The Best Books of 2021: Nonfiction
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You too can be pleasantly surprised by the odd choices and risky innovations so many writers make in the books on this list.
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The Best Books of 2021: Fiction
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2021 saw a bumper-crop of truly excellent fiction, possibly because lockdowns prevented writers from doing virtually anything else.
Read MoreThe Worst Books of 2021: Fiction
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Rampant narcissism, shallow MFA programs, and poisonous social media were generous contributors to the worst fiction of 2021.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Biography
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In spite of some significant obstacles, these impressive biographies were brought to life in 2021.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: History
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The best history volumes published by popular presses, academic presses, and specialty presses this year challenge the status quo.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Nature
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The best of nature writing in 2021 provided a guaranteed refuge from all the ills of the world.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Science
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Science has been proven to be a tremendously important topic—here are the best of a very fine crop.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Historical Fiction
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This year saw a slew of first-rate historical novels, and these were the best of them.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Thrillers
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Readers, whose nerves were probably already on the ragged edge, could still enjoy these thrillers.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: SFF!
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How can new novels about parallel dimensions, steadily-complicating AI, hostile alien hellscapes, and most of all deadly society-altering pandemics compete with the real world in 2021? The novels on this list rose to the challenge.
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