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2021 Time Winners

Browse the 2021 Time winners and nominees by category. Each category starts with the winner, followed by nominees and other recognized titles.

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Best Fiction Books

Winner and nominees for the 2021 Time Best Fiction Books category.

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Winner

Great Circle

Shipstead, Maggie

Standalone · Literary

May-2021 2021 Time winner

Afterparties: Stories

So, Anthony Veasna

Standalone · General Fiction

Aug-2021 2021 Time *

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Doerr, Anthony

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2021 2021 Time *

Detransition, Baby

Peters, Torrey

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 2021 Time *

Klara and the Sun

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Standalone · Literary

Mar-2021 2021 Time *

The Life of the Mind

Smallwood, Christine

Standalone · Psychological Suspense

Mar-2021 2021 Time *

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

Jeffers, Honoree Fanonne

Standalone · Women's Fiction

Aug-2021 2021 Time *

My Monticello: Fiction

Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole

Standalone · Literary

Oct-2021 2021 Time *

Open Water

Nelson, Caleb Azumah

Standalone · Literary

Apr-2021 2021 Time *

The Prophets

Jones, Robert, Jr.

Standalone · Literary

Jan-2021 2021 Time *

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