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1. www.nytimes.com › 2021/12/09 › booksThe Best Historical Fiction of 2021 - The New York Times

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   Dec 9, 2021 · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book...

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2. lithub.com › the-best-reviewed-fiction-of-2021The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2021 - Literary Hub

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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.

3. www.shortform.com › best-books › genre100 Best War Fiction Books of All Time - Shortform

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   • The Things They Carried. Tim O'Brien | 5.00. A classic, life-changing meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling, with more than two-million copies in print.
   • All the Light We Cannot See. Anthony Doerr | 4.82. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
   • The Book Thief. Markus Zusak | 4.73. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow.
   • Catch-22. Joseph Heller, Christopher Buckley | 4.72. This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2021/12/03 › booksNew Historical Fiction to Read - The New York Times

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   Dec 3, 2021 · Consider, for example, Judith McCormack, whose THE SINGING FOREST (Biblioasis, 302 pp., paper, $16.95) blends thought-provoking reflections on the moral reckoning of war crimes with a warm, wry...

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   Taylor Jenkins Reid’s jagged ode to the 1980s explores the combustible nature of family secrets, severe heartbreak, and Too Much Alcohol. Reid has a way with recent history. She won the Historical Fiction category in 2019 for her 1970s pop parable, Daisy Jones & the Six. All Nominees •.

6. www.shortform.com › best-books › genre100 Best War Books of All Time (Updated for 2021) - Shortform

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   The world’s best war books of all time. Recommended by leading experts like Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, and Richard Branson.

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   What is a good book about war?

   • is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. Recommended by Lawrence Kaplan, and 1 others. Lawrence Kaplan Dispatches came out in 1977, soon after the fall of Saigon. It’s delivered in the voice of the New Journalism of the era. Herr takes us up close, on patrol with American troops.

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   Is the Forever War a good book?

   • The Forever War is probably my favorite fiction book. (I love sci fi.) (Source) Bertalan Meskó Even William Gibson said it might be one of the best science fiction war novels ever. The far future of humanity, biology and warfare.

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   Is World War II a great novel?

   • Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation.

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   • Greg Garrett World War Z is a novel that bridges the gap between pulp and high literature. It takes a subject matter which we would think of as mainstream geek culture, but it finds universal human themes, develops characters that you care about, and also manages to be culturally critical.

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   What is a good book about war crimes?

   • THE SINGING FOREST, by Judith McCormack. (Biblioasis, 302 pp., paper, $16.95.) A young lawyer in present-day Toronto grapples with the moral reckoning of war crimes as she probes a mass murder committed by Stalin’s security police in 1930s Belarus. TENDERNESS, by Alison MacLeod. (Bloomsbury, 640 pp., $29.)

   The Best Historical Fiction of 2021 - The New York Times

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   What is a good book about World War II?

   • Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II, as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. See more recommendations for this book...

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2021/12/15 › booksTimes Critics’ Top Books of 2021 - The New York Times

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   Dec 15, 2021 · The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.