# Time's 10 best fiction books of 2021

The ten fiction books Time magazine picked as the best of 2021, in the list published on 10 December 2021.

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- Dec 10, 2023 · Enrico Costa
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## Top 10

1. **The Prophets — Robert Jones Jr.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 2. Love between two enslaved men on a plantation.
2. **My Monticello — Jocelyn Nicole Johnson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 3. Stories; the title piece is an escape to Thomas Jefferson's home.
3. **Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 4. Three people and an unexpected pregnancy.
4. **The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 5. A family saga in Georgia.
5. **The Life of the Mind — Christine Smallwood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 6. An adjunct lecturer after a miscarriage.
6. **Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 7. Constantinople, Idaho and a spaceship linked by an ancient text.
7. **Afterparties — Anthony Veasna So** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 8. Stories of Cambodian Americans in California; published posthumously.
8. **Open Water — Caleb Azumah Nelson** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 9. Two young Black artists in London.
9. **Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 10. An Artificial Friend observes a family.
10. **Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — No. 1. An aviator who attempts to fly around the world via the poles.

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