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Beschreibung:

100 Notable Books of 2021: The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review .

* indicates Ten Best list

• Afterparties: Stories – Anthony Veasna So. (Ecco)
• Appleseed – Matt Bell. (Custom House)
• Beautiful World, Where Are You – Sally Rooney. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Bewilderment – Richard Powers. (W.W. Norton)
• The Book of Mother – Violaine Huisman Translated by Leslie Camhi. (Scribner)
• Build Your House Around My Body – Violet Kupersmith. (Random House)
• Burnt Sugar – Avni Doshi. (The Overlook Press)
• A Calling for Charlie Barnes – Joshua Ferris. (Little, Brown & Company)
• Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – Wole Soyinka. (Pantheon)
• Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr. (Scribner)
• Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Detransition, Baby – Torrey Peters. (One World)
• Ghosts of New York – Jim Lewis. (Paperback West Virginia University Press)
• Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead. (Doubleday)
• * How Beautiful We Were – Imbolo Mbue. (Random House)
• * Intimacies – Katie Kitamura. (Riverhead)
• Kink: Stories – Edited by R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell. (Paperback Simon & Schuster)
• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Libertie – Kaitlyn Greenidge. (Algonquin)
• A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself – Peter Ho Davies. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• 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 Toibin. (Scribner)
• The Morning Star – Karl Ove Knausgaard Translated by Martin Aitken. (Penguin Press)
• My Monticello: Fiction – Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. (Henry Holt)
• My Year Abroad – Chang-rae Lee. (Riverhead)
• The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family – Joshua Cohen. (Paperback New York Review Books)
• * No One Is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead)
• Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout. (Random House)
• One Last Stop – Casey McQuiston. (Paperback St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Our Country Friends – Gary Shteyngart. (Random House)
• Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems – Rita Dove. (W.W. Norton)
• The Plot – Jean Hanff Korelitz. (Celadon)
• The Promise – Damon Galgut. (Europa)
• The Prophets – Robert Jones Jr.. (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
• Razorblade Tears – S.A. Cosby. (Flatiron)
• Send for Me – Lauren Fox. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• The Sentence – Louise Erdrich. (Harper/HarperCollins)
• Something New Under the Sun – Alexandra Kleeman. (Hogarth)
• Strange Beasts of China – Yan Ge Translated by Jeremy Tiang. (Melville House)
• The Sun Collective – Charles Baxter. (Pantheon)
• The Trees – Percival Everett. (Paperback Graywolf)
• Velvet Was the Night – Silvia Moreno-Garcia. (Del Rey)
• The War for Gloria – Atticus Lish. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Wayward – Dana Spiotta. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• What Strange Paradise – Omar El Akkad. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• * When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut Translated by Adrian Nathan West. (Paperback New York Review Books)
• Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems – Louise Glück. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels – India Holton. (Paperback Berkley)
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler – Rebecca Donner. (Little, Brown)
• America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present – John Ghazvinian. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s – Elizabeth Hinton. (Liveright)
• American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption – Gabrielle Glaser. (Viking)
• The American War in Afghanistan: A History – Carter Malkasian. (Oxford University Press)
• Beautiful Country: A Memoir – Qian Julie Wang. (Doubleday)
• Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville – Akash Kapur. (Scribner)
• Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted – Suleika Jaouad. (Random House)
• Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour – Neal Gabler. (Crown)
• The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel – Kati Marton. (Simon & Schuster)
• Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill – Geoffrey Wheatcroft. (W.W. Norton)
• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power – Max Chafkin. (Penguin Press)
• * The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency – Tove Ditlevsen Translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman.. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Crying in H Mart: A Memoir – Michelle Zauner. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America – Eyal Press. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America – Christine Leigh Heyrman. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty – Patrick Radden Keefe. (Doubleday)
• The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage – Sasha Issenberg. (Pantheon)
• Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage – Eleanor Henderson. (Flatiron)
• The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain – Annie Murphy Paul. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• The Family Roe: An American Story – Joshua Prager. (W.W. Norton)
• Festival Days – Jo Ann Beard. (Little, Brown)
• The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War – Louis Menand. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• A Ghost in the Throat – Doireann Ni Ghriofa. (Paperback Biblioasis)
• * How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America – Clint Smith. (Little, Brown)
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America – Kiese Laymon. (Paperback Scribner)
• I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography – John Thompson with Jesse Washington. (Henry Holt)
• * Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City – Andrea Elliott. (Random House)
• JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 – Fredrik Logevall. (Random House)
• Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art – Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Bloomsbury Sigma)
• Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal – George Packer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Let Me Tell You What I Mean – Joan Didion. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 – Sarah Schulman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive – Carl Zimmer. (Dutton)
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance – Hanif Abdurraqib. (Random House)
• New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation – Thomas Dyja. (Simon & Schuster)
• Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir – Christopher Sorrentino. (Catapult)
• On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint – Maggie Nelson. (Graywolf)
• * On Juneteenth – Annette Gordon-Reed. (Liveright)
• People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present – Dara Horn. (W.W. Norton)
• Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir – Brian Broome. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created “Sunday in the Park With George” – James Lapine. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• * Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath – Heather Clark. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture – Randall Kennedy. (Pantheon)
• The Secret to Superhuman Strength – Alison Bechdel. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir – Kat Chow. (Grand Central)
• Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir – Ashley C. Ford. (Flatiron)
• Three Girls From Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood – Dawn Turner. (Simon & Schuster)
• A Whole World: Letters From James Merrill – Edited by Langdon Hammer and Stephen Yenser. (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America – John McWhorter. (Portfolio)