Authors Pick The Best Books of 2021

I love seeing what my favourite authors have been reading recently so I look through a number of lists that collect the recent and backlisted books that writers have been recommending as their top reads of 2021. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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New Statesman Books of the Year: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/...
Guardian Observer: https://www.theguardian.com/books/202...
inews: https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/chr...


The Wainwright Prize shortlist:    • The Best New Nature Writing 2021  

The Portico Prize 2022 shortlist:    • The Portico Prize 2022 Shortlist  

Reacting to the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize:    • The 2021 Booker Prize Winner Reaction...  


Books discussed & purchase links:

One of Them – Musa Okwonga
https://tidd.ly/3E1vUmR

Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
https://tidd.ly/31V1l5n

C+nto & Othered Poems – Joelle Taylor
https://tidd.ly/33BBboH

Poor – Caleb Femi
https://tidd.ly/3E272LB

Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
https://tidd.ly/2QskQMn

Burntcoat – Sarah Hall
https://tidd.ly/3lZZh1X

A Perfect Cemetery – Federico Falco
https://tidd.ly/3yuzkNP

Dog Island – Philippe Claudel
https://tidd.ly/3IYQmIS

O Caledonia – Elspeth Barker
https://tidd.ly/3GLP024

The Prophets – Robert Jones Jr
https://tidd.ly/3601seL

The Idea of the Brain – Matthew Cobb
https://tidd.ly/3DZkM9R

A Look at My Life – Eileen Agar
https://tidd.ly/3sclJts

The Mirror and the Palette – Jennifer Higgie
https://tidd.ly/3269iEo

Forty Names – Parwana Fayyaz
https://tidd.ly/3s8yG7l

Great Circle – Maggie Shipstead
https://tidd.ly/3mcUivw

The Magician – Colm Toibin
https://tidd.ly/3dmqLeh

The Poems 1961-2020 – Derek Mahon
https://tidd.ly/3EXcyR3

The Works of Guillume Dustan Volume 1
https://tidd.ly/3GN1hDf

The Fortune Men – Nadifa Mohamed
https://tidd.ly/34qqlPC

The Windrush Betrayal – Amelia Gentleman
https://tidd.ly/3ywLYvC

Hope Not Fear – Hassan Akkad
https://tidd.ly/31WtaKD

Burning the Books – Richard Ovenden
https://tidd.ly/32c0wVz

Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
https://tidd.ly/3ywd2LF

The Promise – Damon Galgut
https://tidd.ly/3GnnYxV

The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel – Arnold Wesker
https://tidd.ly/3E2nOdx

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed – Mariana Enriquez
https://tidd.ly/3dcXiTv

Failures of State – Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott
https://tidd.ly/3maDOUC

Spike: The Virus v The People – Jeremy Farrar
https://tidd.ly/3oZFjqx

The Premonition – Michael Lewis
https://tidd.ly/3dVJbT9

Empireland – Sathnam Sanghera
https://tidd.ly/3GGYPOO

The New Age of Empire – Kehinde Andrews
https://tidd.ly/3H61qlJ

Green Unpleasant Land – Corinne Fowler
https://tidd.ly/3mdnwuh

The Island of Missing Trees – Elif Shafak
https://tidd.ly/3tyPvFL

The Pages – Hugo Hamilton
https://tidd.ly/3dWJJZd

Going to My Father's House – Patrick Joyce
https://tidd.ly/3IWg68n

Selected Poems – John McAuliffe
https://tidd.ly/3m7wadO

I Belong Here – Anita Sethi
https://tidd.ly/37DVkJy

Thin Places – Kerri ni Dochartaigh
https://tidd.ly/3iFX2QP

Sea State – Tabitha Lasley
https://tidd.ly/3GSQgAG

Mrs Caliban – Rachel Ingalls
https://tidd.ly/3CcBvpH

Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
https://tidd.ly/3F3Hbo5

Dark Neighbourhood – Vanessa Onwuemezi
https://tidd.ly/3AsAYyW

No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood
https://tidd.ly/3F8AKzZ

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch – Rivka Galchen
https://tidd.ly/3DJrXTx

Pilgrim Bell – Kaveh Akbar
https://tidd.ly/3GP6zOH

Had I Known – Barbara Ehrenreich
https://tidd.ly/3yxncvr

My Phantoms – Gwendoline Riley
https://tidd.ly/33qP0pI

Asylum Road – Olivia Sudjic
https://tidd.ly/3ixiTIB

Tess of the d'Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
https://tidd.ly/33p847N

White Hot Light – Frank Huyler
https://tidd.ly/3yxWliM

Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
https://tidd.ly/3p2lEqj

Darryl – Jackie Ess
https://tidd.ly/31XjO1d

Men In My Situation – Per Petterson
https://tidd.ly/3p1tTTm

Crossroads – Jonathan Franzen
https://tidd.ly/3FFGBMS

Black Food – Bryant Terry
https://tidd.ly/3q1tDmA


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