2021 in literature

|+New adult fiction, sorted by author's last name

!Author

!Title

!Date of Pub.

!Ref.

|{{Sort|Passage North|A Passage North}}

|{{Date table sorting|July 13}}

|{{Cite web|last1=Laurence|first1=Rebecca|last2=Baker|first2=Lindsay|date=2021-12-22|title=The best books of the year 2021|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210409-the-best-books-of-2021-so-far|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-27|website=BBC|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412234744/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210409-the-best-books-of-2021-so-far |archive-date=2021-04-12 }}

|Razorblade Tears

|{{Date table sorting|July 6}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/s-cosby/razorblade-tears/ |title=RAZORBLADE TEARS {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|Second Place

|{{Date table sorting|May 4}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rachel-cusk/second-place/ |title=SECOND PLACE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|Unsettled Ground

|{{Date table sorting|March 25}}

|{{Cite web|title=Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners announced|url=https://costanewsroom.vuelio.co.uk/press/press-releases/a657bbca-30fd-4330-81e0-3976bcc4a5ba/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced|access-date=2022-01-05|website=Costa|archive-date=2022-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220105031313/https://costanewsroom.vuelio.co.uk/press/press-releases/a657bbca-30fd-4330-81e0-3976bcc4a5ba/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced|url-status=live}}

|{{Sort|Promise|The Promise}}

|{{Date table sorting|May }}

|{{Cite book|last=Galgut|first=Damon|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1261301351|title=The promise|date=2021|isbn=978-1-4152-1058-1|edition=First|location=Cape Town, South Africa|oclc=1261301351|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031856/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1261301351|url-status=live}}

|Matrix

|{{Date table sorting|September 7}}

|{{Cite book|last=Groff|first=Lauren|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1224045534|title=Matrix|date=2021|isbn=978-1-59463-449-9|location=New York|oclc=1224045534|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031857/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1224045534|url-status=live}}

|Abundance

|{{Date table sorting|March 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=Guanzon|first=Jakob|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1228510918|title=Abundance : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-1-64445-046-8|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|oclc=1228510918}}

|{{Sort|Sweetness of Water|The Sweetness of Water}}

|{{Date table sorting|June 15}}

|{{Cite book|last=Harris|first=Nathan|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1256670246|title=The sweetness of water|date=2021|isbn=978-0-316-46126-9|location=New York|oclc=1256670246|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031948/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1256670246|url-status=live}}

|The Other Black Girl

|{{Date table sorting|June 1}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/zakiya-dalila-harris/the-other-black-girl/ |title=THE OTHER BLACK GIRL {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|Klara and the Sun

|{{Date table sorting|March 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=Ishiguro|first=Kazuo|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1156592519|title=Klara and the sun|date=2021|isbn=978-0-7352-8125-7|location=Toronto|oclc=1156592519|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031903/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1156592519|url-status=live}}

|My Heart Is a Chainsaw

|{{Date table sorting|August 31}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/stephen-graham-jones/my-heart-is-a-chainsaw/ |title=MY HEART IS A CHAINSAW {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|You Love Me

|{{Date table sorting|April 6}}

|{{Cite book|last=Kepnes|first=Caroline|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1183400406|title=You love me|date=2021|isbn=978-0-593-13378-1|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1183400406|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031903/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1183400406|url-status=live}}

|Billy Summers

|{{Date table sorting|August 3}}

|{{Cite book|last=King|first=Stephen|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1233024105|title=Billy Summers : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-1-9821-7361-6|edition=First Scribner hardcover|location=New York|oclc=1233024105|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031917/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1233024105|url-status=live}}

|Later

|{{Date table sorting|March 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=King|first=Stephen|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237818427|title=Later|date=2021|isbn=978-1-78909-649-1|edition=First Hard Case Crime|location=London|oclc=1237818427|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031903/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1237818427|url-status=live}}

|Silverview

|{{Date table sorting|October}} 12

|{{Cite book|last=Le Carré|first=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1268939528|title=Silverview|date=2021|isbn=978-0-593-49059-4|location=[New York, New York]|oclc=1268939528|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031914/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1268939528|url-status=live}}

|Gunk Baby

|April 28

|{{Cite web |last=Fry |first=Declan |date=2021-04-22 |title=Gunk Baby by Jamie Marina Lau review – a dystopic portrait of post-industrial alienation |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/23/gunk-baby-by-jamie-marina-lau-review-a-dystopic-portrait-of-post-industrial-alienation |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=The Guardian}}

|No One Is Talking About This

|{{Date table sorting|February 16}}

|{{Cite book|last=Lockwood|first=Patricia|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1155693813|title=No one is talking about this|date=2021|isbn=978-0-593-18958-0|location=New York|oclc=1155693813|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2022-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221071244/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1155693813|url-status=live}}

|{{Sort|Fortune Men|The Fortune Men}}

|{{Date table sorting|May 27}}

|{{Cite book|last=Mohamed|first=Nadifa|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1199330473|title=The fortune men|date=2021|isbn=978-0-241-46694-0|location=London|oclc=1199330473}}

|How to Survive Everything

|March 1

|{{Cite web |title=How to Survive Everything |url=https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/how-to-survive-everything/ |access-date=2022-12-22 |website=BookMarks}}

|Hell of a Book

|{{Date table sorting|June 28}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jason-mott/hell-of-a-book/ |title=HELL OF A BOOK {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|Open Water

|{{Date table sorting|February 4}}

|{{ISBN|9780241448779}}. {{cite news|first=Alison|last=Flood|title=Caleb Azumah Nelson wins Costa first novel award for Open Water|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/04/caleb-azumah-nelson-wins-costa-first-novel-award-for-open-water|date=2022-01-04|accessdate=2022-01-05|archive-date=2022-01-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104194440/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/04/caleb-azumah-nelson-wins-costa-first-novel-award-for-open-water|url-status=live}}

|{{Sort|Committed|The Committed}}

|{{Date table sorting|March 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=Nguyen|first=Viet Thanh|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1224586967|title=The committed|date=2021|isbn=978-0-8021-5706-5|edition=First|location=New York, NY|oclc=1224586967}}

|Outlawed

|{{Date table sorting|January 5}}

|{{Cite book|last=North|first=Anna|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151062688|title=Outlawed : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-1-63557-542-2|location=New York|oclc=1151062688|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2022-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110064728/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1151062688|url-status=live}}

|Remote Control

|{{Date table sorting|January 19}}

|{{Cite book|last=Okorafor|first=Nnedi|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1191457705|title=Remote control|publisher=A Tom Doherty Associates Book|year=2021|isbn=978-1-250-77280-0|edition=1st|location=New York|language=en|oclc=1191457705}}

|Peaces

|{{Date table sorting|April 6}}

|{{Cite book|last=Oyeyemi|first=Helen|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1160196790|title=Peaces : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-0-7352-4127-5|location=Toronto, Ontario|oclc=1160196790|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031921/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1160196790|url-status=live}}

|Fake Accounts

|{{Date table sorting|February 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=Oyler|first=Lauren|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1226440551|title=Fake accounts : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-1-948226-93-6|location=New York|oclc=1226440551|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031941/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1226440551|url-status=live}}

|Gods and Ends

|{{Date table sorting|March 22}}

|{{Cite book|last=Pereira|first=Lindsay|title=Gods and Ends|publisher=Penguin Random House India|year=2021|isbn=9789390914463|location=India|language=English}}

|Bewilderment

|{{Date table sorting|September 21}}

|{{Cite book|last=Powers|first=Richard|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1268950933|title=Bewilderment : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-0-393-88115-8|edition=First|location=New York, NY|oclc=1268950933|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031902/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1268950933|url-status=live}}

|Beautiful World, Where Are You

|{{Date table sorting|September 7}}

|{{Cite book|last=Rooney|first=Sally|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237762358|title=Beautiful world, where are you|date=2021|isbn=978-0-7352-8180-6|location=Toronto|oclc=1237762358}}

|La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

|{{Date table sorting|August 19}}

|{{Cite book|last=Sarr|first=Mohamed Mbougar|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1269504870|title=La plus secrète mémoire des hommes : roman|publisher=Philippe Rey|year=2021|isbn=978-2-84876-886-1|location=Paris|oclc=1269504870}}

|Great Circle

|{{Date table sorting|May 4}}

|{{Cite book|last=Shipstead|first=Maggie|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1154075263|title=Great circle|date=2021|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|isbn=978-0-525-65697-5|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1154075263}}

|Nick

|{{Date table sorting|January 5}}

|{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Michael F.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1228119058|title=Nick|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|others=F. Scott (Francis Scott) Prequel to : Fitzgerald|year=2021|isbn=978-0-316-52976-1|edition=First|location=New York, NY|oclc=1228119058}}

|Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

|{{Date table sorting|September 28}}

|{{Cite book|last=Soyinka|first=Wole|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1238132759|title=Chronicles from the land of the happiest people on earth|date=2020|isbn=978-0-593-32016-7|edition=First American|location=New York|oclc=1238132759}}

|Light Perpetual

|{{Date table sorting|May 18}}

|{{Cite book|last=Spufford|first=Francis|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250268972|title=Light perpetual : a novel|date=2021|isbn=978-1-9821-7414-9|edition=First Scribner hardcover|location=New York, NY|oclc=1250268972}}

|Oh William!

|{{Date table sorting|October 19}}

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|Harlem Shuffle

|{{Date table sorting|September 14}}

|{{Cite book|last=Whitehead|first=Colson|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1198988746|title=Harlem shuffle|date=2021|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|isbn=978-0-385-54513-6|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1198988746|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031958/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1198988746|url-status=live}}

|Harrow

|{{Date table sorting|September 14}}

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joy-williams/harrow-williams/ |title=HARROW {{!}} Kirkus Reviews |language=en}}

|+New books for children and young adults, sorted by date of publication

!Author

!Title

!Date of Pub.

