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Best Books of 2021

ThriftBooks's Best

Literature

Children's

Teen & YA

Romance

Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Nonfiction

Best Books of 2020

Book Riot's Best of 2021

ThriftBooks's Best

Literature

Children's

Teen & YA

Romance

Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Nonfiction

Best Books of 2020

Book Riot's Best of 2021

Literature

from $6.39

from $5.69

from $4.09

from $4.69

Afterparties: Stories

Anthony Veasna So

from $5.79

The Sentence: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

from $6.69

The Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles

from $4.99

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

from $6.99

Bewilderment

Richard Powers

from $4.39

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney

from $5.19

Children's

Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 16)

Jeff Kinney

from $6.19

Milo Imagines the World

Matt de la Peña

from $5.89

The Beatryce Prophecy

from $7.19

from $10.09

from $6.79

from $4.19

Amari and the Night Brothers

B.B. Alston

from $5.09

Stuntboy, in the Meantime

Jason Reynolds

from $5.29

Teen & YA

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

from $13.71

A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger

from $12.59

Iron Widow

Xiran Jay Zhao

from $7.09

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

from $4.99

The Mary Shelley Club

Goldy Moldavsky

from $4.89

Chain of Iron

Cassandra Clare

from $11.19

Somewhere Between Bitter and Sweet

Laekan Zea Kemp

from $4.19

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

from $5.79

from $5.99

from $7.09

Romance

It Happened One Summer

Tessa Bailey

from $6.99

A Lot Like Adios

Alexis Daria

from $4.69

People We Meet on Vacation

from $5.59

from $4.69

from $14.83

from $7.99

from $5.69

from $3.59

from $4.09

from $14.29

Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories

Mariana Enríquez

from $14.83

Mrs. March

Virginia Feito

from $4.29

The Last Thing He Told Me

Laura Dave

from $5.09

The Madness of Crowds

Louise Penny

from $5.49

A Line To Kill

Anthony Horowitz

from $5.29

This Thing Between Us: A Novel

from $15.84

from $4.59

from $6.19

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

from $6.29

from $17.84

from $7.09

Light from Uncommon Stars

from $9.59

from $10.29

from $16.79

from $7.29

from $10.99

Under the Whispering Door

T.J. Klune

from $11.79

The Last Graduate

Naomi Novik

from $11.99

Nonfiction

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

from $10.99

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

from $9.49

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Alison Bechdel

from $10.39

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

from $7.19

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

from $6.89

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

Adam M. Grant

from $10.49

Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C. Ford

from $4.09

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

from $15.84

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion

from $8.19

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

Malcolm Gladwell

from $4.29

Book Riot's Best of 2021

The Rib King

Ladee Hubbard

from: $4.69

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Malinda Lo

from: $4.99

The Girls I've Been

Tess Sharpe

from: $8.29

Boys Run the Riot Omnibus, Vol. 2

Keito Gaku

from: $6.09

The Collective

Alison Gaylin

from: $4.49

Reprieve

James Han Mattson

from: $5.29

It Happened One Summer

Tessa Bailey

from: $6.99

The Sum of Us

Heather McGhee

from: $8.59

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

from: $9.49

Hello, Star

Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic

from: $4.29

Dial A for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto

from: $5.79

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

from: $6.29

The Postscript Murders

Elly Griffiths

from: $5.89

Perfect Black

Crystal Wilkinson

from: $17.10

The Love Hypothesis

Ali Hazelwood

from: $6.59

She Who Became the Sun

Shelley Parker-Chan

from: $16.47

The People We Keep

Allison Larkin

from: $7.69

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward

from: $15.43

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr.

from: $4.09

A Lot Like Adios

Alexis Daria

from: $4.69

The Crystal Kingdom

Justin McElroy

from: $17.44

Yearbook

Seth Rogen

from: $5.39

Cultish

Amanda Montell

from: $22.91

Amari and the Night Brothers

B.B. Alston

from: $5.09

Afterparties: Stories

Anthony Veasna So

from: $5.79

The Way She Feels

Courtney Cook

from: $8.19

Arsenic and Adobo

Mia P. Manansala

from: $7.29

American Betiya

Anuradha D. Rajurkar

from: $2.99

Jenny Mei Is Sad

Tracy Subisak

from: $5.69

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Mariame Kaba

from: $10.19

Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

Nedra Glover Tawwab

from: $17.29

Winter's Orbit

Everina Maxwell

from: $5.89

A Master of Djinn

P. Djèlí Clark

from: $10.29

The Heart Principle

Helen Hoang

from: $4.69

The Wrong End of the Telescope

Rabih Alameddine

from: $5.89

Best Laid Plans

Roan Parrish

from: $4.09

Mary Jane

Jessica Anya Blau

from: $6.39

How to Find a Princess

Alyssa Cole

from: $4.19

With this year finally coming to a close, let's look back at the best books of the year so that you can stock up on what you missed. Check out the best literature, Children's books, Teen & YA, Romance, Mystery & Suspense, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, and Nonfiction books of 2021.

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