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December 15, 2021

The Best Books of 2021: Fiction

December 15, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2021: Fiction

2021 saw a bumper-crop of truly excellent fiction, possibly because lockdowns prevented writers from doing virtually anything else.

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The best fiction of 2021, A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam, Medusa's Ankles, AS Byatt, A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself, Peter Ho Davies, Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus, Allan Gurganus, Harrow, Joy Williams, The Trees, Percival Everett, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Ruth Ozeki, The Sentence, Louise Erdrich, Look For Me and I'll Be Gone, John Edgar Wideman, In, Will McPhail, SteveReads, Best of 2021
December 14, 2021

The Worst Books of 2021: Fiction

December 14, 2021/ Steve Donoghue
The Worst Books of 2021: Fiction

Rampant narcissism, shallow MFA programs, and poisonous social media were generous contributors to the worst fiction of 2021.

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animal, Lisa Taddeo, Detransition Baby, Torrey Peters, Fake Accounts, Lauren Oyler, Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor, Milk Fed, Melissa Broder, Colm Toibin, fake accounts, Leave Society, Tao Lin, Beautiful World, Beautiful World Where Are You, Sally Rooney, SteveReads, Best of 2021
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