The New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2021

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/bo... Further viewing film 🎥: The Washington Post’s top 10:    • The Washington Post’s 10 Best Books of 2021   The NY Times 100 Notable for 2021:    • The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2021   Last year’s NY Times top 10:    • The New York Times Best Books of 2020 Reac...   The 2019 NY Times top 10:    • The New York Times Best Books of 2019 Reac...   My reaction to the National Book Award Longlist:    • National Book Award for Fiction 2021 Longl...   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-m... But wait, there's more! Website: https://supposedlyfun.com/ Goodreads:   / gregory-baird   Instagram:   / supposedlyfun   Twitter:   / supposedlyfun