The New York Times Best Books of 2021

• Appleseed, Matt Bell (Custom House)
• Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Norton)
• Build Your House Around My Body, Violet Kupersmith (Random House)
• A Calling for Charlie Barnes, Joshua Ferris (Little, Brown)
• Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, Wole Soyinka (Pantheon)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
• Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (One World)
• Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue (Random House)
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf)
• Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Scribner)
• The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles (Viking)
• The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (HarperCollins)
• The Magician, Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
• The Morning Star, Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin)
• My Year Abroad, Chang-rae Lee (Riverhead)
• One Last Stop, Casey McQuiston (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Our Country Friends, Gary Shteyngart (Random House)
• The Sentence, Louise Erdrich (Harper)
• Something New Under the Sun, Alexandra Kleeman (Hogarth)
• Strange Beasts of China, Yan Ge (Melville House)
• The Sun Collective, Charles Baxter (Pantheon)
• Velvet Was the Night, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)
• What Strange Paradise, Omar El Akkad (Knopf)

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