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NYT 100 Best of the 21st Century · Critics
Critics' picks for the 100 best books of the 21st century, surveyed by The New York Times Book Review.
100 books·Curio catalog
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Stay True
Hua Hsu
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
Septology
Jon Fosse
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
The Copenhagen Trilogy
Tove Ditlevsen
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Years
Annie Ernaux
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich
The Return
Hisham Matar
Outline
Rachel Cusk
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
Between the World and Me
Ta-nehisi Coates
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Citizen: an American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
10:04
Ben Lerner
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Tenth of December
George Saunders
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
Far From the Tree
Andrew Solomon
The Passage of Power
Robert A. Caro
Bring up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
We the Animals
Justin Torres
Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
2666
Roberto Bolaño
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
The Road
Cormac Mccarthy
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Postwar
Tony Judt
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
Runaway
Alice Munro
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
Random Family
Adrian Nicole Leblanc
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Atonement
Ian Mcewan
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald
Erasure
Percival Everett
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
The Last Samurai
Helen Dewitt
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
Pastoralia
George Saunders
The Human Stain
Philip Roth