!Ref.

|Eyes That Kiss in the Corners

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|January 5}}

|{{Cite book|last=Ho|first=Joanne|title=Eyes That Kiss in the Corners|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1235819829|date=2021|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-062-91562-7|oclc=1235819829|access-date=2022-03-06|archive-date=2022-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306195928/https://www.worldcat.org/title/eyes-that-kiss-in-the-corners-release-date-jan-5-2021/oclc/1235819829|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-13 |title=Eyes That Kiss in the Corners |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-ho/eyes-that-kiss-in-the-corners/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2022-03-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306194800/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joanna-ho/eyes-that-kiss-in-the-corners/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|The|Magical Reality of Nadia|link=}}

|{{cite web |date=2020-12-15 |title=THE MAGICAL REALITY OF NADIA |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bassem-youssef/the-magical-reality-of-nadia/ |accessdate=2021-06-25 |publisher=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2021-06-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625191254/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/bassem-youssef/the-magical-reality-of-nadia/ |url-status=live }} - Review is for the January 1, 2021 issue.

|Mel Fell

| rowspan="3" |{{Date table sorting|February 2}}

|{{cite web |title=MEL FELL |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/corey-r-tabor/mel-fell/ |access-date=February 17, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217195744/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/corey-r-tabor/mel-fell/ |url-status=live }}

|Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

|{{cite web |title=UNSPEAKABLE |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carole-boston-weatherford/unspeakable-weatherford/ |access-date=February 7, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en-us |archive-date=February 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207024419/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carole-boston-weatherford/unspeakable-weatherford/ |url-status=live }}

|What Big Teeth

|{{Cite book|last=Szabo|first=Rose|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1159839519|title=What big teeth|date=2021|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)|others=Inc Recorded Books|isbn=978-0-374-31431-6|location=New York|oclc=1159839519}}

|Firefly

|{{Date table sorting|February 6}}

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|Firekeeper's Daughter

|{{Date table sorting|March 16}}

|{{Cite web |date=December 10, 2020 |title=Firekeeper's Daughter |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/angeline-boulley/firekeepers-daughter/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 20, 2021 |website=Kirkus |archive-date=December 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220224200/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/angeline-boulley/firekeepers-daughter/ }}

|Something's Wrong!: A Bear, a Hare, and Some Underwear

|{{Date table sorting|March 23}}

|{{Cite book|last=John|first=Jory|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141022362|title=Something's wrong! : a bear, a hare, and some underwear|date=2021|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|others=Erin Kraan|isbn=978-0-374-31388-3|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1141022362|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031904/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1141022362|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |date=December 25, 2020 |title=Something's Wrong |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jory-john/somethings-wrong/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 5, 2021 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=December 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206012144/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jory-john/somethings-wrong/ }}

|Johnny the Walrus

|{{Date table sorting|March 29}}

|{{Cite web |last=Wakefield |first=Lily |date=2021-12-09 |title=Amazon lists hateful, transphobic book as number one 'LGBT+ best seller' |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/amazon-trans-johnny-walrus-matt-walsh-lgbt/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=PinkNews |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607210149/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/12/09/amazon-trans-johnny-walrus-matt-walsh-lgbt/ }}

|Watercress

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|March 30}}

|{{Cite web |date=2020-12-25 |title=Watercress |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-wang/watercress/ |access-date=2022-01-30 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2022-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131022713/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/andrea-wang/watercress/ |url-status=live }}

|Wonder Walkers

|{{cite web |title=Wonder Walkers |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/micha-archer/wonder-walkers/ |access-date=February 25, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=February 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225183124/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/micha-archer/wonder-walkers/ |url-status=live }}

|Aru Shah and the City of Gold

|{{Date table sorting|April 6}}

|{{Cite web |date=March 16, 2021 |title=Aru Shah and the City of Gold |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/roshani-chokshi/aru-shah-and-the-city-of-gold/ |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2023-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230219194148/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/roshani-chokshi/aru-shah-and-the-city-of-gold/ |url-status=live }}

|Victories Greater Than Death

|{{Date table sorting|April 13}}

|{{Cite web|last=Wagner|first=Wendy|date=2021-04-15|title=Book Review: Victories Greater Than Death, by Charlie Jane Anders|url=https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/book-review-victories-greater-than-death-by-charlie-jane-anders/|access-date=2023-02-19|work=Lightspeed Magazine|language=en-US}}

|Too Bright to See

|{{Date table sorting|April 20}}

|{{cite web |title=Too Bright to See |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kyle-lukoff/too-bright-to-see/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215024824/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kyle-lukoff/too-bright-to-see/ |archive-date=December 15, 2021 |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}

|Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

|{{Date table sorting|May 4}}

|{{cite web |title=HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A FLOWER? |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shawn-harris/have-you-ever-seen-a-flower/ |access-date=February 3, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=February 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203131818/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/shawn-harris/have-you-ever-seen-a-flower/ |url-status=live }}

|Jo Jo Makoons

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|May 11}}

|{{Cite web |date=February 9, 2021 |title=Jo Jo Makoons |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dawn-quigley/jo-jo-makoons/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-10-22 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2021-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023002550/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dawn-quigley/jo-jo-makoons/ }}

|Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You

|{{Cite web |date=April 7, 2021 |title=Stamped (for kids) |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sonja-cherry-paul/stamped-for-kids/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-09-15 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2021-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916013623/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sonja-cherry-paul/stamped-for-kids/ }}

|Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|May 25}}

|{{cite web |title=Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adiba-jaigirdar/hani-and-ishus-guide-to-fake-dating/ |access-date=19 March 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=19 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319232632/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adiba-jaigirdar/hani-and-ishus-guide-to-fake-dating/ |url-status=live }}

|Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea

|{{cite web |title=Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-53545-8 |access-date=March 16, 2022 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=August 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806004549/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-53545-8 |url-status=live }}

|Ace of Spades

|{{Date table sorting|June 1}}

|{{Cite book|last=Àbíké-Íyímídé|first=Faridah|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1252628595|title=Ace of spades|date=2021|publisher=Feiwel & Friends|isbn=978-1-250-80082-4|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1252628595}}

|{{Sortname|The|Bench|link=The Bench (book)}}

|{{Date table sorting|June 8

}}

|{{Cite book|last=Meghan|first=Duchess of Sussex|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1250319260|title=The bench|date=2021|others=Christian Robinson|isbn=978-0-7352-7217-0|location=Toronto|oclc=1250319260}}

|Frankenslime

|{{Date table sorting|July 13}}

|{{Cite web |title=Frankenslime on Publishers Weekly |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-76580-2 |access-date=2021-08-19 |website=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=2021-08-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210819210102/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-76580-2 |url-status=live }}

|Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms

|{{Date table sorting|August 10}}

|{{cite web |title=Cheer Up! |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/crystal-frasier/cheer-up/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220317/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/crystal-frasier/cheer-up/ |archive-date=2022-03-17 |access-date=March 17, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}{{cbignore}}

|Me (Moth)

|{{Date table sorting|August 17}}

|{{Cite web |last=Marshall |first=Melanie |date=July 2021 |title=Me (Moth) |url=https://www.booklistonline.com/Me-Moth-/pid=9748913 |access-date=2022-02-09 |website=Booklist |archive-date=2022-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220209171606/https://www.booklistonline.com/Me-Moth-/pid=9748913 |url-status=live }}

|Redemptor

|{{Date table sorting|August 27}}

|{{Cite web |last=Obaro |first=Farrah Penn, Shyla Watson, Kirby Beaton, Margaret Kingsbury, Tomi |title=BuzzFeed's Best Books Of August 2021 |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/buzzfeeds-best-books-of-august-2021 |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=BuzzFeed |date=5 August 2021 |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213224704/https://www.buzzfeed.com/farrahpenn/buzzfeeds-best-books-of-august-2021 |url-status=live }}

|Three Lines in a Circle

|August 31

|{{Cite book |last=Long |first=Michael G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7k8_EAAAQBAJ |title=Three Lines in a Circle: The Exciting Life of the Peace Symbol |date=2021-08-31 |publisher=Presbyterian Publishing Corp |isbn=978-1-64698-196-0 |language=en}}

|Beasts of Prey

|{{Date table sorting|September 28}}

|{{Cite book|last=Gray|first=Ayana|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1229028609|title=Beasts of prey|date=2021|isbn=978-0-593-40568-0|location=New York|oclc=1229028609|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031905/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1229028609|url-status=live}}

|Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

| rowspan="3" |{{Date table sorting|October 12}}

|{{Cite web |title=Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/benjamin-alire-saenz/aristotle-and-dante-dive-into-the-waters-of-the-wo/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011154237/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/benjamin-alire-saenz/aristotle-and-dante-dive-into-the-waters-of-the-wo/ |archive-date=2021-10-11 |access-date=2021-12-21 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}

|{{Sortname|The|Christmas Pig}}

|

|{{Sortname|The|Last Cuentista|link=}}

|{{Cite web |date=2021-06-21 |title=The Last Cuentista |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/donna-barba-higuera/the-last-cuentista/ |access-date=2022-01-31 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2022-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131150601/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/donna-barba-higuera/the-last-cuentista/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|The|Sour Cherry Tree|link=}}

|{{Date table sorting|October 15}}

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|{{Sortname|The|Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve|link=}}

|{{Date table sorting|October 19}}

|{{Cite web |date=2021-09-15 |title=The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/eoin-colfer/fowl-twins-get-what-they-deserve/ |url-status=live |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=2022-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226163256/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/eoin-colfer/fowl-twins-get-what-they-deserve/ }}

|Daughter of the Deep

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|October 26}}

|{{Cite web |date=September 15, 2021 |title=Daughter of the Deep |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rick-riordan/daughter-of-the-deep/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009071845/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/rick-riordan/daughter-of-the-deep/ |archive-date=October 9, 2021 |access-date=2021-12-20 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}

|Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot

|{{Cite book|last=Kinney|first=Jeff|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1257945051|title=Big Shot|date=2021|publisher=Puffin Australia|isbn=978-0-14-379611-4|location=Camberwell, VIC|oclc=1257945051|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031904/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1257945051|url-status=live}}

|{{sortname|A |Psalm of Storms and Silence}}

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|November 2}}

|{{Cite web |last=SteveDunk |date=2021-11-04 |title=Everything Is Canon: A Psalm Of Storms And Silence |url=https://www.cinelinx.com/off-beat/shows/everything-is-canon-a-psalm-of-storms-and-silence/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Cinelinx {{!}} Movies. Games. Geek Culture. |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220207224539/https://www.cinelinx.com/off-beat/shows/everything-is-canon-a-psalm-of-storms-and-silence/ |url-status=live }}

|Skin of the Sea

|{{Cite web |last=Tor.com |date=2021-02-24 |title=A Mermaid Takes on the Gods in Natasha Bowen's Skin of the Sea |url=https://www.tor.com/2021/02/24/cover-reveals-skin-of-the-sea-natasha-bowen/ |access-date=2022-03-06 |website=Tor.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220312214525/https://www.tor.com/2021/02/24/cover-reveals-skin-of-the-sea-natasha-bowen/ |url-status=live }}

|Himawari House

|{{Date table sorting|November 9}}

|{{cite news |date=July 13, 2021 |title=Himawari House |language=en |work=Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harmony-becker/himawari-house/ |access-date=October 29, 2022 |archive-date=November 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103172356/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/harmony-becker/himawari-house/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|The|1619 Project: Born on the Water|link=}}

| rowspan="2" |{{Date table sorting|November 16}}

|{{cite news |last1=Schaub |first1=Michael |date=April 13, 2021 |title=The 1619 Project Adapted for Two Books This Fall |language=en |work=Kirkus Reviews |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-1619-project-adapted-for-two-books-this-fall/ |access-date=November 8, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109163444/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/the-1619-project-adapted-for-two-books-this-fall/ |url-status=live }}

|Love, Violet

|{{cite web |title=Love, Violet |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charlotte-sullivan-wild/love-violet/ |access-date=March 18, 2022 |website=Kirkus Reviews |archive-date=October 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020045136/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/charlotte-sullivan-wild/love-violet/ |url-status=live }}

|What Is Love?

|{{Date table sorting|December 28}}

|{{cite web |title=WHAT IS LOVE? |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mac-barnett/what-is-love/ |access-date=November 15, 2021 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=November 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115204248/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/mac-barnett/what-is-love/ |url-status=live }}

|+New poetry books, sorted by date of publication

!Author

!Title

!Date of pub.

!Ref.

|{{Sortname|The|Hill We Climb: Poems|link=The Hill We Climb}}

|{{Date table sorting|March 30}}, US

|

|{{Sortname|The|Kids|link=The Kids (book)}}

|{{Date table sorting|September 16}}, US

|

|Call Us What We Carry

|{{Date table sorting|December 7}}, US

|

|+New nonfiction books, sorted by date of publication

!Author

!Title

!Date of pub.

