Tor.com Best Books of 2021
The reviewers at Tor.com have announced their top books for 2021. Titles and authors of genre interest include:
- The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
- Rule of Wolves, Leigh Bardugo (Imprint)
- The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry, C.M Waggoner (Ace)
- The Echo Wife, Sarah Gailey (Tor)
- The Heart-Break Bakery, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick)
- Squad, Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle (Greenwillow)
- Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki (Tor)
- No Gods, No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull (Blackstone)
- Jade Legacy, Fonda Lee (Orbit)
- The Actual Star, Monica Byrne (Harper Voyager)
- The Body Scout, Lincoln Michel (Orbit)
- Destroyer of Light, Jennifer Marie Brissett (Tor)
- A Psalm for the Wild Built, Becky Chambers (Tordotcom)
- Summer Sons, Lee Mandelo (Tordotcom)
- The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina, Zoraida Córdova (Atria)
- A Marvellous Light, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)
- The Absolute Book, Elizabeth Knox (Viking)
- Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead)
- Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr (Scribner)
- She Who Became the Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)
- Terminal Boredom, Izumi Suzuki (Verso)
- The Membranes, Chi Ta-Wei (Columbia University)
- Black Water Sister, Zen Cho (Ace)
- The Turnout, Megan Abbott (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
- How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters, Erica L. Satifka (Fairwood)
- Sword Stone Table, Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington, eds (Vintage)
- Analog / Virtual, Lavanya Lakshminarayan (Hachette India)
- City of the Uncommon Thief, Lynne Bertrand (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
- Burntcoat, Sarah Hall (Custom)
- Summer in the City of Roses, Michelle Ruiz Keil (Soho Teen)
- Reset, Sarina Dahlan (Blackstone)
- Shards of Earth, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Orbit)
For a full list, including honorable mentions, see their post.
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