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The Best of 2021: Fiction

Fiction

Fiction

The Turnout

Megan Abbot

Razorblade Tears

S.A. Cosby

Clark and Division

Naomi Hirahara

Lightning Strike

William Kent Krueger

Dream Girl

Laura Lippman

The Killing Hills

Chris Offutt

Harlem Shuffle

Colson Whitehead

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mango, Mambo, and Murder

Raquel V. Reyes

         

 

The Final Girl Support Group

Grady Hendrix

Reprieve: A Novel

James Han Mattson

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

The Book of Accidents

Chuck Wendig

My Heart is a Chainsaw

Stephen Graham Jones

 

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

The Removed

Brandon Hobson

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr. 

Once There Were Wolves

Charlotte McConaghy

Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

The Five Wounds

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Matrix

Lauren Groff

 

The Reading List

Sara Nisha Adams

The Personal Librarian

Marie Benedict 

Girls With Bright Futures

Tracey Dobmeier

Libertie

Kaitlyn Greenidge

The Great Mistake

Jonathan Lee

Nightbitch

Rachel Yoder

L.A. Weather

Maria Amparo Escandon

Smile and Look Pretty

Amanda Pellegrino

 

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

Talia Hibbert

Hana Khan Carries On

Uzma Jalaluddin

A Thorn in the Saddle

Rebekah Weatherspoon

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

Erica Ridley

A Lot Like Adios

Alexis Daria

The Love Con

Seressia Glass

 

 

 

The Unbroken

C.L. Clark

Domesticating Dragons

Dan Koboldt

Winter's Orbit

Everina Maxwell

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

The Jasmine Throne

Tasha Suri

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

A Spindle Splintered

Alix E. Harrow

No Gods, No Monsters

Cadwell Turnball

         

 

Catch the Rabbit

Lana Bastasic

The Book of Mother

Violaine Huisman