NYT Editors’ Choice 202101

1.
A Will To Kill (Athreya, #1)
A Will To Kill (Athreya, #1) 3.62 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
2.
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood 3.78 avg rating — 636 ratings
3.
Summerwater
Summerwater 3.50 avg rating — 15,200 ratings
4.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life 4.54 avg rating — 23,123 ratings
5.
The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating — 21,638 ratings
6.
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election 4.30 avg rating — 398 ratings
7.
Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent
Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent 3.93 avg rating — 489 ratings
8.
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) 4.36 avg rating — 21,418 ratings
8.
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption 4.34 avg rating — 4,031 ratings
10.
Troubled: The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Programs
Troubled: The Failed Promise of America's Behavioral Treatment Programs 3.50 avg rating — 455 ratings
11.
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition
Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition 3.71 avg rating — 120 ratings
12.
Zikora
Zikora 4.26 avg rating — 22,427 ratings
13.
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays
In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays 3.84 avg rating — 522 ratings
14.
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams 3.75 avg rating — 409 ratings
15.
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind 4.12 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
16.
The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past
The Sediments of Time: My Lifelong Search for the Past 4.14 avg rating — 433 ratings
17.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel 4.25 avg rating — 117 ratings
18.
A Million Aunties
A Million Aunties 3.43 avg rating — 716 ratings
19.
The Liar's Dictionary
The Liar's Dictionary 3.35 avg rating — 10,633 ratings
20.
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 2,555 ratings
21.
W-3
W-3 3.63 avg rating — 449 ratings
22.
Himalaya: A Human History
Himalaya: A Human History 3.65 avg rating — 440 ratings
23.
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future
A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future 4.10 avg rating — 309 ratings
24.
Bag Man
Bag Man 4.32 avg rating — 7,402 ratings
25.
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for the Future of Europe
Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for the Future of Europe 3.82 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
26.
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself 3.78 avg rating — 3,734 ratings
27.
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America 4.32 avg rating — 5,812 ratings
28.
Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation 4.24 avg rating — 350 ratings
29.
An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses 3.35 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
30.
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding 4.18 avg rating — 9,935 ratings
31.
Aftershocks
Aftershocks 3.90 avg rating — 6,318 ratings
32.
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust
Saving Justice: Truth, Transparency, and Trust 3.91 avg rating — 1,540 ratings
33.
The Hearing Trumpet
The Hearing Trumpet really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10,850 ratings
34.
The Push
The Push 4.04 avg rating — 412,741 ratings
35.
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine 3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings
36.
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames 3.92 avg rating — 1,792 ratings
37.
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution 3.87 avg rating — 436 ratings
38.
America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present
America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present 4.35 avg rating — 822 ratings
39.
Craft: An American History
Craft: An American History 3.84 avg rating — 250 ratings
40.
Solutions and Other Problems
Solutions and Other Problems 4.21 avg rating — 38,064 ratings
41.
Life Among the Terranauts
Life Among the Terranauts 3.71 avg rating — 491 ratings