!Ref.

|Let Me Tell You What I Mean

|{{Date table sorting|January 26}}

|{{cite book |last1=Didion |first1=Joan |title=Let Me Tell You What I Mean |date=2021 |publisher=Alfred A. Knopf |location=New York |isbn=978-0593318485}}

|Under a White Sky

|{{Date table sorting|February 9}}

|{{Cite book|last=Kolbert|first=Elizabeth|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1204267264|title=Under a white sky : the nature of the future|publisher=Crown|year=2021|isbn=978-0-593-13627-0|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1204267264|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031911/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1204267264|url-status=live}}

|The Sum of Us

|February 9

|{{Cite book |last=McGhee |first=Heather |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6m7cDwAAQBAJ |title=The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together |date=2021-02-16 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-525-50957-8 |language=en}}

|How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

|{{Date table sorting|February 16}}

|{{Cite book|last=Gates|first=Bill|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129441930|title=How to avoid a climate disaster : the solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need|date=2021|isbn=978-0-7352-8045-8|location=Toronto|oclc=1129441930}}

|Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

|{{Date table sorting|March 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=Peterson|first=Jordan B.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1223041181|title=Beyond order : 12 more rules for life|date=2021|isbn=978-0-7352-7834-9|location=Toronto|oclc=1223041181}}

|The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't

|{{Date table sorting|April 13}}

|{{cite web |title=The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555240/the-scout-mindset-by-julia-galef/ |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |access-date=3 March 2023}}

|Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

|{{Date table sorting|April 13}}

|{{Cite book|last=Keefe|first=Patrick Radden|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1231720151|title=Empire of pain|date=2021|isbn=978-0-385-69755-2|location=Toronto|oclc=1231720151}}

|The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

|{{Date table sorting|June 1}}

|{{Cite book|last=Issenberg|first=Sasha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJQsEAAAQBAJ|title=The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage|date=June 2021|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-5247-4873-9|language=en|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221031904/https://books.google.com/books?id=eJQsEAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid

|{{Date table sorting|June 8}}

|{{Cite web |title=The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright: 9780593320723 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678999/the-plague-year-by-lawrence-wright/ |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107060004/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/678999/the-plague-year-by-lawrence-wright/ |url-status=live }}

|Why We Kneel, How We Rise

|{{Date table sorting|June 24}}

|{{Cite book|last=Holding|first=Michael|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1255226412|title=Why We Kneel, How We Rise|date=2021|isbn=978-1-3985-0325-0|location=London|oclc=1255226412}}

|The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

|{{Date table sorting|July 13}}

|{{Cite book|last=Kean|first=Sam|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1260213251|title=The icepick surgeon : murder, fraud, sabotage, piracy, and other dastardly deeds perpetrated in the name of science|date=2021|publisher=Little, Brown & Company|isbn=978-0-316-49652-0|edition=First|location=New York|oclc=1260213251}}

|The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty

|September 23

|{{Cite web |date=2022-09-24 |title=The Tudors in Love: Passion and Politics in the Age of England's Most Famous Dynasty |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-gristwood/the-tudors-in-love/ |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=Kirkus Reviews}}

|World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next One

|October 5

|{{Cite book |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/World-War-C/Sanjay-Gupta/9781982166106 |title=World War C |date=2021-10-05 |isbn=978-1-9821-6610-6 |language=en |last1=Gupta |first1=Sanjay |last2=Loberg |first2=Kristin |publisher=Simon and Schuster |access-date=2022-06-18 |archive-date=2022-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624123715/https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/World-War-C/Sanjay-Gupta/9781982166106 |url-status=live }}

|The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

|{{Date table sorting|November 2}}

|{{Cite book|last=McCartney|first=Paul|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1245249385|title=The lyrics : 1956 to the present|date=2021|publisher=Liveright|others=Paul Muldoon|isbn=978-1-63149-256-3|edition=First|location=New York, NY|oclc=1245249385}}

|The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: The Transgender Trial That Threatened to Upend the British Establishment

|{{Date table sorting|November 11}}

|{{Cite book|last=Playdon|first=Zoe-Jane|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1286357892|title=The hidden case of Ewan Forbes : the transgender trial that threatened to upend the British establishment|date=2021|isbn=978-1-5266-1913-6|location=London|oclc=1286357892}}

|Atlas of the Heart

|{{Date table sorting|November 30}}

|{{Cite web |title=Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Goodreads Choice Awards! |url=https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2022 |access-date=2022-12-09 |website=Goodreads |archive-date=2022-12-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221209022412/https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2022 |url-status=live }}

|+New biographies and memoirs, sorted by last name

!Author

!Title

!Date of pub.

!Ref.

|Philip Roth: The Biography

|{{Date table sorting|May 26}}

|{{Cite book|last=Bailey|first=Blake|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1253033305|title=Philip Roth : the biography|date=2021|publisher=Skyhorse|isbn=978-1-5107-6973-1|edition=First paperback|location=New York|oclc=1253033305|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221032406/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1253033305|url-status=live}}

|Beautiful Things

|{{Date table sorting|April 6}}

|{{Cite book|last=Biden|first=Robert Hunter|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237604218|title=Beautiful things : a memoir|date=2021|publisher=Gallery Books|isbn=978-1-9821-5111-9|edition=First Gallery Books hardcover|location=New York, NY|oclc=1237604218|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2022-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114231235/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1237604218|url-status=live}}

|Punch Me Up to the Gods

|{{Date table sorting| May 18}}

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|The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

|{{Date table sorting|March 9}}

|{{Cite book|last=Isaacson|first=Walter|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1249759243|title=The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race|date=2021|isbn=978-1-3985-0231-4|location=London|oclc=1249759243|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221032428/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1249759243|url-status=live}}

|Rememberings

|{{Date table sorting|June 1}}

|{{Cite book|last=O'Connor|first=Sinéad|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1228912710|title=Rememberings|date=2021|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-358-42388-1|location=Boston|oclc=1228912710|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221032443/https://www.worldcat.org/title/1228912710|url-status=live}}

|Aftershocks: A Memoir

|{{Date table sorting|January 12}}

|{{Cite book|last=Owusu|first=Nadia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iI0TEAAAQBAJ|title=Aftershocks: A Memoir|date=2021-01-12|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-9821-1122-9|language=en|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221032419/https://books.google.com/books?id=iI0TEAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|Crying in H Mart

|{{Date table sorting|April 20}}

|{{Cite book|last=Zauner|first=Michelle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRjzDwAAQBAJ|title=Crying in H Mart: A Memoir|date=2021-04-20|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-525-65775-0|language=en|access-date=2021-12-26|archive-date=2023-02-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230221032412/https://books.google.com/books?id=kRjzDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|+Deaths sorted by date of death

!Individual

!Background

!Date of Death

!Age

!Cause of Death

!Ref.

|Daughter of Margaret Mead, American author and anthropologist

|{{Date table sorting|January 2}}

|81

|Brain damage

|{{Cite news|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=2021-01-14|title=Mary Catherine Bateson Dies at 81; Anthropologist on Lives of Women|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/books/mary-catherine-bateson-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206133936/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/books/mary-catherine-bateson-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American novelist

|{{Date table sorting|January 3}}

|59

|Cancer

|{{Cite web|last=Frazier|first=Charise|date=2021-01-05|title=Beloved, Best-Selling Author Eric Jerome Dickey Dies At 59|url=https://newsone.com/4072997/author-eric-jerome-dickey-dies-at-59/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-26|website=NewsOne|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105191315/https://newsone.com/4072997/author-eric-jerome-dickey-dies-at-59/ |archive-date=2021-01-05 }}

|American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author

|{{Date table sorting|January 7}}

|84

|Complications from Parkinson's disease

|{{cite web|title=Obituary: Neil Sheehan, fearless war correspondent who had huge exclusive with the Pentagon Papers|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/19070008.obituary-neil-sheehan-fearless-war-correspondent-huge-exclusive-pentagon-papers/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210226063131/https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/19070008.obituary-neil-sheehan-fearless-war-correspondent-huge-exclusive-pentagon-papers/|archive-date=26 February 2021|access-date=3 November 2021|website=HeraldScotland|date=5 February 2021 |language=en}}

|J. K. Rowling's literary agent

|{{Date table sorting|January 7}}

|79

|Cancer

|{{Cite web|title=Agent Christopher Little dies, aged 79 {{!}} The Bookseller|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/agent-christopher-little-dies-aged-79-1232522|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-26|website=The Bookseller|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111095458/https://www.thebookseller.com/news/agent-christopher-little-dies-aged-79-1232522 |archive-date=2021-01-11 }}{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-01-27|title=Christopher Little, Who Built an Empire Around a Boy Wizard, Dies at 79|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/books/christopher-little-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053823/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/books/christopher-little-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|MacArthur Fellow, New Yorker writer, influential mentor,{{Cite web|date=2021-02-04|title=Obstinate Love: In Memory of the Great Ved Mehta|url=https://lithub.com/obstinate-love-in-memory-of-the-great-ved-mehta/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053821/https://lithub.com/obstinate-love-in-memory-of-the-great-ved-mehta/|url-status=live}} and chronicler of India

|{{Date table sorting|January 9}}

|87

|Complications from Parkinson's disease

|{{Cite news|last=Fox|first=Margalit|date=2021-01-10|title=Ved Mehta, Writer Who Illuminated India, Is Dead at 86|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/obituaries/ved-mehta-celebrated-writer-for-the-new-yorker-dies-at-86.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110213005/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/obituaries/ved-mehta-celebrated-writer-for-the-new-yorker-dies-at-86.html|url-status=live}}

|Greek-born French writer and translator

|{{Date table sorting|January 11}}

|77

|

|{{cite web|title=Littérature : disparition de Vassilis Alexakis, le plus français des écrivains grecs|url=https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Vassilis-Alexakis-le-plus-francais-des-ecrivains-grecs-est-mort|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113213748/https://www.courrierdesbalkans.fr/Vassilis-Alexakis-le-plus-francais-des-ecrivains-grecs-est-mort|archive-date=13 January 2021|access-date=14 January 2021|website=Le Courrier des Balkans|date=11 January 2021 |language=fr}}

|American historian and novelist

|{{Date table sorting|January 22}}

|75

|Pneumonia

|{{cite web|author=Clay Risen|date=January 29, 2021|title=Sharon Kay Penman, whose novels plumbed Britain's past, dies at 75|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/books/sharon-kay-penman-dead.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210206101743/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/books/sharon-kay-penman-dead.html|archive-date=February 6, 2021|access-date=February 5, 2021|website=New York Times}}

|Mexican poet

|{{Date table sorting|January 23}}

|92

|COVID-19

|{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

|Swedish playwright, novelist and poet

|{{Date table sorting|January 26}}

|77

|COVID-19

|{{Cite news|last=Radio|first=Sveriges|date=26 January 2021|title=Dramatikern Lars Norén död - Kulturnytt i P1|newspaper=Sveriges Radio|url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/lars-noren-dod|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126181605/https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/lars-noren-dod|archive-date=2021-01-26}}

|American cookbook editor

|{{Date table sorting|February 6}}

|79

|Heart disease

|{{Cite news|last=Moskin|first=Julia|date=2021-02-11|title=Maria Guarnaschelli, Book Editor Who Changed What We Cook, Dies at 79|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/dining/maria-guarnaschelli-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053822/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/dining/maria-guarnaschelli-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|French novelist, screenwriter and actor

