Reviewers' Top Books of 2021

Bookreporter is celebrating its 25th anniversary! We invited ten of our longtime reviewers to share their favorite books of 2021. Our reviewers hail from across the country. They are the heart and soul of Bookreporter, and we were excited to bring this event back for them. Below is a list of the titles they spoke at length about, and you'll notice extras mentioned in the video! 02:15 - Harvey Freedenberg Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders 12:02 - Eileen Zimmerman Nicol Talk to Me by T.C. Boyle Brothers on Three by Abe Streep Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver 22:57 - Ray Palen The Kaiser's Web by Steve Berry Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson Bloodless by Preston & Child 34:04 - Sarah Rachel Egelman The Removed by Brandon Hobson My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Fight Night by Miriam Toews 45:20 - Pauline Finch Queens of the Crusades by Alison Weir The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield What Just Happened by Charles Finch 53:31 - Bronwyn Miller The Girls in the Stilt House by Kelly Mustian These Precious Days by Ann Patchett The Wreckage of My Presence by Casey Wilson 1:01:24 - Norah Piehl Fight Night by Miriam Toews Ballad for Sophie by Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood 1:10:32 - Stuart Shiffman The Trees by Percival Everett Our Team by Luke Epplin Mike Nichols: A Life by Mark Harris 1:23:56 - Megan Elliott No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Just Thieves by Gregory Galloway 1:31:58 - Rebecca Munro The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave Blush by Jamie Brenner The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams Sign up for the weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter here: https://tbrnetwork.com/newsletters/bookreporter-weekly-newsletter-subscribe/ FOLLOW US Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookreporter Website: https://www.bookreporter.com