No matter what else happened, 2021 was a banner year for incredible novels. 2021 has brought us some amazing novels that shifted our perspectives, uncovered essential truths, and encouraged us forward. Throughout the year, we’ve been updating you on the best novels our editors and writers have read, we’re sharing our final verdicts, and offering some great reads for the slowed-down days and weeks ahead. Rather than a definitive “best of the list,” this is simply what we’ve loved this year—and we hope that you do too.
Best Novels to Read of 2021
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| Infinite Country | Patricia Engel |
| Sankofa | Chibundu Onuzo |
| The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah |
| What's Mine And Yours | Naima Coster |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| Our Country Friends | Gary Shteyngart |
| Crossroads | Johnathan Franzen |
| Count the Ways | Joyce Maynard |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Dava Shastri's Last Day | Kirthana Ramisetti |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| What Storm, What Thunder | Myriam J.A. Chancy |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| The Prophets | Robert Jones R |
| The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| How Lucky | Will Leitch |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| The Lost Apothecary | Saram Penner |
| Fault Lines | Emily Itami |
| The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris |
| the Seed Keeper | Diane Wilson |
| Mary Jane | Jessica Anya Blau |
| The Rib King | Ladee Hubbard |
| What You Can See From Here | Mariana Leky |
| Sorrow and Bliss | Meg Mason |
| The Five Wounds | Kirstin Valdez Quade |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Matrix | Lauren Groff |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| The love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| I love You But I've Chosen Darkness | Claire Vaye Watkins |
| Milk Fed | Melissa Broder |
| The Atmospherians | Alex McElroy |
| Concrete Rose | Angie Thomas |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| the Final Revival of Opal & Nev | Dawnie Walton |
| Palmares | Gayl Jones |
| Virtue | Hermione Hoby |
| How Beautiful We Were | Imbolo Mbue |
| Repreive | James Han Mattson |
| A Calling for Charlie Barnes | Joshua Ferris |
| Harrow | Joy Williams |
| Libertie | Kaitlyn Greenidge |
| Early Morning Riser | Katherne Heiny |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Matrix | Lauren Groff |
| Fake Accounts | Lauren Oyler |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| Appleseed | Matt Bell |
| What's Mine and Yours | Naima Coster |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| Infinite Country | Patrician Engel |
| Mona | Pola Oloixarac |
| Nightbitch | Rachel Yoder |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris |
| The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave |
| The Maidens | Alex Michaelides |
| Lore | Alexandra Bracken |
| The Love Hypothesis | Ali Hazelwood |
| Hail Mary | Andy Weir |
| The Push | Ashley Audrain |
| One last Stop | Casey McQuiston |
| The Spanish Love Deception | Elena Armas |
| People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| The Four Winds | Kristin Hannah |
| Apples Never Fall | Liane Moriarty |
| The Wife Upstairs | Rachel Hawkins |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| A Court of Silver Flames | Sarah J. Maas |
| The Lost Apothecary | Sarah Penner |
| Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid |
| Matrix | Lauren Groff |
| Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
| Palmares | Gayl Jones |
| The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki |
| China Room | Sunjeev Sahota |
| A Shock | Keither Ridgway |
| Sorrow and Bliss | Meg Mason |
| Assembly | Natasha Brown |
| The Manningtree witches | AK Blakemore |
| Treacle Walker | Alan Garner |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Open Water | Caleb Azumah Nelson |
| The Magician | Colm Toibin |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| The Promise | Damon Galgut |
| Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford |
| My Phantoms | Gwendoline Riley |
| Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Oh William! | Lucy Barton |