|{{Date table sorting|February 8}}

|89

|

|{{cite news|date=9 February 2021|title=Jean-Claude Carrière, screenwriter of Cyrano de Bergerac and Belle de Jour, dies aged 89|newspaper=The Guardian|agency=Agence France-Presse|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/09/jean-claude-carriere-writer-of-cyrano-de-bergerac-and-belle-de-jour-dies-aged-89|url-status=live|access-date=9 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210209110650/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/09/jean-claude-carriere-writer-of-cyrano-de-bergerac-and-belle-de-jour-dies-aged-89|archive-date=9 February 2021}}

|American essayist and cultural critic

|{{Date table sorting|February 19}}

|59

|

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-02-27|title=Lawrence Otis Graham, 59, Dies; Explored Race and Class in Black America|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/lawrence-otis-graham-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053823/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/27/us/lawrence-otis-graham-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American beat poet, publisher, and co-founder of City Lights Bookstore

|{{Date table sorting|February 22}}

|101

|Interstitial lung disease

|{{Cite web|date=2021-02-26|title=Thank You, Lawrence Ferlinghetti|url=https://lithub.com/thank-you-lawrence-ferlinghetti/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053832/https://lithub.com/thank-you-lawrence-ferlinghetti/|url-status=live}}

|Mexican writer and philosopher

|{{Date table sorting|March 5}}

|92

|

|[https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/03/05/cultura/fallece-el-pensador-poeta-y-activista-enrique-gonzalez-rojo-arthur/ Fallece el pensador, poeta y activista Enrique González Rojo Arthur] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310021014/https://www.jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/03/05/cultura/fallece-el-pensador-poeta-y-activista-enrique-gonzalez-rojo-arthur/|date=2021-03-10}} {{in lang|es}}

|Indian poet

|{{Date table sorting|March 6}}

|84

|

|{{Cite web|title=Noted Kannada poet and Sahitya Akademi awardee NS Lakshminarayana Bhatta passes away at 84|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/noted-kannada-poet-and-sahitya-akademi-awardee-ns-lakshminarayana-bhatta-passes-away-at/728859|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310024716/https://www.timesnownews.com/amp/india/article/noted-kannada-poet-and-sahitya-akademi-awardee-ns-lakshminarayana-bhatta-passes-away-at/728859|archive-date=2021-03-10|access-date=2021-03-11}}

|Russian literary critic and writer

|{{Date table sorting|March 6}}

|81

|

|[https://pln-pskov.ru/society/407485.html В Пскове скончался член Союза писателей России Валентин Курбатов] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310184434/https://pln-pskov.ru/society/407485.html|date=2021-03-10}} {{in lang|ru}}

|Guinean writer and historian

|{{Date table sorting|March 8}}

|89

|COVID-19

|{{Cite web|last=Ragusa|first=di Stefania|title=Addio allo storico Djibril Tamsir Niane {{pipe}} Rivista Africa|date=9 March 2021|url=https://www.africarivista.it/addio-allo-storicoo-djibril-tamsir-niane/182022/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002155546/https://www.africarivista.it/addio-allo-storicoo-djibril-tamsir-niane/182022/|archive-date=2021-10-02|access-date=2021-11-25|language=it-IT}}

|American writer

|{{Date table sorting|March 8}}

|91

|Complication from a stroke

|{{Cite web|date=2021-03-09|title=Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, has died at 91.|url=https://lithub.com/norton-juster-author-of-the-phantom-tollbooth-has-died-at-91/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053853/https://lithub.com/norton-juster-author-of-the-phantom-tollbooth-has-died-at-91/|url-status=live}}

|American poet and children's book author and illustrator

|{{Date table sorting|March 9}}

|95

|Heart failure

|{{Cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2021-03-30|title=Joan Walsh Anglund, 95, Dies; Her Children's Books Touched Millions|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/books/joan-walsh-anglund-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053823/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/books/joan-walsh-anglund-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American historian

|{{Date table sorting|March 10}}

|91

|Complication from a stroke

|{{Cite news|last=Dixler|first=Elsa|date=2021-09-01|title=Robert Middlekauff, Historian of Washington and His War, Dies at 91|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/robert-middlekauff-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053821/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/books/robert-middlekauff-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Egyptian feminist and writer

|{{Date table sorting|March 21}}

|89

|

|{{Cite web|date=21 March 2021|title=Pioneering Egyptian Feminist Nawal El Saadawi Dies Aged 89|url=https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/03/21/pioneering-egyptian-feminist-nawal-el-saadawi-dies-aged-89/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323081231/https://egyptianstreets.com/2021/03/21/pioneering-egyptian-feminist-nawal-el-saadawi-dies-aged-89/|archive-date=2021-03-23|access-date=2021-03-22}}

|Polish poet

|{{Date table sorting|March 21}}

|75

|

|{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=2021-03-24|title=Adam Zagajewski, Poet of the Past's Presence, Dies at 75|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/adam-zagajewski-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203041719/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/24/books/adam-zagajewski-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American literary critic and cultural historian

|{{Date table sorting|March 24}}

|81

|Complications from Parkinson's disease

|{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=2021-03-26|title=Morris Dickstein, Critic and Cultural Historian, Dies at 81|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/morris-dickstein-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053825/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/morris-dickstein-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Children's book writer

|{{Date table sorting|March 25}}

|104

|

|{{Cite web|date=2021-03-27|title=Beverly Cleary, beloved creator of Ramona Quimby, has died at the age of 104.|url=https://lithub.com/beverly-clearly-beloved-creator-of-ramona-quimby-has-died-at-the-age-of-104/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053832/https://lithub.com/beverly-clearly-beloved-creator-of-ramona-quimby-has-died-at-the-age-of-104/|url-status=live}}

|American novelist

|{{Date table sorting|March 25}}

|84

|

|{{Cite web|date=2021-03-26|title=Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove author (and sly American existentialist), dies at 84.|url=https://lithub.com/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-author-and-sly-american-existentialist-dies-at-84/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053843/https://lithub.com/larry-mcmurtry-lonesome-dove-author-and-sly-american-existentialist-dies-at-84/|url-status=live}}

|Founder of Tyrant Books

|{{Date table sorting|March 30}}

|47

|

|{{Cite news|last=Vadukul|first=Alex|date=2021-04-15|title=Giancarlo DiTrapano, Defiantly Independent Book Publisher, Dies at 47|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/books/giancarlo-ditrapano-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053821/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/books/giancarlo-ditrapano-dead.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Maher {{!}}|first=John|title=Giancarlo DiTrapano, Tyrant Books Founder, Dies at 47|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/85985-giancarlo-ditrapano-tyrant-books-founder-dies-at-47.html|access-date=2021-12-26|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053823/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/85985-giancarlo-ditrapano-tyrant-books-founder-dies-at-47.html|url-status=live}}

|American playwright

|{{Date table sorting|April 2}}

|83

|

|{{Cite web|date=3 April 2021|title=Arthur Kopit Dies: Pulitizer-Nominated 'Indians', 'Nine' Playwright Was 83|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/arthur-kopit-dead-obituary-broadway-playwright-indians-nine-was-83-1234727115/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505141321/https://deadline.com/2021/04/arthur-kopit-dead-obituary-broadway-playwright-indians-nine-was-83-1234727115/|archive-date=2021-05-05|access-date=2021-09-17}}

|Irish academic and literary critic

|{{Date table sorting|April 6}}

|92

|

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-04-17|title=Denis Donoghue, Humanist Literary Critic, Dies at 92|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/books/denis-donoghue-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053829/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/books/denis-donoghue-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Saved the New York Public Library

|{{Date table sorting|April 15}}

|87

|

|{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=2021-04-16|title=Vartan Gregorian, Savior of the New York Public Library, Dies at 87|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/nyregion/vartan-gregorian-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211217221509/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/nyregion/vartan-gregorian-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|English poet and editor

|{{Date table sorting|April 22}}

|90

|

|{{Cite news|title=Anthony Thwaite obituary|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/anthony-thwaite-62v2b9sdc|url-status=live|access-date=2021-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503065220/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anthony-thwaite-62v2b9sdc|archive-date=2021-05-03}}{{subscription required}}

|Belgian writer

|{{Date table sorting|May 2}}

|68

|

|{{Cite web|title=Succesauteur Pieter Aspe overleden|url=https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20210501_97142266|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210502185349/https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20210501_97142266|archive-date=2021-05-02|access-date=2021-11-25|website=De Standaard|date=May 2021 |language=nl-BE}}

|Spanish poet

|{{Date table sorting|May 2}}

|85

|

|{{Cite web|date=2021-05-02|title=Fallece el poeta zamorano Jesús Hilario Tundidor a los 85 años|url=https://www.abc.es/espana/castilla-leon/abci-fallece-poeta-zamorano-jesus-hilario-tundidor-85-anos-202105021842_noticia.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210503181551/https://www.abc.es/espana/castilla-leon/abci-fallece-poeta-zamorano-jesus-hilario-tundidor-85-anos-202105021842_noticia.html|archive-date=2021-05-03|access-date=2021-11-25|website=abc|language=es}}

|Journalist and memoirist, first women to win a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting

|{{Date table sorting|May 5}}

|74

|

|{{Cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2021-05-06|title=Lucinda Franks Dies at 74; Prize-Winning Journalist Broke Molds|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/media/lucinda-franks-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-05-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506170925/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/media/lucinda-franks-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Japanese manga artist

|{{Date table sorting|May 6}}

|54

|Acute aortic dissection

|{{Cite news|last=Traub|first=Alex|date=2021-05-25|title=Kentaro Miura, Creator of Epic Manga 'Berserk,' Dies at 54|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/arts/kentaro-miura-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-05-26|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210526030634/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/arts/kentaro-miura-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American children's book writer and illustrator

|{{Date table sorting|May 23}}

|91

|Kidney failure

|{{Cite web|date=2021-05-27|title=Eric Carle, author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has died at 91.|url=https://lithub.com/eric-carle-author-and-illustrator-of-the-very-hungry-caterpillar-has-died-at-91/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053832/https://lithub.com/eric-carle-author-and-illustrator-of-the-very-hungry-caterpillar-has-died-at-91/|url-status=live}}

|Editorial director of Pantheon Books

|{{Date table sorting|May 24}}

|67

|

|{{Cite news|last=Traub|first=Alex|date=2021-06-02|title=Dan Frank, Adventurous Book Editor, Is Dead at 67|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/books/dan-frank-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226055333/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/books/dan-frank-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Austrian poet and writer

|{{Date table sorting|June 4}}

|96

|

|{{Cite news|last=Goldmann|first=A. J.|date=2021-06-04|title=Friederike Mayröcker, Grande Dame in German Literature, Dies at 96|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/books/friederike-mayrocker-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226055337/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/books/friederike-mayrocker-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Turned Scholastic into a major children's book publisher

|{{Date table sorting|June 5}}

|84

|

|{{Cite news|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=2021-06-07|title=Richard Robinson Dies at 84; Turned Scholastic Into an Empire|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/books/richard-robinson-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053831/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/07/books/richard-robinson-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American journalist, biographer, and writer for The New Yorker

|{{Date table sorting|June 16}}

|86

|Lung cancer

|{{Cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2021-06-17|title=Janet Malcolm, Provocative Journalist With a Piercing Eye, Dies at 86|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/business/media/janet-malcolm-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226000143/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/business/media/janet-malcolm-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

