Time's 10 best fiction books of 2021
The top 3 according to 2 votes from people: The Prophets — Robert Jones Jr. · My Monticello — Jocelyn Nicole Johnson · Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters. (Updated Dec 10, 2023.)
The ten fiction books Time magazine picked as the best of 2021, in the list published on 10 December 2021.
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Top 10
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The Prophets — Robert Jones Jr.
No. 2. Love between two enslaved men on a plantation.
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My Monticello — Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
No. 3. Stories; the title piece is an escape to Thomas Jefferson's home.
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Detransition, Baby — Torrey Peters
No. 4. Three people and an unexpected pregnancy.
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
No. 5. A family saga in Georgia.
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The Life of the Mind — Christine Smallwood
No. 6. An adjunct lecturer after a miscarriage.
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Cloud Cuckoo Land — Anthony Doerr
No. 7. Constantinople, Idaho and a spaceship linked by an ancient text.
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Afterparties — Anthony Veasna So
No. 8. Stories of Cambodian Americans in California; published posthumously.
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Open Water — Caleb Azumah Nelson
No. 9. Two young Black artists in London.
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Klara and the Sun — Kazuo Ishiguro
No. 10. An Artificial Friend observes a family.
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Great Circle — Maggie Shipstead
No. 1. An aviator who attempts to fly around the world via the poles.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (2)
Great Circle è un romanzo enorme, bellissimo.
Detransition, Baby, coraggioso e divertente.