A new year means new resolutions. And if reading more is on your list, grab your blankets and light some candles because we’re about to get cozy. From memoirs of the biggest movers and shakers in culture, to novels shining light on untold stories of society, our staff has put together the ultimate must-read books of 2021 list So here are 6 books you’ll want to read from cover to cover and a few extra gems to keep on your coffee table.

A Promised Land

By Barack Obama

Release Date: November 17, 2020

Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review

Greenlights

By Matthew McConaughey

Release Date: October 20, 2020

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guardian

The Vanishing Half

By Brit Bennet

Release Date: June 2, 2020

2020 Goodreads Choice Awards for Best Historical Fiction

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By Erik Larson

Release Date: February 25, 2020

Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books

The Dutch House

By Ann Patchett
Release Date: September 24, 2019

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

News from the World

By Paulette Jiles
Release Date: June 20, 2017

National Book Award Finalist—Fiction 

 

Great Books to have on your coffee table:

Accidentally Wes Anderson

By Wally Koval with foreword by Wes Anderson

Release Date: October 20, 2020

Humans

By Brandon Standon

Release Date: October 6, 2020

Annie Leibowitz: The Early Years 1970-1983

By Luc Sante, Jann S. Wenner, and Annie Leibovitz

Release Date: December 10, 2018