|{{Date table sorting|June 24}}

|82

|Complications from Parkinson's disease

|{{Cite news|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=2021-06-25|title=Stephen Dunn, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 82|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629110037/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/books/stephen-dunn-poet-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American author who jumpstarted the Chicana movement

|{{Date table sorting|June 29}}

|95

|

|{{Cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2021-06-29|title=Elizabeth Martínez, Voice of the Chicana Movement, Dies at 95|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/us/elizabeth-martinez-voice-of-the-chicana-movement-dies-at-95.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053827/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/us/elizabeth-martinez-voice-of-the-chicana-movement-dies-at-95.html|url-status=live}}

|American historian

|{{Date table sorting|July 3}}

|84

|Pneumonia

|{{Cite news|last=Sandomir|first=Richard|date=2021-07-10|title=Athan Theoharis, Chronicler of F.B.I. Abuses, Dies at 84|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/politics/athan-theoharis-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053827/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/10/us/politics/athan-theoharis-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Italian novelist, critic, scholar, and publisher

|{{Date table sorting|July 28}}

|80

|

|{{Cite news|last=Alter|first=Alexandra|date=2021-07-30|title=Roberto Calasso, Renaissance Man of Letters, Dies at 80|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/books/roberto-calasso-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053825/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/30/books/roberto-calasso-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Jamaican dub poet and storyteller

|{{Date table sorting|August 4}}

|65

|Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

|{{Cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2021-08-25|title=Jean Breeze, First Woman of Dub Poetry, Dies at 65|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/arts/jean-breeze-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053829/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/arts/jean-breeze-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American historian

|{{Date table sorting|August 6}}

|89

|

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-08-13|title=Donald Kagan, Leading Historian of Ancient Greece, Dies at 89|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/books/donald-kagan-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813233006/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/books/donald-kagan-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|British children's author and illustrator

|{{Date table sorting|August 18}}

|72

|Cancer

|{{cite news|last=Strzyżyńska|first=Weronika|date=20 August 2021|title=Jill Murphy, children's author and illustrator, dies aged 72|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/jill-murphy-childrens-author-and-illustrator-dies-aged-72|url-status=live|access-date=17 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917003559/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/20/jill-murphy-childrens-author-and-illustrator-dies-aged-72|archive-date=17 September 2021}}

|American sociologist and author

|{{Date table sorting|August 19}}

|79

|Bladder cancer

|{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=2021-08-20|title=James W. Loewen, Who Challenged How History Is Taught, Dies at 79|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/books/james-w-loewen-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226055334/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/books/james-w-loewen-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American adventure writer

|{{Date table sorting|August 20}}

|78

|

|{{Cite news|last=Branch|first=John|date=2021-08-25|title=David Roberts, Who Turned Adventure Writing Into Art, Dies at 78|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/sports/david-roberts-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053827/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/sports/david-roberts-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American writer and editor

|{{Date table sorting|September 12}}

|52

|

|{{Cite news|title=Russ Kick, writer, editor and 'rogue transparency activist,' dies at 52|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/russ-kick-dead/2021/09/24/e3bbad52-1d41-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=2022-01-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220113163908/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/russ-kick-dead/2021/09/24/e3bbad52-1d41-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html|url-status=live}}

|American philosopher

|{{Date table sorting|September 20}}

|70

|Cancer

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-09-27|title=Charles W. Mills, Philosopher of Race and Liberalism, Dies at 70|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/charles-w-mills-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-11-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120202158/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/27/us/charles-w-mills-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Japanese manga artist

|{{Date table sorting|September 24}}

|84

|Pancreatic cancer

|{{Cite news|last1=Dooley|first1=Ben|last2=Ueno|first2=Hisako|date=2021-10-01|title=Takao Saito, 84, Dies; Created a Japanese Comic Book Superstar|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/media/takao-saito-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053825/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/business/media/takao-saito-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American author

|{{Date table sorting|October 13}}

|82

|Cardiac arrest

|{{Cite web|date=2021-10-14|title=Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet, has died at 82.|url=https://lithub.com/gary-paulsen-author-of-hatchet-has-died-at-82/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053843/https://lithub.com/gary-paulsen-author-of-hatchet-has-died-at-82/|url-status=live}}

|Irish language scholar and poet

|{{Date table sorting|October 16}}

|99

|

|{{Cite news|title=Celebrated poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi dies aged 99|newspaper=The Irish Times|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/celebrated-poet-m%C3%A1ire-mhac-an-tsaoi-dies-aged-99-1.4702845|access-date=2022-04-15|archive-date=2021-11-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129062201/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/celebrated-poet-m%C3%A1ire-mhac-an-tsaoi-dies-aged-99-1.4702845|url-status=live}}

|Irish poet

|{{Date table sorting|October 17}}

|85

|

|{{Cite web|title=President leads tributes to poet Brendan Kennelly|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/1017/1254272-brendan-kennelly/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017200928/https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1254272/|archive-date=2021-10-17|access-date=2021-10-17}}

|American children's book writer and illustrator

|{{Date table sorting|October 20}}

|81

|Heart attack

|{{Cite news|last=Genzlinger|first=Neil|date=2021-10-21|title=Jerry Pinkney, Acclaimed Children's Book Illustrator, Dies at 81|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/jerry-pinkney-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226073101/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/books/jerry-pinkney-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Cuban poet

|{{Date table sorting|November 6}}

|75

|

|{{Cite web|date=2021-11-06|title=Raúl Rivero, Cuban poet and journalist dissident of Castroism, dies in Miami|url=https://marketresearchtelecast.com/raul-rivero-cuban-poet-and-journalist-dissident-of-castroism-dies-in-miami/196367/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106175443/https://marketresearchtelecast.com/raul-rivero-cuban-poet-and-journalist-dissident-of-castroism-dies-in-miami/196367/|archive-date=2021-11-06|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Market Research Telecast|language=en-US}}

|French literary critic and founder of Semiotexte(e)

|{{Date table sorting|November 8}}

|83

|

|{{Cite news|last=Traub|first=Alex|date=2021-11-22|title=Sylvère Lotringer, Shape-Shifting Force of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 83|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/sylvere-lotringer-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211204213803/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/sylvere-lotringer-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Japanese feminist writer

|{{Date table sorting|November 9}}

|99

|Heart failure

|{{Cite news|last1=Rich|first1=Motoko|last2=Inoue|first2=Makiko|date=2021-11-26|title=Jakucho Setouchi, 99, Dies; Buddhist Priest Wrote of Sex and Love|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/asia/jakucho-setouchi-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220054820/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/world/asia/jakucho-setouchi-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American book editor

|{{Date table sorting|November 13}}

|46

|Pulmonary embolism

|{{Cite news|last=Vigdor|first=Neil|date=2021-11-14|title=Petra Mayer, Books Editor for NPR and 'Resident Nerd,' Dies at 46|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/us/npr-petra-mayer-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-11-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211114184710/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/us/npr-petra-mayer-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Lebanese-American novelist

|{{Date table sorting|November 14}}

|96

|

|{{Cite news|last=Asfour|first=Nana|date=2021-11-14|title=Etel Adnan, Lebanese American Author and Artist, Dies at 96|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/obituaries/etel-adnan-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2022-01-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106143725/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/14/obituaries/etel-adnan-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American poet, translator, and author

|{{Date table sorting|November 21}}

|96

|Complications of Alzheimer's disease

|{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=2021-11-22|title=Robert Bly, Poet Who Gave Rise to a Men's Movement, Dies at 94|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/robert-bly-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-11-24|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211124162853/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/books/robert-bly-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Spanish novelist

|{{Date table sorting|November 21}}

|94

|Cancer

|{{Cite news|last=Minder|first=Raphael|date=2021-12-03|title=Almudena Grandes, Novelist of Spain's Marginalized, Dies at 61|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/almudena-grandes-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226055339/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/almudena-grandes-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American crime writer

|{{Date table sorting|November 23}}

|79

|Coronary artery disease

|{{Cite web|last=Schaub|first=Michael|date=2022-01-17|title=Crime Writer Andrew Vachss Has Died at 79|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/crime-writer-andrew-vachss-has-died-at-79/|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-18|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117172946/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/crime-writer-andrew-vachss-has-died-at-79/ |archive-date=2022-01-17 }}

|Canadian writer

|{{Date table sorting|November 30}}

|82

|

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-12-07|title=Marie-Claire Blais, Acclaimed French Canadian Novelist, Dies at 82|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/books/marie-claire-blais-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211223071620/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/books/marie-claire-blais-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|Czech adventurer, travel writer and film director

|{{Date table sorting|December 1}}

|102

|

|{{cite news|title=Zemřel Miroslav Zikmund. Slavnému českému cestovateli bylo 102 let|trans-title=Miroslav Zigmund has died. The famous Czech traveller was 102 years old|url=https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/umrti-cestovatel-miroslav-zikmund_2112021117_voj|language=Czech|work=iRozhlas|location=Prague|date=2 December 2021|accessdate=9 December 2021|archive-date=2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202214258/https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/umrti-cestovatel-miroslav-zikmund_2112021117_voj|url-status=live}}

|American journalist and cultural critic

|{{Date table sorting|December 7}}

|64

|

|{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-12-08|title=Greg Tate, Influential Black Cultural Critic, Dies at 64|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/greg-tate-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-15|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211215163222/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/arts/music/greg-tate-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|American author

|{{Date table sorting|December 12}}

|80

|Complications from a stroke

|{{Cite web|date=2021-12-13|title=Anne Rice, the Queen of Gothic Literature, has died at the age of 80.|url=https://lithub.com/anne-rice-the-queen-of-gothic-literature-has-died-at-the-age-of-80/|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Literary Hub|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226053843/https://lithub.com/anne-rice-the-queen-of-gothic-literature-has-died-at-the-age-of-80/|url-status=live}}

|American author and feminist

|{{Date table sorting|December 15}}

|69

|Kidney failure

|{{Cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bell-hooks-death-cause-b1976825.html |title=bell hooks death: Celebrated author and feminist dies, aged 69 |website=Independent.co.uk |date=16 December 2021 |access-date=2021-12-16 |archive-date=2021-12-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211216011639/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/bell-hooks-death-cause-b1976825.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=2021-12-15|title=bell hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, Dies at 69|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/bell-hooks-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215211938/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/bell-hooks-dead.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|last=Knight|first=Lucy|date=2021-12-15|title=bell hooks, author and activist, dies aged 69|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/15/bell-hooks-author-and-activist-dies-aged-69|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-26|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211215184243/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/15/bell-hooks-author-and-activist-dies-aged-69 |archive-date=2021-12-15 }}

|Indian journalist, novelist, art critic, and reviewer of Hindi literature

|{{Date table sorting|December 19}}

|79

|Cardiac arrest

|{{Cite web|date=2021-12-21|title=Fiction writer, art critic Madhur Kapila passes away|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/fiction-writer-art-critic-madhur-kapila-passes-away-101640028868724.html|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=2021-12-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221014619/https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/fiction-writer-art-critic-madhur-kapila-passes-away-101640028868724.html|url-status=live}}

|Belizean writer and activist

|{{Date table sorting|December 21}}

|75

|Complications from a stroke

|{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-12-21|title=Myrna Manzanares, author and cultural activist, dies at age 75|url=https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2021/12/21/myrna-manzanares-author-and-cultural-activist-dies-at-age-75/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-12-26|website=Belize News and Opinion|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211221130145/https://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2021/12/21/myrna-manzanares-author-and-cultural-activist-dies-at-age-75/ |archive-date=2021-12-21 }}

|American author and memoirist

|{{Date table sorting|December 23}}

|87

|Complications from Parkinson's disease

|{{Cite news|last=Grimes|first=William|date=2021-12-23|title=Joan Didion, 'New Journalist' Who Explored Culture and Chaos, Dies at 87|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html|access-date=2021-12-26|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229042305/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/books/joan-didion-dead.html|url-status=live}}

|New Zealand writer (The Bone People) and poet

|{{Date table sorting|December 25}}

|74

|Chronic medical issues

|{{Cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-literary-giant-keri-hulme-dies|title=NZ literary giant Keri Hulme dies|date=28 December 2021|access-date=28 December 2021|archive-date=28 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211228192658/https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nz-literary-giant-keri-hulme-dies|url-status=live}}

|+2021 literary award winners, sorted alphabetically by award

!Award

!Category

!Author

!Title

!Ref.

