The top 21 Los Angeles Times stories of 2021

The top 21 most read stories of the year include pieces on Amanda Gorman, the “Rust” shooting, quite a few celebrities and, unsurprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Readers spent a total of about 27,179,133 hours or 1,630,747,973 minutes, the equivalent of more than 1,132,464 days, reading the 21 stories below.