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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 · 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 ...

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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. interestingliterature.com › 2021 › 0910 of the Best Novels and Short Stories about the First World War

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   And what, for that matter, of the non-fiction memoirs from those who lived through the conflict? Below we introduce ten of the best books and stories about World War One. Which books have we missed off the list? 1. Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier.

4. taskandpurpose.com › gear › best-military-books-2Best Military Books We Read in 2021 - Task & Purpose

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   • ‘Missionaries’ by Phil Klay. See More Reviews. SEE IT. Winner of the National Book Award, Phil Klay’s Missionaries is a complex and incredibly nuanced web of stories.
   • ‘The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived’ by Adm. William McRaven (ret.) See More Reviews. SEE IT. Building upon the success of his previous works, Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life and Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations, retired Adm.
   • ‘The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories are Heroic’ by Joseph Kassabian. See More Reviews. SEE IT. I had been meaning to read Joseph Kassabian’s 2018 memoir about his experiences fighting in the peak of the Afghanistan War for some time.
   • ‘Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs’ by David Philipps. See More Reviews. SEE IT. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Philipps presents an extensively-researched account of the investigation and trial of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher over allegations he killed a captured juvenile ISIS fighter in Mosul, Iraq in 2017.

5. www.ft.com › content › 7a881a03/2462/459e-930c-f526eBest books of 2021: Fiction - Financial Times

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   Nov 18, 2021 · Laura Battle. November 17 2021. Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free. Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Promise. by Damon Galgut,...

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6. www.goodreads.com › choiceawards › best-historicalReaders' Favorite Historical Fiction 2021 - Goodreads

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   Announcing the best books of the year! The Goodreads Choice Awards are the only major book awards decided by readers.

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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.)

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   What are the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards?

   • The 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards have two rounds of voting open to all registered Goodreads members. Winners will be announced December 09, 2021. In the first round there are 20 books in each of the 15 categories, and members can vote for one book in each category.

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   Was 2021 really the year we wished it had been?

   • Let’s be real: 2021 wasn’t really the year we all wished it had been. As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic stretched on, many of us spent more time than we would have liked behind closed doors, left to our own devices for fun and entertainment.

   Best Military Books We Read in 2021 - Task & Purpose

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   Is missionaries a good book?

   • Gut-wrenching at times, Klay pulls no punches painting the backstories of his protagonists and the circumstances that bring them all together. Missionaries is the type of vivid and insightful book that keeps the reader thinking about it long after they’ve put it down. — Brett Allen, contributor

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8. www.telegraph.co.uk › best-books-2021-read-winterThe 75 best books of 2021 to read this winter - The Telegraph

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   Dec 23, 2021 · 4: The Spectre of War by Jonathan Haslam. 2021’s most impressive work of history pulls together hidden threads to show how fear of Bolshevism poisoned international relations between the wars.