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2021 Best Novel Awards
Booker Prize
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
An Island by Karen Jennings
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Promise by Damon Galgut (winner)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
China Room by Sunjeev Sahota
The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
An Island by Karen Jennings
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam
The Promise by Damon Galgut (winner)
Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Women's Prize For Fiction
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (winner)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (winner)
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2021 Best Book Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (winner)
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
Telephone by Percival Everett
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (winner)
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth by Daniel Mason
Telephone by Percival Everett
Authors who died in 2021
Donald Aamodt
Etel Adnan
C Dean Andersson
Lou Antonelli
Eve Babitz
Marie-Claire Blais
Beverly Cleary
Claudia Dain
Emma Darcy
Isla Dewar
Eric Jerome Dickey
Joan Didion
Lee Dunne
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
G M Ford
Diana G Gallagher
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Mo Hayder
Elizabeth Anne Hull
Keri Hulme
Samantha James
Siân James
Kate Jennings
Norton Juster
Marvin Kaye
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Dewey Lambdin
Christopher Lee
John Lutz
Joe McKinney
Larry McMurtry
Catherine MacPhail
Richard Marcinko
Margaret Maron
Jason Matthews
Jill Murphy
William F Nolan
Gary Paulsen
Sharon Kay Penman
Paul Reizin
Anne Rice
Lucinda Riley
Nawal El Saadawi
Don Sakers
L Neil Smith
Wilbur Smith
Michael M Thomas
Robert Thurston
Andrew Vachss
Judith Van Gieson
Barbara Whitnell
Jack Whyte
Janet Woods
Etel Adnan
C Dean Andersson
Lou Antonelli
Eve Babitz
Marie-Claire Blais
Beverly Cleary
Claudia Dain
Emma Darcy
Isla Dewar
Eric Jerome Dickey
Joan Didion
Lee Dunne
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
G M Ford
Diana G Gallagher
Kathleen Ann Goonan
Mo Hayder
Elizabeth Anne Hull
Keri Hulme
Samantha James
Siân James
Kate Jennings
Norton Juster
Marvin Kaye
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Dewey Lambdin
Christopher Lee
John Lutz
Joe McKinney
Larry McMurtry
Catherine MacPhail
Richard Marcinko
Margaret Maron
Jason Matthews
Jill Murphy
William F Nolan
Gary Paulsen
Sharon Kay Penman
Paul Reizin
Anne Rice
Lucinda Riley
Nawal El Saadawi
Don Sakers
L Neil Smith
Wilbur Smith
Michael M Thomas
Robert Thurston
Andrew Vachss
Judith Van Gieson
Barbara Whitnell
Jack Whyte
Janet Woods