Bookshelf
Locking Up Our Own
James Forman Jr.
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Art of Simple Food
Alice Waters
(Clarkson Potter)
Netherland
Joseph O'Neill
(Pantheon)
The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen
(New York Review Books)
DON’T TELL ANYBODY THE SECRETS I TOLD YOU
Lucinda Williams
(Crown)
The Lifeboat
Charlotte Rogan
(Reagan Arthur Books)
The Sorrows of Others
Ada Zhang
(Catapult)
Too Big To Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
(Viking)
The Reason for God
Timothy Keller
(Dutton)
How Children Succeed
Paul Tough
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
SMALL FRY
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
(Grove Press)
ELF DOG AND OWL HEAD
M.T. Anderson
(Candlewick)
Midnight In Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
(Simon & Schuster)
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW
I.S. Berry
(Atria)
Things become other Things
Craig Mod
(Random House)
Godwin
Joseph O'Neill
(Pantheon)
THE AMEN EFFECT
Sharon Brous
(Avery)
THE UPSTAIRS DELICATESSEN
Dwight Garner
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Everything Store
Brad Stone
(Little, Brown)
NO ROAD LEADING BACK
Chris Heath
(Schocken/Knopf)
CHALLENGER
Adam Higginbotham
(Avid Reader)
NICKED
M.T. Anderson
(Pantheon)
CHERISHED BELONGING
Gregory Boyle
(Avid reader)
CRAZY AS HELL
Hoke S. Glover III & V. Efua Prince
(W.W Norton)
The Years That Matter Most
Paul Tough
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
THE OTHER SIDE OF PROSPECT
Nicholas Dawidoff
(W.W. Norton)
I dream of Joni
Henry Alford
(Gallery)
Permanent Record
Mary H.K. Choi
(Simon & Schuster)
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT
Pagan Kennedy
(Vintage)
Roses
Leila Meacham
(Grand Central Publishing)
GO FORWARD IN LOVE
Timothy Keller
(Zondervan)
THE FOOD OF SICILY
Fabrizia Lanza
(Artisan)
BARN 8
Deb Olin Unferth
(Graywolf)
Furious Hours
Casey Cep
(Knopf)
EMERGENCY CONTACT
Mary H. K. Choi
(Simon & Schuster)
NEGATIVE SPACE
Gillian Linden
(Norton)
CRASH LANDING
Liz Hoffman
(Crown)
DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION
Premal Dharia, James Forman, Jr., & Maria Hawilo
(FSG Originals)
GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE
Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
(The New Press)
THE SECRET MIND OF BERTHA PAPPENHEIM
Gabriel Brownstein
(PublicAffairs)
FIFTEEN CENTS ON THE DOLLAR
Louise Story & Ebony Reed
(Harper)
A WOMAN I KNOW
Mary Haverstick
(Crown)
THE HUNGRY SEASON
Lisa M. Hamilton
(Little, Brown)
EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE
Jonathan Blitzer
(Penguin Press)
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABED SALAMA
Nathan Thrall
(Metropolitan Books)
SEX WITH A BRAIN INJURY
Annie Liontas
(Scribner)
RIVERMAN
Ben McGrath
(Knopf)
DESPERATE
Kris Maher
(Scribner)
Forgive
Timothy Keller
(Viking)
Remodelista
Julie Carlson
(Artisan)
QUARTERLIFE
Satya Byock
(Random House)
Book of Numbers
Joshua Cohen
(Random House)
Masala
Anita Jaisinghani
(Ten Speed Press)
I WOULDN’T DO THAT IF I WERE ME
Jason Gay
(Hachette Books)
Redaction
Reginald Dwayne Betts and Titus Kaphar
(W.W. Norton)
WHITE HOUSE, INC.
Dan Alexander
(Portfolio)
CHILDREN UNDER FIRE
John Woodrow Cox
(Ecco)
BEST AMERICAN MAGAZINE WRITING 2021
American Society of Magazine Editors
(Columbia University Press)
PUBLIC CITIZENS
Paul Sabin
(W.W. Norton & Company)
THEY SAID THEY WANTED REVOLUTION
Neda Toloui-Semnani
(Little A)
CHINA’S GREAT WALL OF DEBT
Dinny McMahon
(Mariner)
Hope In Times Of Fear
Timothy Keller
(Viking)
THE ASSASSINATION OF BRANGWAIN SPURGE
M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
(Candlewick)
Oh the Glory of It All
Sean Wilsey
(Penguin Books)
Man Of My Time
Dalia Sofer
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Chasing Hillary
Amy Chozick
(Harper)
In a Different Key
John Donvan and Caren Zucker
(Crown)
Parent Nation
Dana Suskind
(Dutton)
Superpower
Russell Gold
(Simon & Schuster)
WHAT’S GOOD
Peter Hoffman
(Abrams)
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
Alice Waters
(Penguin Press)
Building a Better Teacher
Elizabeth Green
(Norton)
COMING TO MY SENSES
Alice Waters
(Clarkson Potter)
HELPING CHILDREN SUCCEED
Paul Tough
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
EVERYBODY THOUGHT WE WERE CRAZY
Mark Rozzo
(Ecco)
THE DAUGHTERS OF YS
M.T. Anderson & Jo Rioux
(First Second)
The Make or Break Year
Emily Krone Phillips
(The New Press)
FANNY IN FRANCE
Alice Waters with Bob Carrau
(Viking)
WAIT TILL YOU SEE ME DANCE
Deb Olin Unferth
(Graywolf)
THE BROTHER YEARS
Shannon Burke
(Pantheon)
THE BIG PICTURE
Ben Fritz
(Eamon Dolan Books)
POUNDING THE ROCK
Marc Skelton
(Doubleday)
THE WILD BUNCH
W.K. Stratton
(Bloomsbury)
TICKER
Mimi Swartz
(Crown)
The Fall of Wisconsin
Dan Kaufman
(Norton)
PARIS WITHOUT HER
Gregory Curtis
(Knopf)
GARNER’S QUOTATIONS
Dwight Garner
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
THE OMEGA PRINCIPLE
Paul Greenberg
(Penguin Press)
Are We There Yet?
