The Most Anticipated Books of 2021

 

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 will be long remembered as a Dumpster fire of a year. But the nice thing about time is that it keeps moving forward. For those of us with a serious reading habit, the new year means that a flotilla of new books is just now coming round the bend. Jane Harper! Kazuo Ishiguro! Walter Isaacson! Angie Thomas! And that’s just the beginning.
 
At the end of each calendar year, the Goodreads Editorial team takes a look at the upcoming books that are being published. We also track early reviews and crunch the numbers on how many readers are adding these books to their Want to Read shelves. All of that information ultimately fuels our curated list of the Most Anticipated new releases of the coming year.

Here are some recommendations from Goodreads:      

FICTION

• This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

• The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

MYSTERY & THRILLER

• The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins

• The Survivors by Jane Harper

FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION

• Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor

• The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

NONFICTION

• To Be Honest by Michael Leviton

• Aftershocks by Nadia Owusu

YOUNG ADULT

• Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas

• Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo