New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

1.
The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway 4.22 avg rating — 299,331 ratings
2.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land 4.25 avg rating — 254,435 ratings
3.
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 78,416 ratings
4.
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart 4.24 avg rating — 555,471 ratings
5.
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun 3.74 avg rating — 408,810 ratings
6.
Crossroads
Crossroads 4.06 avg rating — 64,658 ratings
7.
No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This 3.55 avg rating — 53,351 ratings
8.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Beautiful World, Where Are You 3.53 avg rating — 470,352 ratings
9.
The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating — 21,637 ratings
10.
The Promise
The Promise 3.85 avg rating — 48,155 ratings
11.
The Sentence
The Sentence 3.94 avg rating — 79,819 ratings
12.
Beautiful Country
Beautiful Country 4.17 avg rating — 37,463 ratings
13.
Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby 3.93 avg rating — 88,705 ratings
14.
How Beautiful We Were
How Beautiful We Were 3.95 avg rating — 18,585 ratings
15.
The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1)
The Morning Star (Morgenstjernen, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 15,964 ratings
15.
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Oh William! (Amgash, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 90,908 ratings
17.
Razorblade Tears
Razorblade Tears 4.11 avg rating — 130,433 ratings
18.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 4.51 avg rating — 39,947 ratings
19.
The Trees
The Trees 4.06 avg rating — 47,088 ratings
20.
What Strange Paradise
What Strange Paradise 4.04 avg rating — 16,114 ratings
21.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,094 ratings
22.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.54 avg rating — 126,875 ratings
23.
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
by: Dara Horn
4.36 avg rating — 10,557 ratings
24.
Afterparties
Afterparties 3.93 avg rating — 14,482 ratings
25.
Somebody's Daughter
Somebody's Daughter 4.02 avg rating — 71,676 ratings
26.
Build Your House Around My Body
Build Your House Around My Body 3.81 avg rating — 9,314 ratings
27.
A Calling for Charlie Barnes
A Calling for Charlie Barnes 3.75 avg rating — 3,849 ratings
28.
Kink: Stories
Kink: Stories
by: R.O. Kwon
3.11 avg rating — 5,468 ratings
29.
Appleseed
Appleseed
by: Matt Bell
3.57 avg rating — 3,274 ratings
30.
Libertie
Libertie 3.49 avg rating — 15,591 ratings
31.
The Magician
The Magician 4.02 avg rating — 19,183 ratings
32.
Three Girls from Bronzeville
Three Girls from Bronzeville 4.28 avg rating — 4,788 ratings
33.
The Netanyahus
The Netanyahus 3.80 avg rating — 17,415 ratings
34.
When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World 4.11 avg rating — 56,487 ratings
35.
My Monticello
My Monticello 3.90 avg rating — 9,795 ratings
36.
Wayward
Wayward 3.27 avg rating — 6,489 ratings
37.
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted 4.42 avg rating — 116,196 ratings
38.
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain 4.04 avg rating — 3,167 ratings
39.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Let Me Tell You What I Mean 3.84 avg rating — 19,064 ratings
40.
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 4.59 avg rating — 9,717 ratings
41.
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler 4.32 avg rating — 5,198 ratings
41.
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) 4.36 avg rating — 21,418 ratings
41.
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America 4.16 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
41.
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint 3.99 avg rating — 2,858 ratings
45.
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel 4.32 avg rating — 7,372 ratings
46.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War 4.22 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
47.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
The Secret to Superhuman Strength 4.15 avg rating — 11,283 ratings
48.
On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth 4.18 avg rating — 10,335 ratings
49.
Bewilderment
Bewilderment 3.91 avg rating — 68,456 ratings
50.
The Book of Mother
The Book of Mother 3.80 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
51.
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 4.53 avg rating — 1,496 ratings
51.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 4.57 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
53.
Intimacies
Intimacies 3.64 avg rating — 38,874 ratings
54.
Light Perpetual
Light Perpetual 3.67 avg rating — 5,918 ratings
55.
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself
A Lie Someone Told You about Yourself 3.78 avg rating — 3,734 ratings
56.
The Plot (The Book Series, #1)
The Plot (The Book Series, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 135,422 ratings
57.
Our Country Friends
Our Country Friends 3.20 avg rating — 16,249 ratings
58.
One Last Stop
One Last Stop 3.90 avg rating — 275,241 ratings
59.
My Year Abroad
My Year Abroad 3.41 avg rating — 8,063 ratings
60.
Send for Me
Send for Me 3.42 avg rating — 19,557 ratings
61.
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1)
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 49,432 ratings
61.
America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present
America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present 4.35 avg rating — 822 ratings
63.
Velvet Was the Night
Velvet Was the Night 3.51 avg rating — 29,771 ratings
64.
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
65.
The Family Roe: An American Story
The Family Roe: An American Story 4.13 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
66.
The Engagement: America's Quarter Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
The Engagement: America's Quarter Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage 4.24 avg rating — 264 ratings
67.
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City 4.70 avg rating — 18,454 ratings
68.
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography 4.47 avg rating — 1,912 ratings
69.
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal 4.05 avg rating — 2,321 ratings
70.
Burnt Sugar
Burnt Sugar 3.25 avg rating — 25,336 ratings
71.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth 3.18 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
72.
Ghosts of New York
Ghosts of New York
by: Jim Lewis
3.49 avg rating — 399 ratings
73.
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by: Rita Dove
4.07 avg rating — 890 ratings
74.
Something New Under the Sun
Something New Under the Sun 3.32 avg rating — 3,305 ratings
75.
Strange Beasts of China
Strange Beasts of China
by: Yan Ge
3.81 avg rating — 6,062 ratings
76.
The Sun Collective
The Sun Collective 3.27 avg rating — 922 ratings
77.
The War for Gloria
The War for Gloria 3.79 avg rating — 1,113 ratings
78.
Winter Recipes from the Collective
Winter Recipes from the Collective 3.96 avg rating — 3,889 ratings
79.
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
America On Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s 4.22 avg rating — 975 ratings
80.
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
The American War in Afghanistan: A History 4.25 avg rating — 563 ratings
81.
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville 3.73 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
82.
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 4.32 avg rating — 293 ratings
83.
Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill 3.66 avg rating — 322 ratings
84.
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power 3.61 avg rating — 2,187 ratings
85.
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America 3.61 avg rating — 130 ratings
86.
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage 3.45 avg rating — 1,282 ratings
87.
Festival Days
Festival Days 4.02 avg rating — 1,097 ratings
88.
A Ghost in the Throat
A Ghost in the Throat 4.02 avg rating — 10,194 ratings
89.
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
90.
JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956 4.55 avg rating — 2,843 ratings
91.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art 4.03 avg rating — 3,481 ratings
92.
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive 3.94 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
93.
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation 3.91 avg rating — 868 ratings
94.
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir 3.72 avg rating — 218 ratings
95.
Punch Me Up to the Gods
Punch Me Up to the Gods 4.33 avg rating — 5,926 ratings
96.
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George" 4.48 avg rating — 1,445 ratings
97.
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture 4.09 avg rating — 128 ratings
98.
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir
by: Kat Chow
3.93 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
99.
A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill
A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill 4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
100.
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America 3.93 avg rating — 6,472 ratings