The Best Books of 2021: Nonfiction
/You too can be pleasantly surprised by the odd choices and risky innovations so many writers make in the books on this list.
Read MoreYou too can be pleasantly surprised by the odd choices and risky innovations so many writers make in the books on this list.
Read More2021 saw a bumper-crop of truly excellent fiction, possibly because lockdowns prevented writers from doing virtually anything else.
Read MoreRampant narcissism, shallow MFA programs, and poisonous social media were generous contributors to the worst fiction of 2021.
Read MoreIn spite of some significant obstacles, these impressive biographies were brought to life in 2021.
Read MoreThe best history volumes published by popular presses, academic presses, and specialty presses this year challenge the status quo.
Read MoreThe best of nature writing in 2021 provided a guaranteed refuge from all the ills of the world.
Read MoreScience has been proven to be a tremendously important topic—here are the best of a very fine crop.
Read MoreThis year saw a slew of first-rate historical novels, and these were the best of them.
Read MoreReaders, whose nerves were probably already on the ragged edge, could still enjoy these thrillers.
Read MoreHow can new novels about parallel dimensions, steadily-complicating AI, hostile alien hellscapes, and most of all deadly society-altering pandemics compete with the real world in 2021? The novels on this list rose to the challenge.
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