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  1. Sep 25, 2024 · Here, author and Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn highlights some of the most notable new novels of summer 2021 to help you narrow down your reading options. When We Cease to Understand the World. by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West. The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century.

  2. Navigating the complicated waters of family-making and motherhood in the twenty-first century, this exciting and very funny debut follows the lives of three trans and cis women living in New York. Add to basket. Keisha The Sket (Hardback) Jade LB. £12.99.

  3. by. Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author) Irish author Sally Rooney wins this year’s Best Fiction award for her celebrated novel on the complexities of romance, sex, and friendship on our swiftly tilting planet. A kind of deep-focus love quadrangle story, the book clearly hit a nerve for readers. This is the second GCA nomination for Rooney—she ...

  4. The New York Times. number-one books of 2021. The American daily newspaper The New York Times publishes multiple weekly lists ranking the best-selling books in the United States. The lists are split in three genres—fiction, nonfiction and children's books. Both the fiction and nonfiction lists are further split into multiple lists.

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    • Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. (FSG) 27 Rave • 26 Positive • 25 Mixed • 2 Pan. Listen to an excerpt from Beautiful World, Where Are You here.
    • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 24 Positive • 6 Mixed. “Klara and the Sun confirms one’s suspicion that the contemporary novel’s truest inheritor of Nabokovian estrangement—not to mention its best and deepest Martian—is Ishiguro … Never Let Me Go wrung a profound parable out of such questions: the embodied suggestion of that novel is that a free, long, human life is, in the end, just an unfree, short, cloned life.
    • No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead) 31 Rave • 13 Positive • 7 Mixed. Read an interview with Patricia Lockwood here. “Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously.
    • Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. (FSG) 32 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “… a novel that takes the religious beliefs of its characters seriously, without ever forgetting how easily faith can twist itself into absurdity … is light on curmudgeonly social commentary.
  5. From contemporary fiction, where Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney and Kate Mosse return with dazzling new works, to exciting new debuts, and from page-turning crime, which includes the eagerly-anticipated new novel from Paula Hawkins, to cutting edge science fiction and fantasy from the likes of Sarah J. Maas and Andy Weir, 2021 promises to be a truly magnificent year for bookworms everywhere.

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  7. Dec 27, 2021 · Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Awards established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year. Administered by the American Library Association. Prize money: $5,000 (winner), $1,500 (finalists) James McBride, Deacon King Kong (Riverhead)

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