Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
Published 2021
288 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2021
Literary criticism is writing about books and how they work. Studies of great authors, guides to movements and periods, close readings and essays on reading itself are all here. Useful for students, and rewarding for any reader who wants to go deeper into a favorite work. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.
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My Body
Emily Ratajkowski
Published 2021
256 pages
Как нам избежать климатической катастрофы. Решения, которые у нас есть. Прорывы, которые нам нужны
Bill Gates
Published 2021
336 pages
A Carnival of Snackery Diaries (2003-2020)
David Sedaris
Published 2021
566 pages
The Three Mothers How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Published 2021
272 pages
A Little Devil in America Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Published 2021
320 pages
Punch Me Up to the Gods A Memoir
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
Real Estate
Deborah Levy
Published 2021
296 pages
The Bright Ages A New History of Medieval Europe
Matthew Gabriele, David M. Perry
2021 · 2022 edition
336 pages
On Freedom Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
Published 2021
288 pages
Shelf Life Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Nadia Wassef
Published 2021
240 pages
All of the Marvels A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told
Douglas Wolk
Published 2021
384 pages
The Library
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen
Published 2021
528 pages
Women and Other Monsters Building a New Mythology
Jess Zimmerman
2021 · 2022 edition
224 pages
Everybody A Book about Freedom
Olivia Laing
Published 2021
272 pages
Craft in the Real World Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
Matthew Salesses
Published 2021
256 pages
Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
Gail Crowther
Published 2021
280 pages
The Hard Crowd Essays 2000-2020
Rachel Kushner
2021 · 2022 edition
288 pages
The Bookseller of Florence The Story of the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
Ross King
Published 2021
481 pages
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
Rodrigo García
Published 2021
157 pages
The Madman's Library The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
Edward Brooke-Hitching
Published 2021
256 pages
Love Is an Ex-Country A Memoir
Randa Jarrar
2021 · 2023 edition
240 pages
The Sinner and the Saint
Kevin Birmingham
Published 2021
432 pages
Book Nerd (gift book for readers)
Holly Maguire
Published 2021
112 pages