The most popular writers & writing books of 2021

Books about writers are about the strange business of making stories. Novelists with writer's block, poets in love, ghostwriters with secrets and authors who are not what they seem fill these pages. You will find novels, memoirs and reflections on the writing life itself. This list shows the ones first published in 2021.

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Oh William!
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Oh William!

Elizabeth Strout

2021 · 2022 edition

256 pages

Intimacies
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Intimacies

Katie Kitamura

Published 2021

227 pages

Notes on Grief
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Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 奇玛曼达·恩戈兹·阿迪契

Published 2021

96 pages

Girlhood
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Girlhood

Melissa Febos

2021 · 2022 edition

336 pages

Left on Tenth
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Left on Tenth

Delia Ephron

2021 · 2022 edition

304 pages

Reunion Beach
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Reunion Beach

Elin Hilderbrand, Adriana Trigiani, Cassandra King, Mary Alice Monroe, Patti Callahan Henry, Marjory Wentworth, Nathalie Dupree

Published 2021

392 pages

Manifesto
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Manifesto

Bernardine Evaristo

2021 · 2022 edition

198 pages

Poet Warrior
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Poet Warrior

Joy Harjo

Published 2021

240 pages

Ladyparts
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Ladyparts

Deborah Copaken

Published 2021

460 pages