NYT Readers best 100 books of the 21st century
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 · 5 lists
- 2
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014 · 7 lists
- 3
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles · 2016 · 3 lists
- 4
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013 · 9 lists
- 5
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017 · 7 lists
- 6
Educated
Tara Westover · 2018 · 3 lists
- 7
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022 · 2 lists
- 8
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante · 2011 · 6 lists
- 9
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · 11 lists
- 10
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · 3 lists
- 11
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara · 2015 · 2 lists
- 12
The Overstory
Richard Powers · 2018 · 4 lists
- 13
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead · 2016 · 8 lists
- 14
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009 · 12 lists
- 15
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · 14 lists
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders · 2017 · 7 lists
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Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001 · 18 lists
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Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 · 12 lists
- 19
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2013 · 9 lists
- 20
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon · 2000 · 10 lists
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020 · 5 lists
- 23
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · 6 lists
- 24
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2001 · 7 lists
- 25
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson · 2004 · 12 lists
- 26
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
- 27
Normal People
Sally Rooney · 2018 · 5 lists
- 28
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese · 2009 · 2 lists
- 29
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018 · 7 lists
- 30
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010 · 9 lists
- 31
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018 · 1 list
- 32
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr · 2021 · 1 list
- 33
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005 · 7 lists
- 34
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004 · 7 lists
- 35
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese · 2023 · 1 list
- 36
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005 · 9 lists
- 37
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead · 2019 · 4 lists
- 38
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · 4 lists
- 39
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 2007 · 5 lists
- 40
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003 · 6 lists
- 41
Life after life
Kate Atkinson · 2013 · 6 lists
- 42
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007 · 14 lists
- 43
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · 6 lists
- 44
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride · 2003 · 2 lists
- 45
There There
Tommy Orange · 2018 · 6 lists
- 46
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011 · 3 lists
- 47
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus · 2022 · 1 list
- 48
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2019 · 3 lists
- 49
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 2011 · 7 lists
- 50
James
Percival Everett · 2024 · 4 lists
- 51
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson · 2020 · 2 lists
- 52
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2000 · 2 lists
- 53
Trust
Hernan Diaz · 2022 · 6 lists
- 54
11/22/63
Stephen King · 2011 · 2 lists
- 55
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer · 2013 · 1 list
- 56
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins · 2008 · 6 lists
- 57
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan · 2020 · 3 lists
- 58
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000 · 17 lists
- 59
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018 · 2 lists
- 60
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett · 2019 · 2 lists
- 61
North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023 · 3 lists
- 62
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015 · 6 lists
- 63
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin · 2015 · 4 lists
- 64
2666
Roberto Bolaño · 2004 · 12 lists
- 65
Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · 7 lists
- 66
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2006 · 6 lists
- 67
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2019 · 2 lists
- 68
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003 · 3 lists
- 69
Killers of the Flower Moon
David Grann · 2017 · 1 list
- 70
Know My Name
Chanel Miller · 2019 · 1 list
- 71
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward · 2017 · 6 lists
- 72
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner · 2021 · 2 lists
- 73
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling · 2007 · 6 lists
- 74
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2019 · 1 list
- 75
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles · 2021 · 1 list
- 76
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · 2014 · 2 lists
- 77
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · 1 list
- 78
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami · 2005 · 5 lists
- 79
1Q84
Haruki Murakami · 2009 · 3 lists
- 80
Deacon King Kong
James McBride · 2020 · 3 lists
- 81
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 2009 · 2 lists
- 82
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett · 2023 · 1 list
- 83
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann · 2009 · 5 lists
- 84
Tenth of December
George Saunders · 2012 · 3 lists
- 85
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi · 2016 · 1 list
- 86
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001 · 6 lists
- 87
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo · 2019 · 3 lists
- 88
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth · 2004 · 8 lists
- 89
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 2005 · 1 list
- 90
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado · 2019 · 1 list
- 91
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021 · 1 list
- 92
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones · 2009 · 2 lists
- 93
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt · 2022 · 1 list
- 94
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray · 2023 · 4 lists
- 95
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007 · 3 lists
- 96
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020 · 3 lists
- 97
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh · 2018 · 2 lists
- 98
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart · 2020 · 5 lists
- 99
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2021 · 1 list
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman; translated by Henning Koch · 2014 · 2 lists