The Best Books of 2021: Nonfiction
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You too can be pleasantly surprised by the odd choices and risky innovations so many writers make in the books on this list.
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The Worst Books of 2021: Nonfiction
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2021 has given us some of the worst, most disgraceful books ever published in US history.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Fiction
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2021 saw a bumper-crop of truly excellent fiction, possibly because lockdowns prevented writers from doing virtually anything else.
Read MoreThe Worst Books of 2021: Fiction
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Rampant narcissism, shallow MFA programs, and poisonous social media were generous contributors to the worst fiction of 2021.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Thrillers
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Readers, whose nerves were probably already on the ragged edge, could still enjoy these thrillers.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: SFF!
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How can new novels about parallel dimensions, steadily-complicating AI, hostile alien hellscapes, and most of all deadly society-altering pandemics compete with the real world in 2021? The novels on this list rose to the challenge.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Debut Fiction!
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What happens when every author in the world gets the endless amounts of free time they're always whining about? Some great debut fiction!
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2021: Reprints!
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2021 had an encouragingly wide array of interesting reprints. Steve points you to the best of them.
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Comics! Wolverine and JLA!
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Only two comics this week, although my nemesis Pepito just recently returned from an exclusive tour of Europe and the subcontinent, so I’ll doubtless be rooting through a pile of poop sometime soon.
In the meantime, I bought Justice League of America #1 and the latest issue of Wolverine. Both were meticulously well-done (fantastic artwork in both cases), and both irritated the piss out of me.
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