A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

1.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,968 ratings
2.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 333,045 ratings
3.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 813,198 ratings
4.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,001,689 ratings
5.
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) 4.11 avg rating β€” 376,627 ratings
6.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) 4.47 avg rating β€” 11,064,119 ratings
7.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating β€” 657,098 ratings
8.
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) 4.05 avg rating β€” 435,486 ratings
9.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 227,520 ratings
9.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating β€” 25,612 ratings
11.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating β€” 3,358,462 ratings
12.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,010,506 ratings
13.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating β€” 26,608 ratings
14.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,018 ratings
15.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating β€” 115,232 ratings
16.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating β€” 132,986 ratings
17.
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)
The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1) 4.46 avg rating β€” 986,364 ratings
18.
The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating β€” 44,321 ratings
19.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating β€” 54,646 ratings
20.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating β€” 30,643 ratings
21.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating β€” 274,956 ratings
22.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating β€” 23,798 ratings
23.
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 4.40 avg rating β€” 62,916 ratings
24.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone 3.86 avg rating β€” 38,156 ratings
25.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating β€” 200,084 ratings
26.
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 281,937 ratings
27.
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai 4.11 avg rating β€” 10,904 ratings
28.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating β€” 37,302 ratings
29.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating β€” 194,245 ratings
30.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating β€” 50,128 ratings
31.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating β€” 46,698 ratings
32.
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers 3.51 avg rating β€” 23,701 ratings
33.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating β€” 284,956 ratings
34.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating β€” 73,387 ratings
35.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating β€” 67,296 ratings
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NW
NW 3.48 avg rating β€” 44,462 ratings
37.
Dept. of Speculation
Dept. of Speculation 3.76 avg rating β€” 58,093 ratings
38.
Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox 3.57 avg rating β€” 11,452 ratings
38.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,753 ratings
40.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse 4.18 avg rating β€” 13,388 ratings
41.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,874 ratings
42.
Eat the Document
Eat the Document 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,918 ratings
43.
The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project 3.57 avg rating β€” 6,812 ratings
44.
Scenes from Provincial Life
Scenes from Provincial Life 4.13 avg rating β€” 552 ratings
45.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 3.79 avg rating β€” 30,887 ratings
46.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,664 ratings
46.
Family Life
Family Life 3.53 avg rating β€” 9,860 ratings
48.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 4.12 avg rating β€” 55,467 ratings
49.
Priestdaddy
Priestdaddy 3.86 avg rating β€” 25,273 ratings
50.
How Should a Person Be?
How Should a Person Be? 3.33 avg rating β€” 16,644 ratings
51.
Outline
Outline 3.67 avg rating β€” 65,982 ratings
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden 3.94 avg rating β€” 9,291 ratings
53.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station 3.79 avg rating β€” 18,336 ratings
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Erasure
Erasure 4.17 avg rating β€” 28,471 ratings
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Platform
Platform 3.81 avg rating β€” 25,019 ratings
56.
Do Everything in the Dark
Do Everything in the Dark 3.92 avg rating β€” 276 ratings
57.
Veronica
Veronica 3.43 avg rating β€” 7,561 ratings
58.
Ooga-Booga: Poems
Ooga-Booga: Poems 3.96 avg rating β€” 497 ratings
59.
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them 3.71 avg rating β€” 5,946 ratings
60.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 3.25 avg rating β€” 68,151 ratings
61.
Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir
Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating β€” 10,566 ratings
62.
White Girls
White Girls 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,182 ratings
63.
My Struggle (3 Book Series)
My Struggle (3 Book Series) 4.10 avg rating β€” 48,192 ratings
64.
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating β€” 31,465 ratings
65.
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) 4.40 avg rating β€” 131 ratings
66.
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos 4.21 avg rating β€” 7,894 ratings
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The Time of Our Singing
The Time of Our Singing 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,147 ratings
68.
The Book of Salt
The Book of Salt 3.53 avg rating β€” 6,488 ratings
69.
Mortals
Mortals 3.78 avg rating β€” 602 ratings
70.
Home Land
Home Land 3.62 avg rating β€” 2,869 ratings
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Oblivion
Oblivion 4.07 avg rating β€” 15,564 ratings
72.
Honored Guest
Honored Guest 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,230 ratings
73.
The Sluts
The Sluts 3.78 avg rating β€” 8,470 ratings
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Magic for Beginners
Magic for Beginners 3.80 avg rating β€” 10,117 ratings
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The Afterlife
The Afterlife 3.57 avg rating β€” 633 ratings
76.
Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,646 ratings
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American Genius
American Genius 3.75 avg rating β€” 291 ratings
78.
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City 3.92 avg rating β€” 203 ratings
79.
Home (Gilead, #2)
Home (Gilead, #2) 4.04 avg rating β€” 29,639 ratings
80.
Fine Just the Way it Is
Fine Just the Way it Is 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,926 ratings
81.
Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land
by: Eula Biss
4.18 avg rating β€” 3,798 ratings
82.
Spreadeagle
Spreadeagle 4.56 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
83.
Super Sad True Love Story
Super Sad True Love Story 3.45 avg rating β€” 41,498 ratings
84.
Seven Years
Seven Years 3.49 avg rating β€” 1,831 ratings
85.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending 3.74 avg rating β€” 188,374 ratings
86.
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,507 ratings
87.
Capital
Capital 3.71 avg rating β€” 14,539 ratings
88.
Taipei
Taipei
by: Tao Lin
3.33 avg rating β€” 7,867 ratings
89.
How to be Both
How to be Both
by: Ali Smith
3.66 avg rating β€” 26,692 ratings
90.
Preparation for the Next Life
Preparation for the Next Life 3.77 avg rating β€” 4,409 ratings
91.
The Light of the World
The Light of the World 4.10 avg rating β€” 10,142 ratings
92.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating β€” 317,157 ratings
93.
What Belongs to You
What Belongs to You 3.78 avg rating β€” 14,938 ratings
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Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings
Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada / From the Briarpatch File / Other Writings 4.43 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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The Needle's Eye
The Needle's Eye 4.01 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
96.
Ghachar Ghochar
Ghachar Ghochar 3.89 avg rating β€” 17,798 ratings
97.
All Grown Up
All Grown Up 3.38 avg rating β€” 17,213 ratings
98.
The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do
by: Thi Bui
4.36 avg rating β€” 38,830 ratings
99.
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions 4.39 avg rating β€” 16,458 ratings
100.
Red Clocks
Red Clocks 3.66 avg rating β€” 24,830 ratings