She Reads Awards 2021

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72 books

Thousands of you voted and the winners are IN. Our annual She Reads Awards are voted on by you – readers and fans – and reflect the books you loved most this year. Here are the winners for the best books of the year in the She Reads Awards.

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Best Book of 2021

Winner

The Rose Code

Kate Quinn, 2021

Nominees

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner, 2021

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley, 2021

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead, 2021

Hour of the Witch

Chris Bohjalian, 2021

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel, 2021

People We Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry, 2021

Razorblade Tears

S. A. Cosby, 2021

The Four Winds

Kristin Hannah, 2021

The Heart Principle

Helen Hoang, 2021

The Prophets

Robert Jones, Jr., 2021

We Begin at the End

Chris Whitaker, 2021

Book Club Pick

Winner

He Gets That from Me

Jacqueline Friedland, 2021

Nominees

A Special Place for Women

Laura Hankin, 2021

Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So, 2021

L.A. Weather

María Amparo Escandón, 2021

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy, 2021

One Two Three

Laurie Frankel, 2021

The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix, 2021

The Last Bookshop in London

Madeline Martin, 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, 2021

The Wrong End of the Telescope

Rabih Alameddine, 2021

Waiting for the Night Song

Julie Carrick Dalton, 2021

What a Happy Family

Saumya Dave, 2021

Book Covers

Winner

The Lost Apothecary

Sarah Penner, 2021

Nominees

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley, 2021

Ghost Forest

Pik-Shuen Fung, 2021

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead, 2021

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Cherie Jones, 2021

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel, 2021

Long Division

Kiese Laymon, 2021

Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid, 2021

The Echo Wife

Sarah Gailey, 2021

The Hunting Wives

Unbound

My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke, 2021

Within These Wicked Walls

Lauren Blackwood, 2021

Debut

Winner

The Paper Palace

Miranda Cowley Heller, 2021

Nominees

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, 2021

Black Buck

Mateo Askaripour, 2021

Falling

T. J. Newman, 2021

Honey Girl

Morgan Rogers, 2021

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Cherie Jones, 2021

Olympus, Texas

Stacey Swann, 2021

The Charm Offensive

Alison Cochrun, 2021

The Five Wounds

Kirstin Valdez Quade, 2021

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

Marianne Cronin, 2021

The Other Black Girl

Zakiya Dalila Harris, 2021

We Are the Brennans

Tracey Lange, 2021

Surprise Hit

Winner

The Guncle

Steven Rowley, 2021

Nominees

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala, 2021

Bath Haus

P. J. Vernon, 2021

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

Elle Cosimano, 2021

Mary Jane

Jessica Anya Blau, 2021

Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder, 2021

Outlawed

Anna North, 2021

The Bad Muslim Discount

Syed M. Masood, 2021

The Marvelous Mirza Girls

Sheba Karim, 2021

The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

Laura Imai Messina, 2021

The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels

India Holton, 2021

Things We Lost to the Water

Eric Nguyen, 2021

Contemporary Fiction

Winner

Under the Southern Sky

Kristy Woodson Harvey, 2021

Nominees

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty, 2021

At the Edge of the Haight

Katherine Seligman, 2021

Dial a for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto, 2021

Good Company

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, 2021

Just Last Night

Mhairi McFarlane, 2021

Sparks Like Stars

Nadia Hashimi, 2021

That Summer

Jennifer Weiner, 2021

The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes

Xio Axelrod, 2021

The Portrait of a Mirror

A. Natasha Joukovsky, 2022

The Startup Wife

Tahmima Anam, 2021

What Comes After

JoAnne Tompkins, 2021