The Best Books We Read in 2021

by The New Yorker

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14 books

The fiction and nonfiction, old and new, that saw us through the year.

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See the source list and commentary at www.newyorker.com

De Gaulle

Julian Jackson, 2018

Segu

Maryse Condé, 2017

Upper Bohemia

Hayden Herrera, 2021

Long Live the Post Horn!

Vigdis Hjorth, 2020

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Harrow

Joy Williams, 2021

A Mad Love

An Introduction to Opera

Vivien Schweitzer, 2018

Not One Day

Anne Garréta, 2017

Tom Stoppard

Hermione Lee, 2021

Novel 11, Book 18

Dag Solstad, 2021

Patch Work

A Life Amongst Clothes

Claire Wilcox, 2020

Sabbath's Theater

Philip Roth, 1995

Warmth

Coming of Age at the End of Our World

Daniel Sherrell, 2021

Brothers and Keepers

John Edgar Wideman, 2020