The New York Times unveiled its list of the ten best books of 2021 (five fiction and five nonfiction). I look forward to this list every year, so of course, I wanted to take a look and react. We’ll also talk about some surprising omissions and how many of these books I managed to predict.

Check out the list: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/books/review/best-books-2021.html?referringSource=articleShare

Further viewing film 🎥:
The Washington Post’s top 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveZB5VQMkg
The NY Times 100 Notable for 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8_m1ast2I0&t=6s
Last year’s NY Times top 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHo9RlbDiQ&t=14s
The 2019 NY Times top 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CSk7NO5yyU&t=307s
My reaction to the National Book Award Longlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myHLkssTYd4&t=3s

Titles mentioned 📚:
How Beautiful We Were, Imbolo Mbue
Intimacies, Katie Kitamura
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fannone Jeffers
No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West)
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency, Tove Ditlevsen (translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman)
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City, Andrea Elliott
On Juneteenth, Annette Gordon-Reed
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, Heather Clark

My husband made a cookbook! Check it out here:
https://www.blurb.com/b/10189765-my-mack-and-cheese-cookbook-gifts-from-the-kitche

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