Dan Albert
(Norton)
OPENING WEDNESDAY AT A THEATER OR DRIVE-IN NEAR YOU
Charles Taylor
(Bloomsbury)
THE WHOLE LANGUAGE
Gregory Boyle
(Avid Reader)
GOOD TROUBLE
Joseph O'Neill
(Pantheon)
THE BLINDS
Adam Sternbergh
(Ecco)
GOD’S WISDOM FOR NAVIGATING LIFE
Timothy Keller
(Viking)
TO PIXAR AND BEYOND
Lawrence Levy
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
TITANS
Leila Meacham
(Grand Central Publishing)
CHINA’S GREAT WALL OF DEBT
Dinny McMahon
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
NOW AND AGAIN
Charlotte Rogan
(Reagan Arthur Books)
HERE’S THE CATCH
Ron Swoboda
(Thomas Dunne Books)
A FOR ANONYMOUS
David Kushner and Koren Shadmi
(Bold Type Books)
YVAIN
MT Anderson
(Candlewick)
GARDENISTA
Michelle Slatalla
(Artisan)
THE PRODIGAL PROPHET
Timothy Keller
(Viking)
THE PROBLEM OF ALZHEIMER’S
Jason Karlawish
(St. Martin's Press)
WHERE THE WATER GOES
David Owen
(Riverhead)
SWIMMER AMONG THE STARS
Kanishk Tharoor
(FSG)
THE MIDNIGHT WATCH
David Dyer
(St. Martin's Press)
THE TREES OF NORTH AMERICA
New York Botanical Garden
(Abbeville Press)
INFINITE HOPE
Anthony Graves
(Beacon Press)
I, PARROT
Deb Olin Unferth
(Black Balloon Publishing)
ATTENTION
Joshua Cohen
(Random House)
EVERYDAY STYLE
Lotta Jansdotter
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang)
THE INKBLOTS
Damion Searls
(Crown)
Win at Losing
Sam Weiman
(Tarcher Perigee)
AND THEN WE DANCED
Henry Alford
(Simon & Schuster)
MOVING KINGS
Joshua Cohen
(Random House)
THE SOULS OF YELLOW FOLK
Wesley Yang
(Norton)
THE CORRESPONDENCE
J.D. Daniels
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
BARKING TO THE CHOIR
Gregory Boyle
(Simon & Schuster)
Chelsea Market Makers
Michael Phillips
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang)
SOUL SURVIVOR
Jimmy McDonough
(Da Capo Press)
My Pantry
Alice Waters with Fanny Singer
(Pam Krauss Books)
The Dog
Joseph O’Neill
(Pantheon)
Little Victories
Jason Gay
(Doubleday)
The Songs of Jesus
Timothy Keller and Kathy Keller
(Viking)
Let Me Explain You
Annie Liontas
(Scribner)
The Best Team Money Can Buy
Molly Knight
(Simon & Schuster)
More Curious
Sean Wilsey
(McSweeney's)
Somerset
Leila Meacham
(Grand Central Publishing)
BE A PLAYER
Pia Nilsson and Lynn Marriott
(Atria Books)
American Catch
Paul Greenberg
(Penguin Press)
The Best Place To Be
Lesley Dormen
(Simon & Schuster)
THE INNER LIFE OF CATS
Thomas McNamee
(Hachette Books)
Cubed
Nikil Saval
(Doubleday)
Symphony for the City of the Dead
M.T. Anderson
(Candlewick)
Inventology
Pagan Kennedy
(Eamon Dolan Books)
Braving It
James Campbell
(Crown)
RISE OF THE DUNGEON MASTER
David Kushner and Koren Shadmi
(Nation Books)
Gamelife
Michael Clune
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Uproot
Jace Clayton
(FSG Originals)
The Hundred-Year Walk
Dawn Anahid MacKeen
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Tom Clynes
(Eamon Dolan Books)
LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND
MT Anderson
(Candlewick)
Future Sex
Emily Witt
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Bard of the Deal
Hart Seely
(Harper Paperbacks)
Alligator Candy
David Kushner
(Simon & Schuster)
Late to the Ball
Gerald Marzorati
(Scribner)
Lift
Daniel Kunitz
(Harper Wave)
The Fever of 1721
Stephen Coss
(Simon & Schuster)
Legends of Texas Barbecue
Robb WAlsh
(Chronicle)
Preaching
Timothy Keller
(Viking)
The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
(Ecco)
Tumbleweeds
Leila Meacham
(Grand Central Publishing)
Girls’ Poker Night
Jill A. Davis
(Random House)
The Sleeping Father
Matthew Sharpe
(Soft Skull Press)
The Second Child
Deborah Garrison
(Random House)
Gordon
Edith Templeton
(Pantheon)
Officer Friendly: and Other Stories
Lewis Robinson
(Random House)
Safelight
Shannon Burke
(Random House)
Approximately Heaven
James Whorton Jr.
