (One World)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez (Hogarth)
• The Vixen, Francine Prose (Harper)
• Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Scribner)
• The Scapegoat, Sara Davis (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Dear Senthuran, Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead)
• The Wrong End of the Telescope, Rabih Alameddine (Grove)
• Crossroads, Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Trees, Percival Everett (Graywolf)
• Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman (Hogarth)
• The Anomaly, Hervé Le Tellier translated by Adriana Hunter (Other)
• There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury)
• I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Claire Vaye Watkins (Riverhead)
• Winter Recipes from the Collective, Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

For the full list of Lit Hub‘s recommendations, see their post.

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