The best books of 2021 they have already been listed on several lists (even we have our favorites!). Amazon editors, one more year have made a ranking with their favorites, just as they have been doing since 2000; let's not forget that the shopping giant started as a bookstore on-line!-.
More than 40 experts have given their opinion to keep a list of only ten copies, published in English and, on many occasions, also in Spanish. That means that you can either read it directly in the language of Cervantes, or you can be pretty sure that They will be a success as soon as they come out in our country... And it is even more than likely that some become a movie ! These are, in order, the chosen ones.
- The Lincoln Highway, love towles
The author of A Knight in Moscow (Salamandra Narrativa, 2016), has entered the coveted list of new york times best sellers . “Amor Towles could have written one of the best novels of this decade, delivering one of fiction's greatest gifts: hope. Her book is full of nostalgic 1950s, and the gentle ingenuity and mischief of those who are young, optimistic, and on a mission: The Lincoln Highway follows four children whose paths collide while searching for their mother and a stashed wad of money ”, write the editors.
two. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir, michelle zauner
“You'll laugh, you'll cry, your stomach will rumble with hunger and you'll be tapping your toes to the beat of this powerful story of mother and daughter and korean-american history showing how important it is to fully accept someone for who they are - and love them anyway," reads the editors' critique. This is the debut of Michelle Zauner, singer and guitarist of the musical project Japanese Breakfast, which is nothing more than an expansion of the essay of the same name that was published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2018.
3. The plotJean Hanff Korelitz
If you like thrillers, you'll like The Plot, "a story within a story that's a Rubik's cube of spins," according to Amazon editors. The book follows an uninspired author who fades into obscurity until his new book launches him to fame. Only the plot of it is not his, and someone knows it. “ Korelitz keeps us guessing, even when everything seems clear, until the knockout final”.
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Four. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith
Clint Smith's tour of places and landmarks related to slavery It's the kind of book can change your mind , according to Amazon editors. Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith takes the reader through a unforgettable tour of monuments and emblematic places, both those that are honest about the past and those that are not, offering an intergenerational story of how slavery has been instrumental in shaping the United States, of their collective history, and of Americans themselves. According to New York Times and Tim e (among other prestigious publications), he is also one of the ten best books of 2021.
5. the four winds, Kristina Hannah
"Texas, 1921. The Great War is over and America seems to be entering a new era of optimism and abundance. But for Elsa, considered too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman's only option , the future is uncertain. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. with his ruined reputation of hers, She is left with only one respectable option: to marry a man she barely knows."
Thus begins the synopsis of this book that has reached the number 1 of the New York Times , highly acclaimed by critics, and published in Spain by SUMA.
6. The empire of pain: The secret history of the dynasty that reigned in the pharmaceutical industry, Patrick Radden Keef
Another highly acclaimed volume of non-fiction, winner in addition to the Baillie Gifford Award, the most prestigious award in this category in the United Kingdom, has the history of the sackler dynasty , which adorns the walls of the most distinguished institutions: Harvard, the Metropolitan, Oxford, the Louvre... “It is one of the richest families in the world, benefactor of the arts and sciences. The origin of his heritage was always doubtful, until it came to light that they had multiplied it thanks to OxyContin , a powerful pain reliever that catalyzed the opioid crisis in the United States.”
Since 2017, Patrick Radden Keefe has investigated the Sackler dynasty secrets : complicated family relationships, money flows, their controversial corporate practices ... The result is a journalistic bomb chronicling the rise and fall of one of the great American families and their obscure health emporium.
7. Harlem Shuffle, Colson Whitehead
Colson Whitehead is an American writer who has received twice Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , something very unusual: in 2017 for the novel The Underground Railroad, and in 2020 for The Nickel Boys. Now he's back with a "tremendously entertaining" novel according to Amazon editors, which takes place in a beautiful new york city recreated in the early 1960s. It is a family saga disguised as a police novel , an amusing moralistic play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to harlem.
8. Great CircleMaggie Shipstead
“Maggie Shipstead has achieved the impossible: an epic novel that is ambitious, literary, yet completely accessible . Great Circle follows two women who yearn for adventure and freedom: the aviator Marian Graves and the star Hadley Baxter, and just as it was to fly, this story is also 'the emotion of the century'", Amazon editors detail about this book set in the early 20s.
9. Hail Mary Project, Andy Weir
The new novel by the author of the martian will also be made into a movie - like Ridley Scott's Mars was - this time, starring and produced by Ryan Gosling. In his account, “ Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate mission. It is the last chance and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Of course, at the moment, he doesn't know. He can't even remember his own name , much less the nature of his mission or how to carry it out, ”reads the synopsis of the volume.
10. Clara and the sunKazuo Ishiguro
"The quiet, emotional and moving novel of Ishiguro on a robot girl with artificial intelligence, designed as a playmate for real children, is a story that will captivate and haunt readers”, Amazon editors say about Kazuo Ishiguro's long-awaited novel after winning the Nobel Prize, a science fiction story that explores what makes us human.