|{{Sortname|link=Li Kotomi|first=Kotomi|last=Li}}

|Higanbana ga saku shima

|

|Kai ni tsudzuku basho nite

|

|Black Box

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|{{Sortname|first=Rosmarie|last=Waldrop}}

|—

|

|Ursula Vernon

|{{Sort|Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking|A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking}}

|

|Fiction

|{{Sortname|link=James McBride (writer)|first=James|last=McBride}}

|Deacon King Kong

|

|{{Sortname|first=Vincent|last=Brown|link=Vincent Brown (historian)}}

|Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

|

|Memorial Drive

|

|{{Sortname|first=Victoria|last=Chang}}

|OBIT

|

|{{Sortname|first=Samuel R.|last=Delany}}

|—

|

|{{sortname|Laura Jean|McKay}}

|{{Sort|Animals in That Country|The Animals in That Country}}

|Kaleidoscope (UK radio series). BBC. 2021-09-27.

|{{Sortname|first=Patrick Radden|last=Keefe}}

|Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

|{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |date=16 November 2021 |title=Baillie Gifford prize goes to 'controlled fury' of Empire of Pain |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/16/baillie-gifford-prize-empire-of-pain-patrick-radden-keefe |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=16 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116221709/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/16/baillie-gifford-prize-empire-of-pain-patrick-radden-keefe |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|Lucy|Caldwell}}

|All the People Were Mean and Bad

|{{Cite web|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=19 October 2021|title=Lucy Caldwell wins BBC national short story award for 'masterful' tale|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/19/lucy-caldwell-wins-bbc-national-short-story-award-for-masterful-tale|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019192514/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/19/lucy-caldwell-wins-bbc-national-short-story-award-for-masterful-tale|archive-date=19 October 2021|access-date=19 October 2021|website=The Guardian}}

|{{Sortname|first=Roy|last=Schwartz}}

|Is Superman Circumcised?

|{{Cite web |date=2021-12-03 |title=Is Superman Circumcised? wins oddest book title of the year award |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/03/is-superman-circumcised-wins-oddest-book-title-of-the-year-award |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801192220/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/dec/03/is-superman-circumcised-wins-oddest-book-title-of-the-year-award |url-status=live }}

|Booker Prize

|{{sortname|Damon|Galgut}}

|{{Sort|Promise|The Promise}}

|{{Cite news|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=3 November 2021|title=Damon Galgut wins Booker prize with 'spectacular' novel The Promise|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise|url-status=live|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103200242/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/damon-galgut-wins-booker-prize-the-promise|archive-date=3 November 2021}}

|{{sortname|David|Diop|David Diop (novelist)}} with Anna Moschovakis (trans.)

|At Night All Blood Is Black

|{{cite web |date=2021-06-02 |title=International Booker Prize: David Diop becomes first French winner |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57332739 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602180741/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-57332739 |archive-date=2021-06-02 |access-date=2 June 2021 |website=BBC News}}

|BSA–Best (Horror) Novel

|{{sort|Jones, Stephen Graham|Stephen Graham Jones}}

|My Heart is a Chainsaw

|{{Cite web |last=Pavlik |first=Tina |date=2022-05-16 |title=2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners |url=https://horror.org/2021-bram-stoker-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Horror Writers Association |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620004049/https://horror.org/2021-bram-stoker-awards-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|Author of the Year

|{{Sortname|first=Marian|last=Keyes}}

|—

| rowspan="6" |{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Porter |date=2022-05-24 |title=The 'Nibbies': The British Book Awards Name Their 2022 Winners |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2022/05/the-nibbies-the-british-book-awards-name-their-2022-winners/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Publishing Perspectives |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220724235003/https://publishingperspectives.com/2022/05/the-nibbies-the-british-book-awards-name-their-2022-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Marcus|last=Rashford}}

|You Are a Champion: How To Be the Best You Can Be

|{{Sortname|first=Phil|last=Earle}}

|When The Sky Falls

|{{Sortname|first=Meg|last=Mason}}

|Sorrow and Bliss

|{{Sortname|first=William|last=McIlvanney}}; Ian Rankin

|{{Sort|Dark Remains|The Dark Remains}}

|{{Sortname|first=Sathnam|last=Sanghera}}

|Empireland

|Fantasy Novel (Robert Holdstock Award)

|{{Sortname|first=Alix E.|last=Harrow}}

|{{Sort|Once and Future Witches|The Once and Future Witches}}

| rowspan="7" |{{Cite web |title=sfadb: British Fantasy Awards 2021 |url=http://www.sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2021 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=www.sfadb.com |archive-date=2022-08-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815093551/http://sfadb.com/British_Fantasy_Awards_2021 |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Silvia|last=Moreno-Garcia}}

|Mexican Gothic

|{{Sortname|first=P. Djèlí|last=Clark}}

|Ring Shout

|{{Sortname|first=Ida|last=Keogh}}

|{{Sort|Infinite Tea in the Demara Café|“Infinite Tea in the Demara Café”}}

|{{Sortname|first=Charlotte|last=Bond}}

|{{Sort|Watcher in the Woods|The Watcher in the Woods}}

|{{Sortname|first=Zelda|last=Knight}} & Oghenechovwe

|Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora

|{{Sortname|first=Alison|last=Peirse}}, ed.

|Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre

|{{sortname|Meron|Hadero}}

|{{Sort|Street Sweep|"The Street Sweep"}}

|{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57975088|title=AKO Caine Prize: Meron Hadero named first Ethiopian winner|publisher=BBC News|date=26 July 2021|access-date=19 July 2022|archive-date=25 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825195440/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57975088|url-status=live}}

|{{sortname|Paulina|Chiziane}}

|—

|{{Cite news|last=Fernando|first=Amós|date=21 October 2021|title=Moçambique: Paulina Chiziane "emocionada" com Prémio Camões 2021|work=Deutsche Welle|url=https://www.dw.com/pt-002/mo%C3%A7ambique-paulina-chiziane-emocionada-com-pr%C3%A9mio-cam%C3%B5es-2021/a-59581085|url-status=live|access-date=20 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120205645/https://www.dw.com/pt-002/mo%C3%A7ambique-paulina-chiziane-emocionada-com-pr%C3%A9mio-cam%C3%B5es-2021/a-59581085|archive-date=20 November 2021}}

|{{sortname|Nora|Gomringer}}

|—

|{{cite news|date=5 October 2020|title=Zuckmayer-Medaille für Nora Gomringer|work=Süddeutsche Zeitung|agency=dpa|location=Munich|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/verdienste-um-die-deutsche-sprache-zuckmayer-medaille-fuer-nora-gomringer-1.5054830|url-status=live|access-date=6 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011130519/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/verdienste-um-die-deutsche-sprache-zuckmayer-medaille-fuer-nora-gomringer-1.5054830|archive-date=11 October 2020}}

|{{Sortname|first=Jason|last=Reynolds}}

|Look Both Ways

|{{Cite web |date=2021-06-16 |title=Jason Reynolds wins Carnegie medal for 'breathtaking' Look Both Ways |url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/16/jason-reynolds-wins-carnegie-medal-look-both-ways-sydney-smith-kate-greenaway |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=2021-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616120632/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/16/jason-reynolds-wins-carnegie-medal-look-both-ways-sydney-smith-kate-greenaway |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|first=Kirstin Valdez|last=Quade}}

|{{Sort|Five Wounds|The Five Wounds}}

|{{Cite web|title=Kirstin Valdez Quade Wins The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize for The Five Wounds|url=https://centerforfiction.org/kirstin-valdez-quade-wins-the-the-center-for-fiction-2021-first-novel-prize-for-the-five-wounds/|access-date=December 20, 2021|website=Center for Fiction|archive-date=December 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211220221030/https://centerforfiction.org/kirstin-valdez-quade-wins-the-the-center-for-fiction-2021-first-novel-prize-for-the-five-wounds/|url-status=live}}

|Costa Book of the Year

| rowspan="2" |{{sortname|Claire|Fuller}}

| rowspan="2" |Unsettled Ground

|{{cite web |date=2022-01-06 |title=Costa Coffee announces the Costa Book Awards 2021 category winners |url=https://www.comunicaffe.com/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107123416/https://www.comunicaffe.com/costa-book-awards-2021-category-winners-announced/ |archive-date=2022-01-07 |access-date=2022-01-07 |website=Comunicaffe International |language=en-US}}

|

|{{sortname|John|Preston|John Preston (English author)}}

|Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell

|

|{{sortname|Manjeet|Mann}}

|{{Sort|Crossing|The Crossing}}

|

|{{sortname|Caleb Azumah|Nelson}}

|Open Water

|

|{{sortname|Hannah|Lowe}}

|{{Sort|Kids|The Kids}}

|

|{{sortname|Jack|Wang}}

|We Two Alone

|Vicky Qiao, [https://www.cbc.ca/books/jack-wang-wins-10k-danuta-gleed-literary-award-for-best-first-short-story-collection-for-we-two-alone-1.6043957 "Jack Wang wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first short story collection for We Two Alone"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018013355/https://www.cbc.ca/books/jack-wang-wins-10k-danuta-gleed-literary-award-for-best-first-short-story-collection-for-we-two-alone-1.6043957|date=2021-10-18}}. CBC Books, May 28, 2021.

