NYT The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

1.
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 435,383 ratings
2.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,080 ratings
3.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,357 ratings
4.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,192 ratings
5.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,575 ratings
6.
The Goldfinch
The Goldfinch 3.96 avg rating — 1,010,413 ratings
7.
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 704,688 ratings
8.
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These 4.13 avg rating — 349,920 ratings
9.
The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad 4.06 avg rating — 433,265 ratings
10.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,703 ratings
11.
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 224,914 ratings
12.
Pachinko
Pachinko 4.34 avg rating — 582,467 ratings
13.
The Overstory
The Overstory 4.12 avg rating — 185,914 ratings
14.
Americanah
Americanah 4.31 avg rating — 401,446 ratings
15.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,932 ratings
16.
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 227,497 ratings
17.
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 102,593 ratings
18.
Lincoln in the Bardo
Lincoln in the Bardo 3.75 avg rating — 169,898 ratings
19.
The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian
by: Han Kang
3.64 avg rating — 320,148 ratings
20.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,136 ratings
21.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 4.18 avg rating — 209,866 ratings
22.
Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,336 ratings
23.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,354 ratings
24.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,906 ratings
25.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,236 ratings
26.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,077 ratings
27.
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4)
The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4) 4.46 avg rating — 168,830 ratings
28.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,123 ratings
29.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,943 ratings
30.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating — 148,980 ratings
31.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,096 ratings
32.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating — 170,732 ratings
33.
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 259,583 ratings
34.
When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World 4.11 avg rating — 56,486 ratings
35.
On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,013 ratings
36.
The Years
The Years 4.17 avg rating — 41,771 ratings
37.
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 132,968 ratings
38.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,604 ratings
39.
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 237,968 ratings
40.
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets 4.46 avg rating — 20,847 ratings
40.
Erasure
Erasure 4.17 avg rating — 28,459 ratings
42.
Trust
Trust 3.81 avg rating — 154,188 ratings
43.
An American Marriage
An American Marriage 3.93 avg rating — 379,490 ratings
44.
The Sellout
The Sellout 3.75 avg rating — 73,383 ratings
45.
Exit West
Exit West 3.74 avg rating — 148,006 ratings
46.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,914 ratings
47.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 4.52 avg rating — 115,034 ratings
48.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,272 ratings
49.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,692 ratings
50.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,350 ratings
51.
The Days of Abandonment
The Days of Abandonment 3.87 avg rating — 54,885 ratings
52.
The Friend
The Friend 3.74 avg rating — 54,675 ratings
53.
Tenth of December
Tenth of December 3.98 avg rating — 80,030 ratings
53.
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Gilead (Gilead, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 121,009 ratings
55.
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories 4.19 avg rating — 35,020 ratings
56.
Outline
Outline 3.67 avg rating — 65,966 ratings
57.
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 44,591 ratings
58.
Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby 3.93 avg rating — 88,700 ratings
59.
The Known World
The Known World 3.84 avg rating — 44,316 ratings
60.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating — 67,292 ratings
61.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,640 ratings
62.
Citizen: An American Lyric
Citizen: An American Lyric 4.26 avg rating — 50,751 ratings
63.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,635 ratings
64.
How to be Both
How to be Both
by: Ali Smith
3.66 avg rating — 26,692 ratings
64.
Heavy
Heavy 4.47 avg rating — 43,656 ratings
66.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,104 ratings
67.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 3.65 avg rating — 194,442 ratings
68.
The Great Believers
The Great Believers 4.29 avg rating — 161,724 ratings
69.
Train Dreams
Train Dreams 3.90 avg rating — 29,214 ratings
70.
A Brief History of Seven Killings
A Brief History of Seven Killings 3.89 avg rating — 37,300 ratings
71.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories 4.02 avg rating — 22,464 ratings
72.
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom 4.17 avg rating — 12,340 ratings
73.
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4) 4.40 avg rating — 19,288 ratings
74.
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity 4.27 avg rating — 22,183 ratings
75.
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by: Tony Judt
4.38 avg rating — 13,387 ratings
76.
Stay True
Stay True
by: Hua Hsu
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43,554 ratings
77.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,641 ratings
78.
Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,361 ratings
79.
The Last Samurai
The Last Samurai 4.11 avg rating — 10,901 ratings
80.
H is for Hawk
H is for Hawk 3.74 avg rating — 78,916 ratings
81.
A Mercy
A Mercy 3.76 avg rating — 31,911 ratings
82.
The Savage Detectives
The Savage Detectives 4.17 avg rating — 50,122 ratings
83.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,809 ratings
84.
Tree of Smoke
Tree of Smoke 3.60 avg rating — 14,874 ratings
85.
Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
by: Jon Fosse
4.49 avg rating — 1,901 ratings
86.
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3) 4.36 avg rating — 21,417 ratings
87.
10:04
10:04 3.77 avg rating — 15,276 ratings
88.
We the Animals
We the Animals 3.73 avg rating — 25,948 ratings
89.
Salvage the Bones
Salvage the Bones 3.96 avg rating — 71,431 ratings
90.
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 4.24 avg rating — 6,877 ratings
91.
Hurricane Season
Hurricane Season 4.05 avg rating — 43,003 ratings
92.
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer 4.34 avg rating — 111,137 ratings
93.
The Return
The Return 4.16 avg rating — 14,614 ratings
94.
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories 3.82 avg rating — 2,386 ratings
95.
The Flamethrowers
The Flamethrowers 3.51 avg rating — 23,697 ratings
96.
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Men We Reaped: A Memoir 4.30 avg rating — 27,659 ratings
96.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals 4.43 avg rating — 4,693 ratings
97.
Pulphead
Pulphead really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,970 ratings
98.
Veronica
Veronica 3.43 avg rating — 7,560 ratings
99.
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx 4.26 avg rating — 13,311 ratings