The 5 best nonfiction books of 2021 according to Mary Ann Gwinn
LA TimesAs 2021 comes hobbling to an end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Books The 5 best fiction books of 2021, according to Mark Athitakis As 2021 comes hobbling to an end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. … The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women’s Rights By Dorothy Wickenden Scribner: 400 pages, $30 Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker, does an almost perfect job of braiding together the stories of three very different women: Frances Seward, wife of Lincoln’s secretary of State; feminist Martha Coffin Wright; and Harriet Tubman, one of the bravest women you will encounter. … Books The 5 best books of 2021 according to Jessica Ferri As 2021 nears the end, we ask four book critics to pick their favorites from a very fruitful year. Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II By Daniel James Brown Viking: 560 pages, $30 The author of the mega-bestseller “The Boys in the Boat” tells three separate stories centering on Japanese Americans during World War II: of the West Coast families incarcerated by the government; of the young men who enlisted and faced some of the worst fighting of the war; and of a young war resister dedicated to fighting both the unfair treatment of Japanese Americans and the war itself.