The NYTimes just published its 100 best books of 2021; I'm generally not in sync with the Times book critics, so here are the titles I'd add to that list......
Fiction
"Early Morning Riser" (Heiny)
"The Dark Hours" (Connelly)
"1979" (McDermid)
"Lightning Strike" (Krueger)
"Morningside Heights" (Henkin)
Non-fiction
"Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story" (Brown)
"What about the Baby" (McDermott)
"What Happened to Paula" (Dykstra)
"Baggage" (Cumming)
"Dusk Night Dawn" (Lamott)
I haven't read Ann Patchett's new essays yet (the book was just released today) -- but I have a good feeling about that endeavor. "A great writer riffs on family, marriage, work" -- This is usually a winning formula for me.
Just some thoughts.
P.S. I loved that James Lapine made the cut! His oral history of "Sunday in the Park" was a surprise and a delight.
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