The Best Books of 2021, Chosen by Mosaic Authors (Part I)

By Elliott Abrams, Richard Goldberg, Neil Rogachevsky, Jonathan Silver, Ruth R. Wisse

Five of our writers pick several favorites each, featuring a duke's children, Jewish treasures, zealots and emancipators, revolts, dual allegiances, spies, and more.

To mark the close of 2021, we asked several of our writers to name the best three books they’ve read this year, and briefly to explain their choices. We have encouraged them to pick two recent books, and one older one. The first five of their answers appear below in alphabetical order. The rest will appear tomorrow. (Unless otherwise noted, all books were published in 2021. Classic books are listed by their original publication dates.)

Elliott Abrams

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