Globe & Mail - The Globe 100 - Best Books of 2021

1.
A Town Called Solace
A Town Called Solace 4.01 avg rating — 27,988 ratings
2.
All's Well
All's Well
by: Mona Awad
3.74 avg rating — 33,457 ratings
3.
Astra
Astra 4.20 avg rating — 3,073 ratings
4.
August Into Winter
August Into Winter 4.10 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
5.
Bewilderment
Bewilderment 3.91 avg rating — 68,459 ratings
6.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land 4.25 avg rating — 254,468 ratings
7.
A Dream of a Woman
A Dream of a Woman 4.28 avg rating — 1,711 ratings
8.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch 3.39 avg rating — 12,641 ratings
9.
Fight Night
Fight Night 4.03 avg rating — 21,200 ratings
10.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 3.68 avg rating — 16,156 ratings
11.
In Memory of Memory
In Memory of Memory 3.84 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
12.
Klara and the Sun
Klara and the Sun 3.74 avg rating — 408,850 ratings
13.
Matrix
Matrix 3.68 avg rating — 64,936 ratings
14.
No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This 3.55 avg rating — 53,353 ratings
15.
Oh William! (Amgash, #3)
Oh William! (Amgash, #3) 3.86 avg rating — 90,912 ratings
16.
Our Darkest Night
Our Darkest Night 4.11 avg rating — 19,705 ratings
17.
Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3)
Return of the Trickster (Trickster, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 3,189 ratings
18.
Ring (Quincunx, #3)
Ring (Quincunx, #3) 3.71 avg rating — 541 ratings
19.
Second Place
Second Place 3.68 avg rating — 26,883 ratings
20.
Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
Tainna: The Unseen Ones, Short Stories 4.02 avg rating — 453 ratings
21.
The Listeners
The Listeners 3.41 avg rating — 3,680 ratings
22.
The Push
The Push 4.04 avg rating — 412,762 ratings
23.
The Son of the House
The Son of the House 4.09 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
24.
The Strangers
The Strangers 4.10 avg rating — 11,730 ratings
25.
We Want What We Want
We Want What We Want 3.96 avg rating — 934 ratings
26.
What Storm, What Thunder
What Storm, What Thunder 3.95 avg rating — 3,076 ratings
27.
What Strange Paradise
What Strange Paradise 4.04 avg rating — 16,116 ratings
28.
April in Spain (Quirke, #8 and St. John Strafford, #3)
April in Spain (Quirke, #8 and St. John Strafford, #3) 3.54 avg rating — 7,983 ratings
29.
Dark Roads
Dark Roads 3.96 avg rating — 32,681 ratings
30.
Exit
Exit 4.04 avg rating — 11,773 ratings
31.
Falling
Falling 3.87 avg rating — 94,581 ratings
32.
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1)
Harlem Shuffle (Ray Carney, #1) 3.73 avg rating — 78,422 ratings
33.
Silverview
Silverview 3.65 avg rating — 22,360 ratings
34.
State of Terror
State of Terror 4.09 avg rating — 82,430 ratings
35.
The Other Black Girl
The Other Black Girl 3.35 avg rating — 82,112 ratings
36.
We Are Watching Eliza Bright
We Are Watching Eliza Bright 3.91 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
37.
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure 3.88 avg rating — 321 ratings
38.
Postscripts from a City Burning
Postscripts from a City Burning
by: Sam Cheuk
3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
39.
The Good Arabs
The Good Arabs 4.14 avg rating — 140 ratings
40.
The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections
The Endless Garment: A Pocket Epic in Five Collections really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
41.
A Ghost in the Throat
A Ghost in the Throat 4.02 avg rating — 10,194 ratings
42.
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery 4.29 avg rating — 218 ratings
43.
Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs
Breath Taking: The Power, Fragility, and Future of Our Extraordinary Lungs 3.88 avg rating — 243 ratings
44.
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures 4.64 avg rating — 1,099 ratings
45.
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence 3.90 avg rating — 72,980 ratings
46.
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers
Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers 3.73 avg rating — 461 ratings
47.
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 4.54 avg rating — 126,895 ratings
48.
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest 4.21 avg rating — 15,842 ratings
49.
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made 4.05 avg rating — 577 ratings
50.
How to Lose Everything: A Memoir
How to Lose Everything: A Memoir 4.22 avg rating — 447 ratings
51.
Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey
Klondikers: Dawson City's Stanley Cup Challenge and How a Nation Fell in Love with Hockey 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings
52.
