The Sunday Times 100 21st-Century Novels to Love

1.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating β€” 1,568,713 ratings
2.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 227,510 ratings
3.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating β€” 433,278 ratings
4.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,726,531 ratings
5.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating β€” 657,086 ratings
6.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,441 ratings
7.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating β€” 401,464 ratings
8.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,866 ratings
9.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating β€” 30,642 ratings
10.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating β€” 161,162 ratings
11.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating β€” 200,080 ratings
12.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 259,593 ratings
13.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating β€” 23,797 ratings
14.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 551,947 ratings
15.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 813,124 ratings
16.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin 4.08 avg rating β€” 207,199 ratings
17.
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1) 3.95 avg rating β€” 19,701 ratings
18.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating β€” 67,293 ratings
19.
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 151,296 ratings
20.
Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating β€” 37,169 ratings
21.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating β€” 262,708 ratings
21.
The Interestings
The Interestings 3.60 avg rating β€” 122,188 ratings
23.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,015 ratings
24.
Mister Pip
Mister Pip 3.68 avg rating β€” 23,797 ratings
25.
The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating β€” 22,627 ratings
26.
West
West 3.71 avg rating β€” 6,397 ratings
27.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating β€” 274,946 ratings
28.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating β€” 194,239 ratings
29.
Home Fire
Home Fire 4.02 avg rating β€” 70,378 ratings
30.
Burial Rites
Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating β€” 120,995 ratings
31.
Train Dreams
Train Dreams 3.90 avg rating β€” 29,220 ratings
32.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating β€” 115,226 ratings
33.
Alone in Berlin
Alone in Berlin 4.27 avg rating β€” 35,336 ratings
34.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends 3.74 avg rating β€” 573,922 ratings
35.
The Secret River
The Secret River 3.81 avg rating β€” 24,633 ratings
36.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo 3.75 avg rating β€” 169,906 ratings
37.
The Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels 4.56 avg rating β€” 6,846 ratings
38.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,001,614 ratings
39.
English Passengers
English Passengers 4.07 avg rating β€” 7,473 ratings
40.
Any Human Heart
Any Human Heart 4.27 avg rating β€” 26,010 ratings
41.
The Essex Serpent
The Essex Serpent 3.52 avg rating β€” 67,373 ratings
41.
Breath
Breath 3.91 avg rating β€” 24,819 ratings
43.
The Green Road
The Green Road 3.51 avg rating β€” 16,291 ratings
43.
Spies
Spies 3.55 avg rating β€” 6,330 ratings
45.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things 3.89 avg rating β€” 10,997 ratings
45.
How to Be Good
How to Be Good 3.22 avg rating β€” 57,451 ratings
47.
The Yellow Birds
The Yellow Birds 3.74 avg rating β€” 26,457 ratings
48.
God's Own Country
God's Own Country 3.48 avg rating β€” 1,731 ratings
49.
Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin 3.96 avg rating β€” 108,624 ratings
50.
Harvest
Harvest
by: Jim Crace
3.58 avg rating β€” 9,363 ratings
51.
Then We Came to the End
Then We Came to the End 3.46 avg rating β€” 36,028 ratings
52.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating β€” 244,141 ratings
53.
Hope: A Tragedy
Hope: A Tragedy 3.45 avg rating β€” 5,463 ratings
54.
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 4.06 avg rating β€” 60,124 ratings
55.
Disobedience
Disobedience 3.68 avg rating β€” 13,262 ratings
56.
Digging to America
Digging to America 3.59 avg rating β€” 23,214 ratings
57.
An Officer and a Spy
An Officer and a Spy 4.22 avg rating β€” 32,174 ratings
58.
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,279,500 ratings
58.
The Great Swindle
The Great Swindle 4.20 avg rating β€” 17,012 ratings
60.
The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey: In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and the footprint of HS2
The Country of Larks: A Chiltern Journey: In the footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson and the footprint of HS2 3.89 avg rating β€” 63 ratings
60.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns 4.45 avg rating β€” 1,681,580 ratings
60.
The Palace of Illusions
The Palace of Illusions 4.20 avg rating β€” 61,967 ratings
63.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea 3.93 avg rating β€” 11,820 ratings
63.
Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3)
Darkmans (Thames Gateway, #3) 3.65 avg rating β€” 2,417 ratings
63.
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life...
Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life... 3.87 avg rating β€” 501,702 ratings
63.
Bright Young Women
Bright Young Women 3.99 avg rating β€” 205,805 ratings
63.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1) 3.64 avg rating β€” 158,038 ratings
68.
Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan 3.94 avg rating β€” 31,228 ratings
69.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
by: Anonymous
2.72 avg rating β€” 70,659 ratings
70.
The Forgiven
The Forgiven 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,032 ratings
70.
The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardener 3.83 avg rating β€” 30,204 ratings
70.
SUBMISSION
SUBMISSION 3.65 avg rating β€” 50,021 ratings
73.
Home
Home 3.83 avg rating β€” 27,289 ratings
73.
Golden Hill
Golden Hill 3.79 avg rating β€” 14,079 ratings
75.
The Year of the Runaways
The Year of the Runaways 3.87 avg rating β€” 10,236 ratings
76.
Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal 3.74 avg rating β€” 24,742 ratings
77.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating β€” 25,607 ratings
78.
All That Man Is
All That Man Is 3.66 avg rating β€” 9,259 ratings
79.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 3.81 avg rating β€” 48,948 ratings
80.
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating β€” 31,461 ratings
81.
Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday 3.69 avg rating β€” 17,912 ratings
82.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time 3.75 avg rating β€” 26,205 ratings
83.
Legend of a Suicide
Legend of a Suicide 3.72 avg rating β€” 3,911 ratings
84.
Late in the Day
Late in the Day 3.39 avg rating β€” 7,755 ratings
85.
NW
NW 3.48 avg rating β€” 44,461 ratings
86.
All Families are Psychotic
All Families are Psychotic 3.70 avg rating β€” 14,621 ratings
87.
Arlington Park
Arlington Park 3.23 avg rating β€” 3,457 ratings
88.
Daughters of Jerusalem
Daughters of Jerusalem 3.40 avg rating β€” 415 ratings
89.
The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest 3.69 avg rating β€” 10,057 ratings
90.
You Don't Have to Live Like This
You Don't Have to Live Like This liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 742 ratings
91.
The Son
The Son 4.03 avg rating β€” 37,217 ratings
92.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating β€” 121,009 ratings
93.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,579 ratings
94.
Midwinter Break
Midwinter Break 3.62 avg rating β€” 5,307 ratings
95.
The Siege (The Siege, #1)
The Siege (The Siege, #1) 4.03 avg rating β€” 6,883 ratings
96.
The Book of the Heathen: A Novel of the Congo
The Book of the Heathen: A Novel of the Congo 3.30 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
97.
I'll Go to Bed at Noon (The Jones Trilogy, #2)
I'll Go to Bed at Noon (The Jones Trilogy, #2) 3.75 avg rating β€” 561 ratings
98.
All for Nothing
All for Nothing 3.99 avg rating β€” 3,713 ratings
99.
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating β€” 22,608 ratings
100.
Limonov
Limonov 4.12 avg rating β€” 14,796 ratings
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