The New York Times Notable Books of the Year2021

Given by The New York Times Book Review

Other Names: The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of Noteworthy Titles, The New York Times Book Review's Books for Christmas (1933-1941), The New York Times Book Review's Christmas Checklist (1947-1948), The New York Times Book Review's A Christmas Guide for Readers (1949 - 1968), The New York Times Book Review's Other Outstanding Books of the Year (1969), The New York Times Book Review's A Selected List From Books of the Year (1970), The New York Times Book Review's A Selection of the Best Books of the Year (1978-1979), A New York Times Notable Book
100 Works 63,324 Books 2,790 Reviews ½ 4.0
The New York Times Book Review's annual list of "Notable Books", currently numbering 100.


Links to the lists on the NYT website:
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Categories:
All, American Scene (36), Art (13), Art & Architecture (2), Art, Music & Popular Culture (6), Arts, Drama, Music (8), Autobiography & Biography (75), Belles Lettres (3), Biography (13), Children's Books (8), Crime (1), Current Affairs & Social Comment (10), Education (4), Essays & Criticism (17), Essays and Belles-Lettres (1), Essays, Letters & Criticism (5), Fiction (336), Fiction & Poetry (402), Fiction - Comics/Graphics (2), Fiction - Poetry (1), Fiction - Stories (16), Fiction - Thrillers (5), Fiction/Poetry (53), History (5), Humor (2), Music (1), Nonfiction (602), Nonfiction - Biography (2), Nonfiction - Biography - Current Affairs (1), Nonfiction - Biography - History (4), Nonfiction - Biography - Sports (2), Nonfiction - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Current Affairs (8), Nonfiction - Essays (4), Nonfiction - Foreign Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History (28), Nonfiction - History - Current Affairs (2), Nonfiction - History - Memoir (1), Nonfiction - History - Sports (1), Nonfiction - Memoir (55), Nonfiction - Memoir - Comics/Graphics (1), Nonfiction - Science (10), Nonfiction - Science - History (1), Nonfiction - Sociology (1), Nonfiction - Sociology - Current Affairs (1), Poetry (10), Politics (1), Religion (18), Science & Social Science (1), Science Fiction (1), Thriller (1), Travel, Adventure (2), No Category (197)
Years:
All, 2023 (100), 2022 (100), 2021 (100), 2020 (101), 2019 (100), 2018 (100), 2017 (100), 2016 (100), 2015 (49), 2014 (21), 2013 (2), 2012 (100), 2011 (6), 2010 (100), 2009 (100), 2008 (100), 2007 (100), 2006 (99), 2005 (2), 2004 (4), 2003 (6), 2002 (4), 2001 (4), 2000 (5), 1999 (1), 1998 (7), 1997 (4), 1996 (18), 1995 (2), 1994 (8), 1993 (3), 1992 (5), 1991 (4), 1989 (13), 1988 (12), 1987 (25), 1986 (1), 1982 (28), 1981 (2), 1979 (1), 1977 (1), 1975 (9), 1972 (10), 1971 (66), 1970 (2), 1969 (2), 1968 (1), 1962 (3), 1961 (7), 1960 (2), 1959 (3), 1957 (70), 1955 (14), 1951 (35), 1949 (1), 1948 (1), 1947 (59), 1946 (1), 1943 (1), 1942 (1), 1939 (1), 1933 (2)
WorkCategoryYear
The Sun Collective by Charles Baxter
Fiction2021
Appleseed by Matt Bell
Fiction2021
The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family by Joshua Cohen
Fiction2021
Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Fiction2021
A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself by Peter Ho Davies
Fiction2021
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
Fiction2021
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Fiction2021
What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad
Fiction2021
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Fiction2021
The Trees by Percival Everett
Fiction2021
A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris
Fiction2021
Send For Me by Lauren Fox
Fiction2021
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Fiction2021
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Fiction2021
Strange Beasts of China by Ge Yan
Fiction2021
Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge
Fiction2021
The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton
Fiction2021
The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman
Fiction2021
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction2021
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Fiction2021
The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr.
Fiction2021
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Fiction2021
Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
Fiction2021
The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgård
Fiction2021
The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Fiction2021
Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
Fiction2021
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
Fiction2021
My Year Abroad by Chang-Rae Lee
Fiction2021
Ghosts of New York by Jim Lewis
Fiction2021
The War for Gloria by Atticus Lish
Fiction2021
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Fiction2021
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
Fiction2021
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Fiction2021
Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fiction2021
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Fiction2021
Bewilderment: A Novel by Richard Powers
Fiction2021
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Fiction2021
Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart
Fiction2021
Chronicles from the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
Fiction2021
Wayward by Dana Spiotta
Fiction2021
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
Fiction2021
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Fiction2021
The Magician by Colm Tóibín
Fiction2021
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Fiction2021
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Fiction2021
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
Stories
Fiction - Stories2021
Kink: Stories by R. O. Kwon
Stories
Fiction - Stories2021
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna So
Stories
Fiction - Stories2021
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction2021
Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
Nonfiction2021
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
Nonfiction2021
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power by Max Chafkin
Nonfiction2021
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark
Nonfiction2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Nonfiction2021
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
Nonfiction2021
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation by Thomas Dyja
Nonfiction2021
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
Nonfiction2021
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 by Neal Gabler
Nonfiction2021
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian
Nonfiction2021
American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
Nonfiction2021
Doomed Romance: Broken Hearts, Lost Souls, and Sexual Tumult in Nineteenth-Century America by Christine Leigh Heyrman
Nonfiction2021
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Nonfiction2021
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
Nonfiction2021
The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg
Nonfiction2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Nonfiction2021
Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture by Randall Kennedy
Nonfiction2021
Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine
Nonfiction2021
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays {revised} by Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction2021
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
Nonfiction2021
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
Nonfiction2021
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel by Kati Marton
Nonfiction2021
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
Nonfiction2021
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand
Nonfiction2021
A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill by James Merrill
Nonfiction2021
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
Nonfiction2021
Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer
Nonfiction2021
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain by Annie Murphy Paul
Nonfiction2021
The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager
Nonfiction2021
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
Nonfiction2021
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 by Sarah Schulman
Nonfiction2021
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America by Clint Smith
Nonfiction2021
Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Nonfiction2021
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Nonfiction2021
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
Nonfiction2021
Punch Me Up To The Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage by Eleanor Henderson
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son's Memoir by Christopher Sorrentino
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography by John Thompson
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Memoir
Nonfiction - Memoir2021
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove
Poetry
Poetry2021
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück
Poetry
Poetry2021

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