The 10 Best Books of 2021

by The Wall Street Journal
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10 books
Selected by the editors of the Journal’s books pages, the year’s most distinguished works of fiction and nonfiction.
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See the source list and commentary at www.wsj.com

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Rebecca Donner, 2021

Finding the Mother Tree

Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard, 2021

Harrow

A Novel
Joy Williams, 2021

An Inventory of Losses

Judith Schalansky, 2020

Look for Me and I'll Be Gone

Stories
John Edgar Wideman, 2021

The Netanyahus

An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen, 2021

Robert E. Lee

A Life
Allen C. Guelzo, 2021

The Strategy of Denial

American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
Elbridge A. Colby, 2021

The Transcendentalists and Their World

Robert A. Gross, 2021

Voyagers

The Settlement of the Pacific
Nicholas Thomas, 2021