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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleThe best books of the year 2021 - BBC

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   From award-winning fiction to moving memoir, here are BBC Culture's top reading picks of 2021. Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead. Following two acclaimed, heavyweight (and Pulitzer Prize-winning...

2. bookshop.org › lists › the-10-best-books-of-2021-newTHE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2021 - New York Times Book Review

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   The New York Times reviews close to a thousand books a year. These are the ten titles (five fiction and five nonfiction) that the editors of The New York Times Books Review have chosen as the best books of 2021.

3. www.standard.co.uk › culture › booksBest fiction 2021: The best new books to read this year, from ...

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   We’ve put together our edit of the most unmissable fiction hitting shelves in 2021, from Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, to help you curate your reading list....

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

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   • The Storm Is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
   • Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia
   • The Radical Potter by Tristram Hunt
   • Matrix by Lauren Groff
   • Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
   • The Lyrics by Paul Mccartney
   • The Premonition by Michael Lewis
   • Generations by Bobby Duffy
   • The Swallows’ Flight by Hilary Mckay
   • Stop Bloody Bossing Me About by Quentin Letts

   An exposé of the bizarre online cult QAnon – its Trump-loving followers believe in a Satan-worshipping, child-abducting cabal led by Hillary Clinton. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   Vicariously enjoy the buzz of 1920s Harlem nightlife in this thriller about waitress Louise Lloyd, who punches a racist cop and ends up helping the police in a manhunt for a killer. Buy the book.

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   The indefatigable one-legged artist and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood personified the optimism of Georgian Britain. Hunt brings him brilliantly to life. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   Set in an English abbey in the 12th century, this pitch-perfect novel follows an unwilling nun called Marie de France (a real poet) who ends up as a power-hungry abbess. Read the full review.

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   The controversial psychologist muses on mortality and wages war on the fogginess of convenient and avoidant thinking, in this follow-up to his 12 Rules for Life. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   The stories behind the songs may be familiar to Beatles fans, but it’s charming to read about them from McCartney’s thoughtful perspective in this handsomely boxed two-volume set. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   Lewis’s study turns the still-unfolding story of the coronavirus pandemic into a slickly thrillerish cautionary tale about the interface between science and institutional politics. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   Over-70s are more than twice as likely to vote Tory than Labour. Duffy explains this political divide while also showing how ties of mutual affection unite the old and young. Buy the book.

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   A sequel to The Skylarks’ War, we join the next generation as they come of age in the Second World War, in an action-packed saga for readers of nine-plus. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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   Funny and furious, the parliamentary sketch-writer takes aim at petty-minded officialdom and woke quangos in a book-length harrumph. Read the full review. Buy the book.

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5. bookmarks.reviews › the-best-reviewed-books-ofThe Best Reviewed Books of 2021: - Book Marks

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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.

6. lithub.com › the-10-best-book-reviews-of-2021The 10 Best Book Reviews of 2021 - Literary Hub

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   Dec 20, 2021 · From longform online essays to crisp perspectives in print, here are my 10 favorite book reviews of 2021. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s “Rotten Tomatoes for books.” *

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

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   Dec 15, 2021 · Below, selections by The New York Times’s daily book critics of their favorite titles from the past 12 months. The choices come from our four staff critics, Dwight Garner, Jennifer Szalai, Molly...