|{{sortname|Colm|Tóibín}}

|—

|{{cite web|last=Crowley|first=Sinéad|date=2021-12-13|title=Colm Tóibín named winner of David Cohen Prize for Literature|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/1213/1266559-colm-toibin-literature-prize/|publisher=RTÉ|accessdate=2021-12-14|archive-date=2021-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211213230601/https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2021/1213/1266559-colm-toibin-literature-prize/|url-status=live}}

|{{Sortname|first=A.K.|last=Blakemore}}

|{{Sort|Manningtree Witches|The Manningtree Witches}}

|

|{{sortname|Raven|Leilani}}

|Luster

|{{cite web|date=13 May 2021|title=Dylan Thomas Prize: New Yorker Raven Leilani wins accolade|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57109365|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513220627/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57109365|archive-date=13 May 2021|access-date=14 May 2021|website=BBC News}}

|Best Novel

|{{Sortname|first=Deepa|last=Anappara}}

|Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

| rowspan="9" |{{Cite web |date=2022-04-29 |title=MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Winners |url=https://crimereads.com/mwa-announces-the-2022-edgar-award-winners/ |access-date=2022-07-12 |website=CrimeReads |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706234944/https://crimereads.com/mwa-announces-the-2022-edgar-award-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|Malice Domestic

|—

|{{Sortname|first=Reagan|last=Arthur}}

|—

|{{Sortname|first=Colette|last=Bancroft}}

|{{Sort|Bite|"The Bite"}}

|{{Sortname|first=Elsa|last=Hart}}

|{{Sort|Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne|The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne}}

|{{Sortname|first=Rosalie|last=Knecht}}

|Vera Kelly is Not a Mystery

|{{Sortname|first=Charlaine|last=Harris|link=Charlaine Harris}}

|—

|—

|{{Sortname|first=Elaine|last=Cuyegkeng}}

|{{Sort|Genetic Alchemist's Daughter|"The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter"}}

|European Book Prize (Novel)

|Christos Chomenidis

|Νίκη

|{{Cite web |last=Harris-Papaioannou |first=Stacey |date=2021-11-17 |title=Greek Author Christos Chomenidis Wins European Book Prize |url=https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/17/greek-author-christos-chomenidis-wins-european-book-prize/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=GreekReporter.com |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725003051/https://greekreporter.com/2021/11/17/greek-author-christos-chomenidis-wins-european-book-prize/ |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|first=Carmen Maria|last=Machado}}

|In the Dream House

|{{Cite web |title=2021 {{!}} The Rathbones Folio Prize |url=https://www.rathbonesfolioprize.com/the-2021-shortlist-2-3-2-2/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725003046/https://www.rathbonesfolioprize.com/the-2021-shortlist-2-3-2-2/ |url-status=usurped }}

|{{Sortname|first=Ivan|last=Vyskočil}}

|—

|{{Cite web |date=2021-12-17 |title=The writer Ivan Vyskočil won the Franz Kafka Award 2021 |url=http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/clanek/cenu-franze-kafky-2021-ziskal-spisovatel-ivan-vyskocil/ |access-date=2022-01-10 |website=Franz Kafka Society |language=en |archive-date=2022-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220111091929/http://www.franzkafka-soc.cz/clanek/cenu-franze-kafky-2021-ziskal-spisovatel-ivan-vyskocil/ |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|Omar|El Akkad}}

|What Strange Paradise

|{{Cite web|last=Bresge|first=Adina|date=2021-11-08|title=Omar El Akkad wins $100K Giller Prize for 'What Strange Paradise'|url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/omar-el-akkad-wins-100k-giller-prize-for-what-strange-paradise-1.5657809|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109200151/https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/omar-el-akkad-wins-100k-giller-prize-for-what-strange-paradise-1.5657809|archive-date=2021-11-09|access-date=2021-11-25|website=CTVNews|language=en}}

|{{Sortname|first=Isabel|last=Waidner}}

|Sterling Karat Gold

|

|{{Sortname|first=Hanif|last=Abdurraqib}}

|{{Sort|Little Devil in America|A Little Devil in America}}

|

|Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

|{{sortname|Norma|Dunning}}

|Tainna

|rowspan=7|{{Cite web|title=Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize|url=https://www.coastreporter.net/the-mix/inuk-author-norma-dunning-wins-25k-governor-generals-fiction-prize-4766110|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117161409/https://www.coastreporter.net/the-mix/inuk-author-norma-dunning-wins-25k-governor-generals-fiction-prize-4766110|archive-date=2021-11-17|access-date=2021-11-25|website=Coast Reporter|language=en}}

|Sadiqa de Meijer

|alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language

|Hannah Moscovitch

|Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

|Tolu Oloruntoba

|{{Sort|Junta of Happenstance|The Junta of Happenstance}}

|Philippa Dowding

|Firefly

|David A. Robertson, Julie Flett

|On the Trapline

|Erín Moure

|This Radiant Life

|{{sortname|Fanny|Britt}}

|Faire les sucres

|rowspan=7| {{Cite news|date=2021-11-17|title=Fanny Britt remporte le Prix du Gouverneur général|url=https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-11-17/fanny-britt-remporte-le-prix-du-gouverneur-general.php|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117183150/https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/litterature/2021-11-17/fanny-britt-remporte-le-prix-du-gouverneur-general.php|archive-date=2021-11-17|access-date=2021-11-25|website=La Presse|language=fr |last1=Maalouf |first1=Laila }}

|Serge Bouchard, Mark Fortier

|Du diesel dans les veines

|Mishka Lavigne

|Copeaux

|Tania Langlais

|Pendant que Perceval tombait

|Jean-François Sénéchal

|Les Avenues

|Mario Brassard, Gérard DuBois

|À qui appartiennent les nuages ?

|Marie Frankland

|Poèmes 1938-1984

|{{sortname|François-Henri|Désérable}}

|Mon maître et mon vainqueur

|{{Cite news|date=28 October 2021|title=François-Henri Désérable reçoit le Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française|language=fr|work=Le Monde|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/28/francois-henri-deserable-recoit-le-grand-prix-du-roman-de-l-academie-francaise_6100252_3246.html|url-status=live|access-date=1 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031114354/https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/28/francois-henri-deserable-recoit-le-grand-prix-du-roman-de-l-academie-francaise_6100252_3246.html|archive-date=31 October 2021}}

|{{sortname|Martha|Nussbaum}}

|—

|{{Cite web|title=Martha C. Nussbaum {{!}} Holbergprisen|url=https://holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-prize/prize-winners/martha-c-nussbaum|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305144217/https://holbergprisen.no/en/holberg-prize/prize-winners/martha-c-nussbaum|archive-date=2021-03-05|access-date=2021-03-05|website=holbergprisen.no|date=5 March 2021 |language=nb-NO}}

|Best Novel

|{{Sortname|first=Martha|last=Wells}}

|Network Effect

| rowspan="6" |{{Cite web |date=2021-01-01 |title=2021 Hugo Awards |url=https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=The Hugo Awards |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219143154/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2021-hugo-awards/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Nghi|last=Vo}}

|{{Sort|Empress of Salt and Fortune|The Empress of Salt and Fortune}}

|{{Sortname|first=Sarah|last=Pinsker}}

|{{Sort|Two Truths and a Lie|"Two Truths and a Lie"}}

|{{Sortname|first=Ursula|last=Vernon}}

|{{Sort|Metal Like Blood in the Dark|"Metal Like Blood in the Dark"}}

|{{sortname|Ursula|Vernon}}

|{{sort|Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking|A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking}}

|{{sortname|Emily|Tesh}}

|Silver in the Wood

|Fiction

|{{Sortname|first=Percival|last=Everett}}

|Telephone

|

|{{Sortname|first=Marcia|last=Chatelain}}

|Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

|

|{{Sortname|first=Rita|last=Woods}}

|Remembrance

|

|{{Sortname|first=Rachel Eliza|last=Griffiths}}

|Seeing the Body

|

|{{sortname|Valeria|Luiselli}}

|Lost Children Archive

|{{Cite web|title=Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli is the winner of the 2021 DUBLIN Literary Award|url=https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/news/lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli-is-the-winner-of-the-2021-dublin-literary-award/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018091459/https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/news/lost-children-archive-by-valeria-luiselli-is-the-winner-of-the-2021-dublin-literary-award/|archive-date=18 October 2021|access-date=18 October 2021|website=DUBLIN Literary Award}}

|Best Hard Cover Novel

|{{sortname|S. A.|Cosby}}

|Blacktop Wasteland

| rowspan="6" |{{Cite web |title=Past Nominees and Winners |url=https://thrillerwriters.org/past-nominees-and-winners/ |access-date=2022-08-01 |website=International Thriller Writers |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220802123057/https://thrillerwriters.org/past-nominees-and-winners/ |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|John|Marrs}}

|What Lies Between Us

|{{sortname|Jeff|Buick}}

|{{Sort|Killing Game|A Killing Game}}

|{{sortname|David Heska Wanbli|Weiden}}

|Winter Counts

|{{sortname|Andrea|Contos}}

|Throwaway Girls

|{{sortname|Alan|Orloff}}

|{{Sort|Rent Due|"Rent Due"}}

|{{sortname|Julian|Barnes}}

|—

|{{cite web|author=Porter Anderson|date=3 May 2021|title=Israel's Jerusalem Prize Goes to England's Julian Barnes|url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/05/the-jerusalem-prize-goes-to-englands-julian-barnes-covid19/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210525103720/https://publishingperspectives.com/2021/05/the-jerusalem-prize-goes-to-englands-julian-barnes-covid19/|archive-date=25 May 2021|access-date=17 September 2021|website=Publishing Perspectives}}

|{{Sortname|first=Anakana|last=Schofield}}

|BINA

|{{Cite web |last=Audley |first=Fiona |title=Kerry Group Irish Novel of Year winner 2021 announced |url=https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/kerry-group-irish-novel-of-year-winner-2021-announced-214299 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=The Irish Post |archive-date=2022-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727002603/https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/kerry-group-irish-novel-of-year-winner-2021-announced-214299 |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Cristina Peri|last=Rossi}}

|—

|

|{{Sortname|first=Amanda|last=Lohrey}}

|The Labyrinth

|

|{{Sortname|first=Cassandra|last=Pybus}}

|Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse

|

|National Book Award–Fiction

|{{sortname|Jason|Mott}}

|Hell of a Book

|{{Cite web|title=National Book Awards 2021|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2021/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117184531/https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2021/|archive-date=November 17, 2021|access-date=November 17, 2021|website=National Book Foundation}}

|{{sortname|Tiya|Miles}}

|All That She Carried

|

|{{sortname|Martín|Espada}}

|Floaters

|

|{{sortname|Elisa Shua|Dusapin}} with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.)

|Winter in Sokcho

|

|{{sortname|Malinda|Lo}}

|Last Night at the Telegraph Club

|

|National Book Critics–Fiction

|{{Sortname|last=Jeffers|first=Honorée Fanonne}}

|{{Sort|Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois|The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois}}

|{{Cite web |last=Beer |first=Tom |date=2022-03-17 |title=NBCC Award Winners Revealed at Virtual Ceremony |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/nbcc-award-winners-revealed-at-virtual-ceremony/ |access-date=2022-03-20 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=2022-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220320004846/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/nbcc-award-winners-revealed-at-virtual-ceremony/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|link=Clint Smith (writer)|last=Smith|first=Clint}}

|How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

|

|{{Sortname|first=Rebecca|last=Donner}}

|All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

|{{Cite web |title=NBCC Award Winners Revealed at Virtual Ceremony |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/nbcc-award-winners-revealed-at-virtual-ceremony/ |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Kirkus Reviews |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829014108/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/nbcc-award-winners-revealed-at-virtual-ceremony/ |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Melissa|last=Febos}}

|Girlhood

|

|Best Novel

|{{Sortname|first=Martha|last=Wells}}

|Network Effect

| rowspan="4" |{{Cite web |title=sfadb: Nebula Awards 2021 |url=http://www.sfadb.com/Nebula_Awards_2021 |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=www.sfadb.com |archive-date=2021-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508051526/https://www.sfadb.com/Nebula_Awards_2021 |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=P. Djèlí|last=Clark}}

|Ring Shout

|{{Sortname|first=Sarah|last=Pinsker}}

|{{Sort|Two Truths and a Lie|"Two Truths and a Lie"}}

|{{Sortname|first=John|last=Wiswell}}

|{{Sort|Open House on Haunted Hill|"Open House on Haunted Hill"}}

|{{sort|Keller, Tae|Tae Keller}}

|When You Trap a Tiger

|

|Jury Award

| rowspan="2" |{{Sortname|first=Zbigniew|last=Rokita}}

| rowspan="2" |Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku

|

|

|{{sortname|Abdulrazak|Gurnah}}

|—

|{{cite web|date=2021-10-07|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 2021|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007151626/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2021/summary/|archive-date=2021-10-07|access-date=2021-10-07|website=NobelPrize.org}}