| Painting Time | Maylis de Kerangel |
| A Burning | Megha Majumdar |
| The Fortune Men | Nadifa Mohamed |
| The Books of Jacob | Olga Tokarczuk |
| Women of Troy | Pat Barker |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| How to Kidnap the Rich | Rahul Raina |
| Luster | Raven Leilani |
| Pity the Beast | Robin McLean |
| Mrs Death Misses Death | Salena Godden |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| The Hummingbird | Sandro Veronesi |
| Burntcoat | Sarah Hall |
| Bina | Anakana Schofield |
| Damnation Spring | Ash Davidson |
| Wayward | Dana Spiotta |
| The Final Revival of Opal & Nev | Dawnie Walton |
| Winter in Sokcho | Elisa Shua Dusapin |
| Our Country Friends | Gary Shteyngart |
| The love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| The Fugitivities | Jesse McCarthy |
| Three Rooms | Jo Hamya |
| My Monticello | Jocelyn Nicole Johnson |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
| Foregone | Russell Banks |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Build Your House Around My body | Violet Kupersmith |
| Skinship | Yoon Choi |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris |
| Hell of a Book | Jason Mott |
| Shadow Life | Hiromi Goto |
| Light from Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki |
| She Who Became the Sun | Shelley Parker-Chan |
| Act Your Age, Eve Brown | Talia Hibbert |
| All Her Little Secrets | Wanda M Morris |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| The love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| The Magician | Colm Toibin |
| Wayward | Dana Spiotta |
| Our Country Friends | Gary Shteyngart |
| A Calling for Charlie Barnes | Joshua Ferris |
| One Last Stop | Casey McQuiston |
| My Year Abroad | Chang-rae Lee |
| The Promise | Damon Galgut |
| How Beautiful We Were | Imbolo Mbue |
| Libertie | Kaitlyn Greenidge |
| The Prophets | Robert Jones Jr |
| Something New Under the Sun | Alexandra Kleeman |
| The War for Gloria | Atticus Lish |
| Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford |
| Appleseed | Matt Bell |
| What Strange Paradise | Omar El Akkad |
| The Trees | Percival Everett |
| Razorblade Tears | S.A. Cosby |
| Build Your House Around My body | Violet Kupersmith |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| Invisible Child | Andrea Elliott |
| Burnt Sugar | Avni Doshi |
| When We Cease to Understand the World | Benjamin Labatut |
| The Sun Collective | Charles Baxter |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| Oh William! | Elizabeth Strout |
| The love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| How Beautiful We Were | Imbolo Mbue |
| The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels | India Holton |
| The Plot | Jean Hanff Korelitz |
| Ghosts of New York | Jim Lewis |
| The Netanyahus | Joshua Cohen |
| The Morning Star | Karl Ove Nausgaard |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Send for Me | Lauren Fox |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| A Lie Somone Told You About Yourself | Peter Ho Davies |
| Velvet Was the Night | Silvia Moreno-Garcia |
| The Book of Mother | Violaine Huisman |
| Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth | Wole Soyinka |
| Strange Beasts of China | Yan Ge |
| oh William | Elizabeth Strout |
| A Passage North | Anuk Arudpragasam |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| Folklorn | Angela Mi Young Ha |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Filthy Animals | Brandon Taylor |
| Dear Miss Metropolitan | Carolyn Ferrell |
| I love You But I've Chosen Darkness | Clare Vaye Watkins |
| the Magician | Colm Toibin |
| The Liar's Dictionary | Eley Williams |
| Palmares | Gayl Jones |
| Today A women Went Mad in the Supermarket | Hilma Wolitzer |
| Abundance | Jakob Guanzon |
| Hell of a Book | Jason Mott |
| A Calling for Charlie Barnes | Joshua Ferris |
| The Five Wounds | Kirstin Valdez Quade |
| Win me Something | Kyle Lucia Wu |
| Five Tuesdays in Winter | Lily King |
| Last night at the telegraph club | Malinda Lo |
| Fight Night | Miriam Teows |
| Walking on Cowrie Shells | Nana Nkweti |
| What Strange Paradise | Omar El akkad |
| No One is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| Night Came With Many Stars | Simon Van Booy |