(Free Press)
Lightning Rods
Helen DeWitt
(New Directions)
Poems of New York
Elizabeth Schmidt
(Everyman's Library)
Among Other Things, I’ve Taken Up Smoking
Aoibheann Sweeney
(Penguin Press)
A Map of Tulsa
Benjamin Lytal
(Penguin)
Near Enemy
Adam Sternbergh
(Crown)
Team Seven
Marcus Burke
(Doubleday)
Shovel Ready
Adam Sternbergh
(Crown)
The First Affair
Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
(Atria Books)
Into the Savage Country
Shannon Burke
(Pantheon)
Whatever It Takes
Paul Tough
(Houghton Mifflin)
Four Fish
Paul Greenberg
(Penguin Press)
DON’T RETIRE BROKE
Rick Rodgers
(Career Press)
40 Years of Chez Panisse
Alice Waters
(Clarkson Potter)
In the Green Kitchen
Alice Waters
(Clarkson Potter)
The Greatest Trade Ever
Gregory Zuckerman
(Broadway Books)
Spy: The Funny Years
George Kalogerakis, Kurt Andersen, and Graydon Carter
(Miramax)
New York Stories
New York Magazine
(Random House)
Tattoos on the Heart
Gregory Boyle
(Free Press)
Tour Tempo
John Novosel with John Garrity
(Doubleday)
Early Bird
Rodney Rothman
(Simon & Schuster)
The Power of Half
Kevin Salwen and Hannah Salwen
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Dishwasher
Pete Jordan
(HarperPerennial)
The Colony
John Tayman
(Scribner)
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Corinne May Botz
(Monacelli)
F5
Mark Levine
(Miramax)
The Prodigal God
Timothy Keller
(Dutton)
Pieces of Intelligence
Hart Seely
(Free Press)
The Final Frontiersman
James Campbell
(Atria)
The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup
Sean Wilsey and Matt Weiland
(HarperCollins)
The Ghost Mountain Boys
James Campbell
(Crown)
State by State
Sean Wilsey & Matt Weiland
(Ecco)
The First Man-Made Man
Pagan Kennedy
(Bloomsbury)
New York Look Book
New York Magazine
(Melcher Media)
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
Thomas McNamee
(Penguin Press)
Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor
Rick Marin
(Hyperion)
Big Bosoms and Square Jaws
Jimmy McDonough
(Crown)
Blood-Dark Track
Joseph O'Neill
(Vintage)
The Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook
Robb Walsh
(Broadway Books)
Power Failure
Mimi Swartz
(Doubleday)
The Cave Painters
Gregory Curtis
(Knopf)
Interstate 69
Matt Dellinger
(Scribner)
What the Dog Did
Emily Yoffe
(Bloomsbury)
Backyard Brawl
W.K. Stratton
(Crown)
Jet Age
Sam Howe Verhovek
(Avery)
The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight
Marc Weingarten
(Crown)
Lucky Bruce
Bruce Jay Friedman
(Biblioasis)
Fiction Ruined My Family
Jeanne Darst
(Riverhead)
The Smart Swarm
Peter Miller
(Avery)
Tammy Wynette
Jimmy McDonough
(Viking)
Heaven
Lisa Miller
(Harper)
Texas Eats
Robb Walsh
(Ten Speed Press)
Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?
Henry Alford
(Twelve)
Coming Home to Sicily
Fabrizia Lanza
(Sterling Epicure)
The Bet
Paul Sabin
(Yale University Press)
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat
Thomas McNamee
(Free Press)
In Season
Rob Patronite and Robin Raisfeld
(Blue Rider Press)
The Magical Stranger
Stephen Rodrick
(Harper)
Run, Brother, Run
David Berg
(Scribner)
The Boom
Russell Gold
(Simon & Schuster)
Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff
(Little, Brown and Company)
Extra Virgin
Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos
(Clarkson Potter)
Chelsea Market Cookbook
Michael Phillips with Rick Rodgers
(Stewart, Tabori & Chang)