BEST OF BOOKS IN 2021
Top 50 – Les incontournables de 2021
| Rang | Titre | Auteur | Genre / Particularité |
| 1 | Beautiful World, Where Are You | Sally Rooney | Roman générationnel |
| 2 | Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | Roman historique et d’anticipation |
| 3 | Matrix | Lauren Groff | Roman historique |
| 4 | Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | Science-fiction |
| 5 | The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | Roman américain |
| 6 | Crossroads | Jonathan Franzen | Roman familial |
| 7 | The Book of Form and Emptiness | Ruth Ozeki | Roman philosophique |
| 8 | No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood | Roman sur l’ère numérique |
| 9 | Second Place | Rachel Cusk | Roman introspectif |
| 10 | Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead | Roman historique |
| 11 | Bewilderment | Richard Powers | Roman écologique |
| 12 | The Committed | Viet Thanh Nguyen | Roman politique |
| 13 | China Room | Sunjeev Sahota | Roman historique |
| 14 | Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth | Wole Soyinka | Roman satirique |
| 15 | The Copenhagen Trilogy | Tove Ditlevsen | Mémoires |
| 16 | Afterparties | Anthony Veasna So | Nouvelles |
| 17 | Aftershocks | Nadia Owusu | Mémoires |
| 18 | 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows | Ai Weiwei | Autobiographie |
| 19 | Call Us What We Carry | Amanda Gorman | Poésie |
| 20 | All That She Carried | Tiya Miles | Non-fiction historique |
| 21 | The Code Breaker | Walter Isaacson | Biographie scientifique |
| 22 | Empire of Pain | Patrick Radden Keefe | Enquête journalistique |
| 23 | How the Word Is Passed | Clint Smith | Essai historique |
| 24 | Under a White Sky | Elizabeth Kolbert | Essai écologique |
| 25 | Four Hundred Souls | Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain | Essai collectif |
| 26 | Intimacies | Katie Kitamura | Roman psychologique |
| 27 | The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | Roman historique |
| 28 | Assembly | Natasha Brown | Roman contemporain |
| 29 | The Sentence | Louise Erdrich | Roman contemporain |
| 30 | The Prophets | Robert Jones Jr. | Roman LGBTQ+ |
| 31 | The Final Revival of Opal & Nev | Dawnie Walton | Roman musical |
| 32 | The Paper Palace | Miranda Cowley Heller | Roman dramatique |
| 33 | The Push | Ashley Audrain | Thriller psychologique |
| 34 | Malibu Rising | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Roman familial |
| 35 | Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | Roman d’anticipation |
| 36 | Light Perpetual | Francis Spufford | Roman historique |
| 37 | The Sweetness of Water | Nathan Harris | Roman historique |
| 38 | The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak | Roman écologique |
| 39 | The Night Watchman (édition élargie) | Louise Erdrich | Roman historique |
| 40 | The Other Black Girl | Zakiya Dalila Harris | Roman satirique |
| 41 | The Jigsaw Man | Nadine Matheson | Polar |
| 42 | The Madness of Crowds | Louise Penny | Polar |
| 43 | The Man Who Lived Underground | Richard Wright | Roman inédit (posthume) |
| 44 | The Rock Eaters | Brenda Peynado | Nouvelles |
| 45 | The Shimmering State | Meredith Westgate | Roman psychologique |
| 46 | The Startup Wife | Tahmima Anam | Roman satirique |
| 47 | The Turnout | Megan Abbott | Thriller |
| 48 | The Vixen | Francine Prose | Roman historique |
| 49 | The War for Gloria | Atticus Lish | Roman dramatique |
| 50 | The World Gives Way | Marissa Levien | Science-fiction |
Ce panorama montre la diversité de 2021 : romans générationnels (Rooney), fresques historiques (Shipstead, Towles), dystopies et SF (Weir, Ishiguro), voix poétiques (Gorman), et enquêtes journalistiques (Keefe, Smith).