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders in the Wake of a Pandemic 4.39 avg rating — 404 ratings
53.
Nothing But the Truth
Nothing But the Truth 4.06 avg rating — 1,438 ratings
54.
On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake
On Borrowed Time: North America's Next Big Quake 3.97 avg rating — 64 ratings
55.
Over the Boards: Lessons from the Ice
Over the Boards: Lessons from the Ice 3.94 avg rating — 1,129 ratings
56.
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition
On Property: Policing, Prisons, and the Call for Abolition 4.21 avg rating — 357 ratings
57.
Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling 4.29 avg rating — 456 ratings
58.
Permanent Astonishment
Permanent Astonishment 4.18 avg rating — 1,467 ratings
59.
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas 3.81 avg rating — 104 ratings
60.
Rationality
Rationality 3.84 avg rating — 6,169 ratings
61.
Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From
Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From 3.67 avg rating — 175 ratings
62.
Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language
Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language 3.95 avg rating — 101 ratings
63.
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust 4.04 avg rating — 140 ratings
64.
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly
by: Kate Lebo
3.77 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
65.
The Brilliant Abyss
The Brilliant Abyss 4.03 avg rating — 2,588 ratings
66.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity 4.19 avg rating — 24,318 ratings
67.
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future 4.10 avg rating — 12,801 ratings
68.
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance 4.38 avg rating — 3,994 ratings
69.
Fictional Father
Fictional Father 3.79 avg rating — 363 ratings
70.
Discipline
Discipline
by: Dash Shaw
3.53 avg rating — 312 ratings
71.
No One Else
No One Else 3.65 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
72.
Stone Fruit
Stone Fruit
by: Lee Lai
4.05 avg rating — 5,352 ratings
73.
Trots and Bonnie
Trots and Bonnie 4.27 avg rating — 147 ratings
74.
The Big Bath House
The Big Bath House 4.27 avg rating — 739 ratings
75.
Hare B&B
Hare B&B 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
76.
Learning to Carve Argillite (Sk'ad'a Stories Series) (Volume 2)
Learning to Carve Argillite (Sk'ad'a Stories Series) (Volume 2) 4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
77.
Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest
Little Witch Hazel: A Year in the Forest 4.63 avg rating — 2,329 ratings
78.
Moon Pops
Moon Pops really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 472 ratings
79.
On the Trapline
On the Trapline 4.36 avg rating — 690 ratings
80.
The Big Bad Wolf in My House
The Big Bad Wolf in My House 4.32 avg rating — 646 ratings
81.
The Sour Cherry Tree
The Sour Cherry Tree 4.01 avg rating — 218 ratings
82.
Two at the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest
Two at the Top: A Shared Dream of Everest 3.34 avg rating — 85 ratings
83.
A Pho Love Story
A Pho Love Story
by: Loan Le
3.66 avg rating — 22,154 ratings
84.
Borders
Borders 3.91 avg rating — 3,693 ratings
85.
Both Sides Now
Both Sides Now 3.30 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
86.
Factory Summers
Factory Summers 3.77 avg rating — 3,424 ratings
87.
Firefly
Firefly really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 263 ratings
88.
Frankie & Bug
Frankie & Bug 4.10 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
89.
Hello [From Here]
Hello [From Here] 3.47 avg rating — 2,440 ratings
90.
Take Me Home Tonight
Take Me Home Tonight 3.63 avg rating — 5,558 ratings
91.
The Girls I've Been
The Girls I've Been 4.04 avg rating — 52,170 ratings
92.
Tremendous Things
Tremendous Things 4.13 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
93.
Vegetables: A Love Story: 92 Heartwarming Recipes from the Kitchen of Sweetsugarbean
Vegetables: A Love Story: 92 Heartwarming Recipes from the Kitchen of Sweetsugarbean 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
94.
Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple
Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple 4.48 avg rating — 602 ratings
95.
Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking
Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking 3.86 avg rating — 73 ratings
96.
Farm, Fire & Feast: Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune
Farm, Fire & Feast: Recipes from the Inn at Bay Fortune really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings
97.
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet 4.14 avg rating — 759 ratings
98.
Well Seasoned: A Year's Worth of Delicious Recipes
Well Seasoned: A Year's Worth of Delicious Recipes
by: Mary Berg
4.01 avg rating — 92 ratings
99.
Sufferance
Sufferance 3.90 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
100.
We All Play
We All Play 4.17 avg rating — 1,171 ratings