Short & Long List 2021

1.
The Book of Form and Emptiness
The Book of Form and Emptiness 4.01 avg rating — 37,075 ratings
2.
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020 4.21 avg rating — 18,006 ratings
3.
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law 3.84 avg rating — 28,256 ratings
4.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land 4.25 avg rating — 254,476 ratings
5.
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
by: Teju Cole
4.20 avg rating — 378 ratings
6.
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up 3.97 avg rating — 5,683 ratings
7.
The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway 4.22 avg rating — 299,361 ratings
8.
Taste: My Life Through Food
Taste: My Life Through Food 4.20 avg rating — 90,787 ratings
9.
The Sentence
The Sentence 3.94 avg rating — 79,825 ratings
10.
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina 3.92 avg rating — 32,320 ratings
11.
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness 3.14 avg rating — 8,067 ratings
12.
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement 4.58 avg rating — 13,957 ratings
13.
Apples Never Fall
Apples Never Fall 3.76 avg rating — 427,571 ratings
14.
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living 3.84 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
15.
Silverview
Silverview 3.65 avg rating — 22,362 ratings
16.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You 3.53 avg rating — 470,443 ratings
17.
The Wrong End of the Telescope
The Wrong End of the Telescope 4.03 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
18.
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity 4.02 avg rating — 485 ratings
19.
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography 4.20 avg rating — 6,399 ratings
20.
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021
by: Ed Yong
3.93 avg rating — 408 ratings
21.
Great Circle
Great Circle 4.10 avg rating — 78,593 ratings
22.
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller 3.55 avg rating — 2,290 ratings
22.
Wayward
Wayward 3.27 avg rating — 6,490 ratings
24.
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2) 4.31 avg rating — 34,318 ratings
25.
When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky
When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky 3.61 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
26.
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Winter Recipes from the Collective 3.96 avg rating — 3,890 ratings
27.
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1)
The Apollo Murders (Apollo Murders, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 18,175 ratings
28.
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant 3.21 avg rating — 892 ratings
29.
On Animals
On Animals 3.83 avg rating — 5,788 ratings
30.
Crossroads
Crossroads 4.06 avg rating — 64,666 ratings
31.
Monster in the Middle
Monster in the Middle 3.19 avg rating — 1,093 ratings
32.
My Monticello
My Monticello 3.90 avg rating — 9,796 ratings
33.
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult 3.87 avg rating — 9,944 ratings
34.
A Lot Like Adiós (Primas of Power, #2)
A Lot Like Adiós (Primas of Power, #2) 3.70 avg rating — 14,049 ratings
35.
These Precious Days: Essays
These Precious Days: Essays 4.42 avg rating — 44,243 ratings
36.
You Got Anything Stronger?
You Got Anything Stronger? 4.11 avg rating — 11,470 ratings
37.
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint 3.99 avg rating — 2,859 ratings
38.
Tell Me How to Be
Tell Me How to Be 4.15 avg rating — 5,393 ratings
39.
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
A Calling for Charlie Barnes 3.75 avg rating — 3,850 ratings
40.
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America 3.64 avg rating — 2,775 ratings
41.
Matrix
Matrix 3.68 avg rating — 64,939 ratings
42.
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming
Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming 4.06 avg rating — 467 ratings
43.
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Five Tuesdays in Winter
by: Lily King
3.71 avg rating — 22,114 ratings
44.
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library 4.25 avg rating — 596 ratings
45.
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays 3.85 avg rating — 6,625 ratings
46.
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Oh William! (Amgash, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 90,915 ratings
47.
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres 4.15 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
48.
Orwell's Roses
Orwell's Roses 4.17 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
49.
The Prince of the Skies
The Prince of the Skies 4.04 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
50.
Around the World in 80 Books
Around the World in 80 Books 3.64 avg rating — 664 ratings
51.
The Eightfold Path: A Graphic Novel Anthology
The Eightfold Path: A Graphic Novel Anthology 3.36 avg rating — 160 ratings
52.
City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) 4.09 avg rating — 28,366 ratings
53.
Bewilderment
Bewilderment 3.91 avg rating — 68,465 ratings