# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2021

The ten books the New York Times Book Review picked as the best of 2021: five fiction and five non-fiction.

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- Dec 1, 2021 · arnaud_couchpotato
- https://even.best/en/l/1629/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2021

## Top 10

1. **How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **Intimacies — Katie Kitamura** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
3. **When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
4. **The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
5. **No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
6. **Red Comet — Heather Clark** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
7. **How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
8. **On Juneteenth — Annette Gordon-Reed** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
9. **Invisible Child — Andrea Elliott** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
10. **The Copenhagen Trilogy — Tove Ditlevsen** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.

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