|Political Fiction

|{{sortname|Ali|Smith}}

|Summer

|{{Cite web|last=|date=2021-06-28|title=Smith, Yaffa win 2021 Orwell Prizes|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/06/28/188724/smith-yaffa-win-2021-orwell-prizes/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628013754/https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2021/06/28/188724/smith-yaffa-win-2021-orwell-prizes/|archive-date=2021-06-28|access-date=2021-06-28|website=Books+Publishing|language=en-AU}}

|{{sortname|Joshua|Yaffa}}

|Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition and Compromise in Putin's Russia

|

|{{Sortname|first=Deesha|last=Philyaw}}

|{{Sort|Secret Lives of Church Ladies|The Secret Lives of Church Ladies}}

|{{Cite web |title=Deesha Philyaw receives PEN/Faulkner award for 'Secret Lives of Church Ladies' |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/04/07/Deesha-Philyaw-PEN-Faulkner-award-fiction-Secret-Lives-Church-Ladies-Wilkinsburg-2021/stories/202104060138 |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518012708/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/2021/04/07/Deesha-Philyaw-PEN-Faulkner-award-fiction-Secret-Lives-Church-Ladies-Wilkinsburg-2021/stories/202104060138 |url-status=live }}

|Winner

|{{Sortname|first=Kali|last=Wallace}}

|Dead Space

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|{{Sortname|first=Lavie|last=Tidhar}}

|{{Sort|Escapement|The Escapement}}

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|{{Sortname|first=Carmen|last=Mola}}

|La bestia

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|{{Sortname|first=Emanuele|last=Trevi}}

|Due vite

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|{{Sortname|last=MacMillan|first=Margaret}}

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|Prix Femina

|{{sortname|Clara|Dupont-Monod}}

|S'adapter

|{{Cite news |last=Clermont |first=Thierry |date=25 October 2021 |title=Clara Dupont-Monod remporte le prix Femina 2021 |language=fr |work=Le Figaro |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/clara-dupont-monod-remporte-le-prix-femina-2021-20211025 |url-status=live |access-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211102235213/https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/clara-dupont-monod-remporte-le-prix-femina-2021-20211025 |archive-date=2 November 2021}}

|{{Sortname|first=Ahmet|last=Altan}}

|Hayat Hanım

|{{Cite web |date=2021-10-25 |title=Les prix Femina 2021 pour Clara Dupont-Monod, Ahmet Altan et Annie Cohen-Solal |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/prix-litteraires/20211025.OBS50254/les-prix-femina-2021-pour-clara-dupont-monod-ahmet-altan-et-annie-cohen-solal.html |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=L'Obs |language=fr |archive-date=2022-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801185019/https://www.nouvelobs.com/prix-litteraires/20211025.OBS50254/les-prix-femina-2021-pour-clara-dupont-monod-ahmet-altan-et-annie-cohen-solal.html |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|last=Cohen-Solal|first=Annie}}

|Un étranger nommé Picasso

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|{{Sortname|first=Ananda|last=Devi}}

|Le rire des déesses

|{{Cite web |title=Ananda Devi, lauréate du Femina des lycéens 2021 |url=https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/ananda-devi-laureate-du-femina-des-lyceens-2021 |access-date=2022-07-24 |website=Livres Hebdo |language=fr |archive-date=2022-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129083149/https://www.livreshebdo.fr/article/ananda-devi-laureate-du-femina-des-lyceens-2021 |url-status=live }}

|{{sortname|first=Mohamed Mbougar|last=Sarr}}

|La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

|{{Cite news|last=Henley|first=Jon|date=3 November 2021|title=Senegal's Mohamed Mbougar Sarr wins top French literary prize|work=The Guardian|location=London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/senegals-mohamed-mbougar-sarr-wins-french-literary-prize-prix-goncourt|url-status=live|access-date=3 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103160331/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/03/senegals-mohamed-mbougar-sarr-wins-french-literary-prize-prix-goncourt|archive-date=3 November 2021}}

|{{sortname|Christine|Angot}}

|Le Voyage dans l'Est

|{{Cite web|date=26 October 2021|title=Prix Médicis : Christine Angot lauréate pour son roman Le Voyage dans l'Est|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/26/christine-angot-remporte-le-prix-medicis-avec-le-voyage-dans-l-est_6099942_3246.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109124208/https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2021/10/26/christine-angot-remporte-le-prix-medicis-avec-le-voyage-dans-l-est_6099942_3246.html|archive-date=9 November 2021|access-date=10 November 2021|website=Le Monde|language=fr}}

|{{sortname|Amélie|Nothomb}}

|Premier sang

|{{Cite web|date=2021-11-03|title=Le prix Renaudot récompense Amélie Nothomb pour " Premier sang "|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/culture/livres/le-prix-renaudot-recompense-amelie-nothomb-pour-premier-sang-00f8874e-3c9d-11ec-8bc6-eb6b26766f3c|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211110093612/https://www.ouest-france.fr/culture/livres/le-prix-renaudot-recompense-amelie-nothomb-pour-premier-sang-00f8874e-3c9d-11ec-8bc6-eb6b26766f3c|archive-date=2021-11-10|access-date=2021-11-03|website=ouest-france.fr}}

|Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

|{{sortname|Louise|Erdrich}}

|{{Sort|Night Watchman|The Night Watchman}}

| rowspan="5" |{{Cite web |title=2021 Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=www.pulitzer.org |language=en |archive-date=2022-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711134532/https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2021 |url-status=live }}

|{{Sortname|first=Katori|last=Hall}}

|{{Sort|Hot Wing King|The Hot Wing King}}

|{{Sortname|first=David|last=Zucchino}}

|Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

|{{Sortname|first=Marcia|last=Chatelain}}

|Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

|{{Sortname|first=Les|last=Payne}} and Tamara Payne

|{{Sort|Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X|The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X}}

|Golden Wreath laureate

|{{Sortname|first=Carol Ann|last=Duffy}}

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|{{Sortname|first=Vladan|last=Kreckovic}}

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|{{sortname|Hilary|Mantel}}

|{{Sort|Mirror and the Light|The Mirror and the Light}}

|{{Cite web |title=The history of the Prize - |url=https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/about-the-prize/background/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction |language=en-US |archive-date=2022-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725005516/https://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/about-the-prize/background/ |url-status=live }}

| rowspan="4" |Whiting Award for Fiction

|{{Sortname|first=Claire|last=Boyles}}

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| rowspan="4" |{{cite web |date=6 April 2022 |title=Introducing the Winners of the 2022 Whiting Awards |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/04/06/introducing-the-winners-of-the-2022-whiting-awards/ |access-date=29 April 2022 |website=The Paris Review |archive-date=1 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220501222634/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/04/06/introducing-the-winners-of-the-2022-whiting-awards/ |url-status=live }}

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|{{sortname|Susanna|Clarke}}

|Piranesi

|{{cite web|last=Flood|first=Alison|date=2021-09-08|title=Women's prize for fiction goes to Susanna Clarke's 'mind-bending' Piranesi|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/womens-prize-for-fiction-goes-to-susanna-clarkes-mind-bending-piranesi|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908183037/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/08/womens-prize-for-fiction-goes-to-susanna-clarkes-mind-bending-piranesi|archive-date=2021-09-08|access-date=2021-09-08|work=The Guardian|location=London}}

|Novel

|{{Sortname|last=Johnson|first=Alaya Dawn}}

|Trouble the Saints

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|{{Sortname|first=Tochi|last=Onyebuchi}}

|Riot Baby

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|{{sortname|Celeste Rita|Baker}}

|{{Sort|Glass Bottle Dancer|"Glass Bottle Dancer"}}

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|{{Sortname|first=Aoko|last=Matsuda}}

|Where the Wild Ladies Are

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|Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

|Ronald Deibert

|Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society

|{{cite news |url=https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/national_entertainment/article_04d8ecdd-a6c5-50e3-bea3-74182b5e5465.html |title=Desmond Cole, Celina Caesar-Chavannes among finalists for political writing prize |agency=Canadian Press |newspaper=The Daily Courier |location=Kelowna |date=2 June 2021 |access-date=2 June 2021 |archive-date=2 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602225049/https://www.kelownadailycourier.ca/entertainment/national_entertainment/article_04d8ecdd-a6c5-50e3-bea3-74182b5e5465.html |url-status=live }}

|Anna Ling Kaye

|"East City"

|rowspan=2|Vicky Qiao, [https://www.cbc.ca/books/zehra-naqvi-and-anna-ling-kaye-win-10k-rbc-bronwen-wallace-award-for-emerging-writers-1.6069197 "Zehra Naqvi and Anna Ling Kaye win $10K RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213064430/https://www.cbc.ca/books/zehra-naqvi-and-anna-ling-kaye-win-10k-rbc-bronwen-wallace-award-for-emerging-writers-1.6069197 |date=2022-12-13 }}. CBC Books, June 17, 2021.

|"The Knot of My Tongue"

|colspan=2|{{Sortname|first=Jillian|last=Christmas}}

|Ryan Porter, [https://quillandquire.com/omni/emerging-queer-writers-celebrated-as-finalists-announced-for-dayne-ogilvie-prize/ "Emerging queer writers celebrated as finalists announced for Dayne Ogilvie Prize"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213062923/https://quillandquire.com/omni/emerging-queer-writers-celebrated-as-finalists-announced-for-dayne-ogilvie-prize/ |date=2022-12-13 }}. Quill & Quire, May 26, 2021.

|{{sortname|Katherena|Vermette}}

|{{Sort|Strangers|The Strangers}}

|rowspan=6|Jane van Koeverden, [https://www.cbc.ca/books/katherena-vermette-tomson-highway-and-cherie-dimaline-among-winners-at-2021-writers-trust-awards-1.6234384 "Katherena Vermette, Tomson Highway and Cherie Dimaline among winners at 2021 Writers' Trust Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105163434/https://www.cbc.ca/books/katherena-vermette-tomson-highway-and-cherie-dimaline-among-winners-at-2021-writers-trust-awards-1.6234384|date=2021-11-05}}. CBC Books, November 3, 2021.

|{{sortname|Tomson|Highway}}

|Permanent Astonishment

|colspan=2|{{sortname|Weyman|Chan}}

|colspan=2|{{sortname|Frances|Itani}}

|colspan=2|Linda Bailey

|colspan=2|{{sortname|Cherie|Dimaline}}

|Dan Breznitz

|Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World

|Vicky Qiao, [https://www.cbc.ca/books/toronto-scholar-dan-breznitz-wins-inaugural-60k-balsillie-prize-for-best-canadian-public-policy-book-1.6258424 "Toronto scholar Dan Breznitz wins inaugural $60K Balsillie Prize for best Canadian public policy book"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213052627/https://www.cbc.ca/books/toronto-scholar-dan-breznitz-wins-inaugural-60k-balsillie-prize-for-best-canadian-public-policy-book-1.6258424 |date=2022-12-13 }}. CBC Books, November 24, 2021.

|{{Sortname|nolink=1|first=Mark|last=Treanor}}

|{{Sort|Quiet Cadence: A Novel|A Quiet Cadence: A Novel}}

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|{{Sortname|first=Yusef|last=Komunyakaa}}

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