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Best Literary Fiction Books of 2021

The literary landscape is set for a revolution in 2022. Established greats like Hanya Yanagihara and Lily King are returning with acclaimed new fiction; eagerly-anticipated To Paradise and Five Tuesdays in Winter are both releasing in the first half of 2022. But alongside award-winners are fresh faces, with debuts from a variety of original and exciting writers. Maddie Mortimer's much-adored Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is the debut that no one can stop talking about, and nothing else has captured the exactness of our collective social moment more acutely than Vladimir by Julia May Jonas.
Read on for our curated list of the most exciting literary fiction coming in 2022, the best literary books of 2021, and our all-time literary must-reads.
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Devotion (Hannah Kent)
Devotion (Hannah Kent)
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Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield)
Our Wives Under the Sea (Julia Armfield)
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Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter (Lizzie Pook)
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter (Lizzie Pook)
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The Midwife (Tricia Cresswell)
The Midwife (Tricia Cresswell)
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Five Tuesdays in Winter (Lily King)
Five Tuesdays in Winter (Lily King)
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A Time Outside This Time (Amitava Kumar)
A Time Outside This Time (Amitava Kumar)
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To Paradise (Hanya Yanagihara)
To Paradise (Hanya Yanagihara)
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Luster (Raven Leilani)
Luster (Raven Leilani)
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Maddie Mortimer)
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies (Maddie Mortimer)
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The Office of Historical Corrections (Danielle Evans)
The Office of Historical Corrections (Danielle Evans)
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The War of the Poor (Eric Vuillard)
The War of the Poor (Eric Vuillard)
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A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
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The Fell (Sarah Moss)
The Fell (Sarah Moss)
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The Cat Who Saved Books (Sōsuke Natsukawa)
The Cat Who Saved Books (Sōsuke Natsukawa)
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Paradise (Kae Tempest)
Paradise (Kae Tempest)
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Heaven (Mieko Kawakami)
Heaven (Mieko Kawakami)
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What Strange Paradise (Omar El Akkad)
What Strange Paradise (Omar El Akkad)
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Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)
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Yours Cheerfully (A.J. Pearce)
Yours Cheerfully (A.J. Pearce)
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The Painter's Friend (Howard Cunnell)
The Painter's Friend (Howard Cunnell)
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The Lamplighters (Emma Stonex)
The Lamplighters (Emma Stonex)
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Circus of Wonders (Elizabeth Macneal)
Circus of Wonders (Elizabeth Macneal)
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Brood (Jackie Polzin)
Brood (Jackie Polzin)
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Of Women and Salt (Gabriela Garcia)
Of Women and Salt (Gabriela Garcia)
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The Melting (Lize Spit)
The Melting (Lize Spit)
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Catch the Rabbit (Lana Bastašić)
Catch the Rabbit (Lana Bastašić)
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Kololo Hill (Neema Shah)
Kololo Hill (Neema Shah)
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Mother for Dinner (Shalom Auslander)
Mother for Dinner (Shalom Auslander)
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The Most Precious of Cargoes (Jean-Claude Grumberg)
The Most Precious of Cargoes (Jean-Claude Grumberg)
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Nightshift (Kiare Ladner)
Nightshift (Kiare Ladner)
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The Art of Losing (Alice Zeniter)
The Art of Losing (Alice Zeniter)
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The Strays of Paris (Jane Smiley)
The Strays of Paris (Jane Smiley)
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Jack & Bet (Sarah Butler)
Jack & Bet (Sarah Butler)
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Cleanness (Garth Greenwell)
Cleanness (Garth Greenwell)
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Amnesty (Aravind Adiga)
Amnesty (Aravind Adiga)
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Little Bandaged Days (Kyra Wilder)
Little Bandaged Days (Kyra Wilder)
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Writers & Lovers (Lily King)
Writers & Lovers (Lily King)
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The Hiding Game (Naomi Wood)
The Hiding Game (Naomi Wood)
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
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Breasts and Eggs (Mieko Kawakami)
Breasts and Eggs (Mieko Kawakami)
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