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€” 1,568,944 ratings
2.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 227,546 ratings
3.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating β€” 433,363 ratings
4.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating β€” 1,726,758 ratings
5.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating β€” 657,124 ratings
6.
All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,803 ratings
7.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating β€” 401,553 ratings
8.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating β€” 209,883 ratings
9.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating β€” 30,647 ratings
10.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating β€” 161,169 ratings
11.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating β€” 200,098 ratings
12.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 259,646 ratings
13.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating β€” 23,802 ratings
14.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating β€” 552,004 ratings
15.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating β€” 813,352 ratings
16.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin 4.08 avg rating β€” 207,229 ratings
17.
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1) 3.95 avg rating β€” 19,704 ratings
18.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating β€” 67,304 ratings
19.
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) 3.74 avg rating β€” 151,350 ratings
20.
Small Island
Small Island 4.01 avg rating β€” 37,173 ratings
21.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating β€” 262,745 ratings
21.
The Interestings
The Interestings 3.60 avg rating β€” 122,193 ratings
23.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,020 ratings
24.
Mister Pip
Mister Pip 3.68 avg rating β€” 23,800 ratings
25.
The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating β€” 22,631 ratings
26.
West
West 3.71 avg rating β€” 6,400 ratings
27.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating β€” 274,977 ratings
28.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating β€” 194,260 ratings
29.
Home Fire
Home Fire 4.02 avg rating β€” 70,381 ratings
30.
Burial Rites
Burial Rites 4.04 avg rating β€” 121,018 ratings
31.
Train Dreams
Train Dreams 3.90 avg rating β€” 29,234 ratings
32.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating β€” 115,241 ratings
33.
Alone in Berlin
Alone in Berlin 4.27 avg rating β€” 35,344 ratings
34.
Conversations with Friends
Conversations with Friends 3.74 avg rating β€” 574,116 ratings
35.
The Secret River
The Secret River 3.81 avg rating β€” 24,635 ratings
36.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo 3.75 avg rating β€” 169,934 ratings
37.
The Neapolitan Novels
The Neapolitan Novels 4.56 avg rating β€” 6,850 ratings
38.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,001,806 ratings
39.
English Passengers
English Passengers 4.07 avg rating β€” 7,475 ratings
40.
Any Human Heart
Any Human Heart 4.27 avg rating β€” 26,014 ratings
41.
The Essex Serpent
The Essex Serpent 3.52 avg rating β€” 67,384 ratings
41.
Breath
Breath 3.91 avg rating β€” 24,821 ratings
43.
The Green Road
The Green Road 3.51 avg rating β€” 16,292 ratings
43.
Spies
Spies 3.55 avg rating β€” 6,332 ratings
45.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things 3.89 avg rating β€” 10,998 ratings
45.
How to Be Good
How to Be Good 3.22 avg rating β€” 57,453 ratings
47.
The Yellow Birds
The Yellow Birds 3.74 avg rating β€” 26,460 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€” 108,632 ratings
50.
Harvest
Harvest
by: Jim Crace
3.58 avg rating β€” 9,365 ratings
51.
Then We Came to the End
Then We Came to the End 3.46 avg rating β€” 36,031 ratings
52.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating β€” 244,173 ratings
53.
Hope: A Tragedy
Hope: A Tragedy 3.45 avg rating β€” 5,464 ratings
54.
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1) 4.06 avg rating β€” 60,130 ratings
55.
Disobedience
Disobedience 3.68 avg rating β€” 13,267 ratings
56.
Digging to America
Digging to America 3.59 avg rating β€” 23,217 ratings
57.
An Officer and a Spy
An Officer and a Spy 4.22 avg rating β€” 32,178 ratings
58.
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating β€” 1,279,756 ratings
58.
The Great Swindle
The Great Swindle 4.20 avg rating β€” 17,018 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€” 1,681,878 ratings
60.
The Palace of Illusions
The Palace of Illusions 4.20 avg rating β€” 61,988 ratings
63.
Star of the Sea
Star of the Sea 3.93 avg rating β€” 11,824 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€” 501,741 ratings
63.
Bright Young Women
Bright Young Women 3.99 avg rating β€” 205,978 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€” 158,211 ratings
68.
Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan 3.94 avg rating β€” 31,232 ratings
69.
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
by: Anonymous
2.72 avg rating β€” 70,693 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€” 30,213 ratings
70.
SUBMISSION
SUBMISSION 3.65 avg rating β€” 50,028 ratings
73.
Home
Home 3.83 avg rating β€” 27,297 ratings
73.
Golden Hill
Golden Hill 3.79 avg rating β€” 14,080 ratings
75.
The Year of the Runaways
The Year of the Runaways 3.87 avg rating β€” 10,238 ratings
76.
Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal 3.74 avg rating β€” 24,747 ratings
77.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating β€” 25,618 ratings
78.
All That Man Is
All That Man Is 3.66 avg rating β€” 9,261 ratings
79.
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers 3.81 avg rating β€” 48,966 ratings
80.
All My Puny Sorrows
All My Puny Sorrows 4.01 avg rating β€” 31,466 ratings
81.
Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday 3.69 avg rating β€” 17,911 ratings
82.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time 3.75 avg rating β€” 26,208 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€” 7,757 ratings
85.
NW
NW 3.48 avg rating β€” 44,469 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€” 3,458 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€” 10,056 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€” 743 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€” 121,020 ratings
93.
Stay with Me
Stay with Me 4.06 avg rating β€” 63,585 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€” 3,714 ratings
99.
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building 3.71 avg rating β€” 22,609 ratings
100.
Limonov
Limonov 4.12 avg rating β€” 14,804 ratings
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