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The 2022 list has been announced! THE 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 - New York Times Book Review. Walden Pond Books has compiled our own "Best Books" lists for 2021: The Best Books to Give as Gifts This Year: 2021. The Best Cookbooks of the Year: 2021. BIRDS, BIRDERS, & BIRDWATCHING: The Best Books of 2021. MUSIC & MUSICIANS: The Best Books of 2021.
- Infinite Country by Patricia Engel. Infinite Country feels, frankly, like everything 2020's favorite literary lightning rod-slash-punching bag American Dirt was supposed to be: a raw, richly detailed immigration tale rooted in the beautiful specificities of real life.
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. To all the Robinson Crusoes and Counts of Monte Cristo add Marian Graves, a towheaded tomboy who lives as many lives as any great swashbuckler: teenage rumrunner in Prohibition-era Montana, pilot behind enemy lines in WWII Europe—even muse to modern-day Hollywood.
- Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. Equal parts blisteringly honest and generously vulnerable, Zauner's chronicle of the ways in which Korean food—and her family heritage—pulled her back from the brink of despair after her mother's untimely cancer death became the year's must-read memoir for very good reason.
- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. In his debut novel, Jones—creator of the social justice community Son of Baldwin—uses lyrical prose and a hint of narrative mysticism to deliver a love story about two young men enslaved in the antebellum South.
Jun 25, 2021 · Milk Fed by Melissa Broder. Scribner. If self-denial were a sport, Rachel, an aspiring standup comedian and half-hearted employee of an L.A. talent agency, could host her own Olympics. At 24, her ...
Sep 22, 2021 · It’s been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient—learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict.
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- Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. (FSG) 27 Rave • 26 Positive • 25 Mixed • 2 Pan. Listen to an excerpt from Beautiful World, Where Are You here.
- Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 24 Positive • 6 Mixed. “Klara and the Sun confirms one’s suspicion that the contemporary novel’s truest inheritor of Nabokovian estrangement—not to mention its best and deepest Martian—is Ishiguro … Never Let Me Go wrung a profound parable out of such questions: the embodied suggestion of that novel is that a free, long, human life is, in the end, just an unfree, short, cloned life.
- No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead) 31 Rave • 13 Positive • 7 Mixed. Read an interview with Patricia Lockwood here. “Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously.
- Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. (FSG) 32 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “… a novel that takes the religious beliefs of its characters seriously, without ever forgetting how easily faith can twist itself into absurdity … is light on curmudgeonly social commentary.
READERS' FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021. Announcing the winners of the Annual Goodreads Choice Awards, the only major book awards decided by readers. Congratulations to the Readers' Favorite books of the year! View results. New to Goodreads?
23 hours ago · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
