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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2021

The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue · Intimacies — Katie Kitamura · When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut. (Updated Dec 1, 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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Top 10

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    How Beautiful We Were — Imbolo Mbue

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    Intimacies — Katie Kitamura

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    When We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamín Labatut

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    The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

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    No One Is Talking About This — Patricia Lockwood

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    Red Comet — Heather Clark

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    How the Word Is Passed — Clint Smith

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    On Juneteenth — Annette Gordon-Reed

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    Invisible Child — Andrea Elliott

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    The Copenhagen Trilogy — Tove Ditlevsen

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