Round-ups

Time Out's Best Books of 2021 /  by Time Out Bookstore

As seen in Metro Magazine

Jenna

Times Like These by Michelle Langstone
Uprising by Nic Low
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

Cait

Lolita in the Afterlife by Jenny Minton Quigley
Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki
Night Bus by Zuo Ma

Roman

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
A Country for Dying by Annie Ernaux

Wendy

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

Manon

A Swim in the Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
The Right to Sex by Amia Srini

Sophie

Beautiful World, Where Are You? by Sally Rooney
No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Slave Play by Jeremy O Harris

Suri

No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
Please, Call Me Jesus by Sam Te Kani

Amanda

Rangikura by Tayi Tibble
The Hard Crowd by Rachel Kushner
Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados

Saraid

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
Luster by Raven Leilani
Winter in Sokcho by Elsa Shua Dusapin

Katie

Women of Troy by Pat Barker
Roxy by Neal Shusterman
The House in the Cerulean Sea
T. J. Klune

Elijah

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
Fragments of an Infinite Memory by Mael Renouard

Lauren

Matrix by Lauren Groff
The Last Graduate by Naomi Novak
These Hollow Vows by Lexi Ryan