| China Room | Sunjeer Sahota |
| The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguygen |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| The Sweetness of Water | Nathan Harris |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| These Precious Days | Ann Patchett |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura |
| The Sentence | Louise Erdrich |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| The Dangers of Smoking in Bed | Marianna Enriquez |
| Infinite Country | Patricia Engel |
| Bewilderment | Richard Powers |
| The Man Who Lived Underground | Richard Wright |
| New York , My Village | Uwem Akpan |
| Mrs March | Virgina Feito |
| The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |
| Somebody's Daughter | Ashley C Ford |
| The War for Gloria | Atticus Lish |
| Wayward | Dana Spiotta |
| A Shock | Keith Ridgway |
| Assembly | Natasha Brown |
| Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
| All That She Carried | Tiya Miles |
| Harlem Shuffle | Colson Whitehead |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura |
| Who is Maud Dixon | Alexandra Andrews |
| Something New Under the Sun | Alexandra Kleeman |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr |
| Afterparties | Anthony Veasna So |
| A Passage North | Anuk Arudpragasam |
| Somebody's Daughter | Ashley C Ford |
| The Removed | Brandon Hobson |
| One last Stop | Casey McQuiston |
| My Year Abroad | Chang-rae Lee |
| Sankofa | Chibundu Onuzo |
| The Life of the Mind | Christine Smallwood |
| The promise | Damon Galgut |
| Real Estate | Deborah Levy |
| Oh William | Elizabeth Strout |
| Our Country Friends | Gary Shetyngart |
| The Sum of Us | Heather McGhee |
| While we were Dating | Jasmine Guillory |
| Hell of a Book | Jason Mott |
| Silverview | John Le Carre |
| Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen |
| Libertie | Kaitlyn Greenidge |
| Seeing Ghosts | Kat Chow |
| There's no Such Thing as An Easy Job | Kikuko Tsumaura |
| Seek You | Kristen Radtke |
| The Rib King | Ladee Hubbard |
| Matrix | Lauren Groll |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead |
| Acts of Desperation | Megan Nolan |
| Milk Fed | Melissa Broder |
| Heaven | Mieko Kawakanmi |
| The Sweetness of Water | Nathan Harris |
| The Chosen and the Beautiful | Nghi Vo |
| Remote Control | Nnedi Okarafor |
| No one is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood |
| The Trees | Percival Everett |
| Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
| Sorrowland | Rivers Solomon |
| Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch | Rivka Galchen |
| The Prophets | Robert Jones Jr |
| The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki |
| Razorblade tears | SA Cosby |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney |
| China Room | Sunjeev Sahota |
| All that She Carried | Tiya Miles |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris |
| The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
| Silverview | John Le Carre |
| My Year Abroad | Chang Rae Lee |
| Agatha of Little Neon | Claire Luchette |
| I love You But I've Chosen Darkness | Claire Vaye Watkins |
| the Magician | Colm Toibin |
| Wayward | Dana Spiotta |
| I wished | Dennis Cooper |
| Ghosts | Dolly Alderton |
| Everything I have is Yours | Eleanor Henderson |
| The Fourth Child | Jessica Winter |
| Crossroads | Johnathan Franzen |
| A Calling for Charlie Barnes | Joshua Ferris |
| Intimacies | Katie Kitamura |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| With Teeth | Kristin Arnett |
| The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave |
| House of Sticks | Ly Tran |
| Milk Fed | Melissa Broder |
| Misfits | Michela Coel |
| Aftershocks | Nadia Owusu |
| Nora | Nuala O'Connor |
| Second Place | Rachel Cusk |
| The Other Black Girl | Zakiya |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| Somebody's Daughter | Ashley C Ford |
| All That She Carried | Tiya Miles |
| Crossroads | Jnathan Franzen |
| Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Matrix | Lauren Groff |
All novels featured in the CEOWORLD magazine are independently selected by our editors. Happy reading!
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