Vulture's Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon

1.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 813,080 ratings
2.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating β€” 657,078 ratings
3.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating β€” 1,010,417 ratings
4.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,932 ratings
5.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating β€” 30,640 ratings
6.
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) 4.11 avg rating β€” 376,611 ratings
7.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending 3.74 avg rating β€” 188,365 ratings
8.
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai 4.11 avg rating β€” 10,901 ratings
9.
The Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels 4.56 avg rating β€” 6,845 ratings
10.
The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos
The Outline Trilogy: Outline, Transit and Kudos 4.11 avg rating β€” 777 ratings
11.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating β€” 284,906 ratings
12.
My Struggle: Book 2
My Struggle: Book 2 4.33 avg rating β€” 23,434 ratings
13.
Dept. of Speculation
Dept. of Speculation 3.76 avg rating β€” 58,088 ratings
14.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating β€” 23,797 ratings
15.
Winter's Bone
Winter's Bone 3.86 avg rating β€” 38,153 ratings
16.
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake / The Year of the Flood / MaddAddam 4.52 avg rating β€” 4,417 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€” 986,282 ratings
18.
Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7) 4.73 avg rating β€” 299,530 ratings
19.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating β€” 54,641 ratings
20.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating β€” 46,692 ratings
21.
Leaving the Atocha Station
Leaving the Atocha Station 3.79 avg rating β€” 18,336 ratings
22.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating β€” 73,383 ratings
23.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating β€” 67,292 ratings
23.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 227,499 ratings
25.
Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox 3.57 avg rating β€” 11,452 ratings
26.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating β€” 274,943 ratings
27.
The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating β€” 44,316 ratings
27.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 3.25 avg rating β€” 68,151 ratings
29.
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating β€” 31,458 ratings
30.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,866 ratings
31.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating β€” 115,221 ratings
32.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,014 ratings
33.
Magic for Beginners
Magic for Beginners 3.80 avg rating β€” 10,117 ratings
34.
Eat the Document
Eat the Document 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,918 ratings
35.
The Lazarus Project
The Lazarus Project 3.57 avg rating β€” 6,812 ratings
36.
Notes from No Man's Land
Notes from No Man's Land
by: Eula Biss
4.18 avg rating β€” 3,798 ratings
37.
How to be Both
How to be Both
by: Ali Smith
3.66 avg rating β€” 26,692 ratings
37.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating β€” 37,300 ratings
39.
Family Life
Family Life 3.53 avg rating β€” 9,860 ratings
39.
The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Broken Earth, #1-3)
The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Broken Earth, #1-3) 4.56 avg rating β€” 3,980 ratings
41.
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden 3.94 avg rating β€” 9,290 ratings
42.
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€” 16,454 ratings
43.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating β€” 194,236 ratings
44.
Red Clocks
Red Clocks 3.66 avg rating β€” 24,826 ratings
44.
Freedom
Freedom 3.79 avg rating β€” 173,386 ratings
46.
How Should a Person Be?
How Should a Person Be? 3.33 avg rating β€” 16,642 ratings
46.
Ghachar Ghochar
Ghachar Ghochar 3.89 avg rating β€” 17,792 ratings
48.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating β€” 50,122 ratings
49.
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers 3.51 avg rating β€” 23,697 ratings
50.
Erasure
Erasure 4.17 avg rating β€” 28,462 ratings
51.
Platform
Platform 3.81 avg rating β€” 25,019 ratings
52.
Do Everything in the Dark
Do Everything in the Dark 3.92 avg rating β€” 275 ratings
53.
Veronica
Veronica 3.43 avg rating β€” 7,560 ratings
54.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,001,575 ratings
55.
Ooga-Booga: Poems
Ooga-Booga: Poems 3.96 avg rating β€” 497 ratings
56.
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
57.
Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir
Lives Other than My Own: A Memoir 4.10 avg rating β€” 10,565 ratings
58.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating β€” 26,608 ratings
59.
Gone Girl
Gone Girl 4.14 avg rating β€” 3,358,202 ratings
60.
NW
NW 3.48 avg rating β€” 44,460 ratings
61.
White Girls
White Girls 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,182 ratings
62.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating β€” 50,751 ratings
63.
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
64.
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
65.
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€” 13,386 ratings
66.
The Time of Our Singing
The Time of Our Singing 4.26 avg rating β€” 4,147 ratings
67.
The Book of Salt
The Book of Salt 3.53 avg rating β€” 6,488 ratings
68.
Mortals
Mortals 3.78 avg rating β€” 602 ratings
69.
Home Land
Home Land 3.62 avg rating β€” 2,869 ratings
70.
Oblivion
Oblivion 4.07 avg rating β€” 15,563 ratings
71.
Honored Guest
Honored Guest 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,230 ratings
72.
The Sluts
The Sluts 3.78 avg rating β€” 8,467 ratings
73.
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€” 62,910 ratings
74.
The Afterlife
The Afterlife 3.57 avg rating β€” 633 ratings
75.
Wizard of the Crow
Wizard of the Crow 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,646 ratings
76.
American Genius
American Genius 3.75 avg rating β€” 291 ratings
77.
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City
Sleeping it Off in Rapid City 3.92 avg rating β€” 203 ratings
78.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating β€” 200,079 ratings
79.
Home (Gilead, #2)
Home (Gilead, #2) 4.04 avg rating β€” 29,638 ratings
80.
Fine Just the Way it Is
Fine Just the Way it Is 3.82 avg rating β€” 2,926 ratings
81.
Scenes from Provincial Life
Scenes from Provincial Life 4.13 avg rating β€” 552 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€” 41,495 ratings
84.
Seven Years
Seven Years 3.49 avg rating β€” 1,831 ratings
85.
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) 3.95 avg rating β€” 333,028 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€” 2,506 ratings
87.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 3.79 avg rating β€” 30,887 ratings
88.
Capital
Capital 3.71 avg rating β€” 14,539 ratings
89.
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena 4.12 avg rating β€” 55,461 ratings
90.
Taipei
Taipei
by: Tao Lin
3.33 avg rating β€” 7,867 ratings
91.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating β€” 27,659 ratings
92.
Preparation for the Next Life
Preparation for the Next Life 3.77 avg rating β€” 4,409 ratings
93.
Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer - For Fans (Trivia-on-Books)
Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer - For Fans (Trivia-on-Books) 3.75 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
94.
The Light of the World
The Light of the World 4.10 avg rating β€” 10,142 ratings
95.
What Belongs to You
What Belongs to You 3.78 avg rating β€” 14,934 ratings
96.
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
97.
The Needle's Eye
The Needle's Eye 4.01 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
98.
All Grown Up
All Grown Up 3.38 avg rating β€” 17,213 ratings
99.
The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do
by: Thi Bui
4.36 avg rating β€” 38,827 ratings
100.
Priestdaddy
Priestdaddy 3.86 avg rating β€” 25,271 ratings
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