1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die - 2000s

1.
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore 4.12 avg rating — 528,336 ratings
2.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,866 ratings
3.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating — 170,768 ratings
4.
The Blind Assassin
The Blind Assassin 3.96 avg rating — 161,173 ratings
5.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,489 ratings
6.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,038 ratings
7.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,250 ratings
8.
Snow
Snow 3.62 avg rating — 48,687 ratings
9.
The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending 3.74 avg rating — 188,399 ratings
10.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Elegance of the Hedgehog 3.80 avg rating — 195,825 ratings
11.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,465 ratings
12.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,569,022 ratings
13.
The Sea
The Sea 3.55 avg rating — 34,132 ratings
13.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,754 ratings
15.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating — 200,105 ratings
16.
Family Matters
Family Matters 4.03 avg rating — 24,363 ratings
17.
The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions 3.90 avg rating — 26,199 ratings
18.
The History of Love
The History of Love 3.92 avg rating — 139,285 ratings
19.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,268 ratings
20.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,023 ratings
21.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,138 ratings
21.
On Beauty
On Beauty 3.78 avg rating — 89,032 ratings
23.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,622 ratings
24.
Under the Skin
Under the Skin 3.75 avg rating — 28,721 ratings
25.
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 44,603 ratings
26.
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,332 ratings
27.
What I Loved
What I Loved 4.09 avg rating — 21,737 ratings
28.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating — 67,311 ratings
29.
The Blind Side of the Heart
The Blind Side of the Heart 3.48 avg rating — 2,328 ratings
30.
Islands
Islands 3.62 avg rating — 437 ratings
31.
Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello 3.48 avg rating — 9,925 ratings
31.
American Rust
American Rust 3.72 avg rating — 13,222 ratings
33.
The Gathering
The Gathering 3.14 avg rating — 25,676 ratings
34.
Drop City
Drop City 3.83 avg rating — 15,137 ratings
35.
Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 182,771 ratings
36.
Youth
Youth 3.78 avg rating — 8,124 ratings
36.
A Tale of Love and Darkness
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by: Amos Oz
4.23 avg rating — 12,548 ratings
38.
2666
2666 4.21 avg rating — 46,708 ratings
39.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,648 ratings
40.
The Swarm
The Swarm 4.10 avg rating — 29,064 ratings
41.
Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2)
Shroud (The Cleave Trilogy #2) 3.67 avg rating — 1,529 ratings
42.
Saturday
Saturday 3.64 avg rating — 72,558 ratings
43.
Gabriel's Gift
Gabriel's Gift 3.29 avg rating — 1,597 ratings
44.
The Devil and Miss Prym
The Devil and Miss Prym 3.62 avg rating — 73,513 ratings
45.
Platform
Platform 3.81 avg rating — 25,024 ratings
45.
At Swim, Two Boys
At Swim, Two Boys 4.11 avg rating — 9,623 ratings
45.
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad 3.70 avg rating — 244,186 ratings
48.
The Heart of Redness
The Heart of Redness
by: Zakes Mda
3.72 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
49.
The Feast of the Goat
The Feast of the Goat 4.34 avg rating — 40,764 ratings
50.
After the Quake
After the Quake 3.77 avg rating — 57,221 ratings
51.
The Namesake
The Namesake 4.02 avg rating — 280,167 ratings
52.
The Stranger's Child
The Stranger's Child 3.33 avg rating — 11,760 ratings
53.
The Children's Book
The Children's Book 3.68 avg rating — 18,832 ratings
54.
There But For The
There But For The
by: Ali Smith
3.50 avg rating — 9,880 ratings
55.
Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little 3.61 avg rating — 33,418 ratings
55.
Against the Day
Against the Day 4.05 avg rating — 10,020 ratings
57.
The Book About Blanche and Marie
The Book About Blanche and Marie 3.36 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
58.
Freedom
Freedom 3.79 avg rating — 173,404 ratings
59.
Home (Gilead, #2)
Home (Gilead, #2) 4.04 avg rating — 29,641 ratings
60.
Thursbitch
Thursbitch 3.66 avg rating — 971 ratings
61.
The Light of Day
The Light of Day 3.35 avg rating — 3,113 ratings
61.
The Red Queen
The Red Queen 3.17 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
63.
The Master
The Master 3.84 avg rating — 11,589 ratings
64.
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point 3.89 avg rating — 1,440 ratings
65.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,989 ratings
66.
London Orbital
London Orbital 3.68 avg rating — 833 ratings
66.
Adjunct: An Undigest
Adjunct: An Undigest 2.91 avg rating — 184 ratings
68.
The Colour
The Colour 3.86 avg rating — 6,444 ratings
69.
The Double
The Double 3.97 avg rating — 24,021 ratings
70.
Unless
Unless 3.63 avg rating — 16,938 ratings
71.
The Story of Lucy Gault
The Story of Lucy Gault 3.77 avg rating — 7,820 ratings
72.
That They May Face the Rising Sun
That They May Face the Rising Sun 4.03 avg rating — 3,173 ratings
72.
Measuring the World
Measuring the World 3.73 avg rating — 21,345 ratings
74.
In the Forest
In the Forest 3.63 avg rating — 1,814 ratings
75.
Dead Air
Dead Air 3.55 avg rating — 6,410 ratings
76.
Nowhere Man
Nowhere Man 3.70 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
77.
Schooling
Schooling 3.15 avg rating — 359 ratings
78.
Don't Move
Don't Move 3.81 avg rating — 9,276 ratings
79.
The Body Artist
The Body Artist 3.29 avg rating — 12,083 ratings
80.
Fury
Fury 3.30 avg rating — 9,380 ratings
81.
Choke
Choke 3.71 avg rating — 218,466 ratings
82.
The Marriage Plot
The Marriage Plot 3.47 avg rating — 123,514 ratings
83.
An Obedient Father
An Obedient Father 3.34 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
84.
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost 3.26 avg rating — 1,273 ratings
85.
Ignorance
Ignorance 3.81 avg rating — 26,967 ratings
86.
Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)
Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 3,538 ratings
87.
Celestial Harmonies
Celestial Harmonies 3.85 avg rating — 666 ratings
88.
City of God
City of God 3.40 avg rating — 2,866 ratings
89.
How the Dead Live
How the Dead Live
by: Will Self
3.57 avg rating — 2,938 ratings
90.
Small Remedies
Small Remedies 3.73 avg rating — 316 ratings
91.
Super-Cannes
Super-Cannes 3.72 avg rating — 4,990 ratings
92.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,515 ratings
93.
Blonde
Blonde 3.93 avg rating — 16,752 ratings
94.
Pastoralia
Pastoralia 4.07 avg rating — 25,646 ratings
95.
The Successor
The Successor 3.50 avg rating — 1,318 ratings
96.
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Your face tomorrow, #1-3)
Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear / Dance and Dream / Poison, Shadow, and Farewell (Your face tomorrow, #1-3) 4.32 avg rating — 597 ratings
97.
I'm Not Scared
I'm Not Scared 3.90 avg rating — 33,392 ratings
98.
Soldiers of Salamis
Soldiers of Salamis 3.85 avg rating — 13,339 ratings
99.
Bartleby & Co.
Bartleby & Co. 3.93 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
100.
Nemesis
Nemesis 3.86 avg rating — 17,819 ratings
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