Top 100 Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times

  1. Demon Copperhead: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver
    4.6
  2. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    4.2
  3. The Road Cormac McCarthy
    4.2
  4. Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    4.5
  5. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
    4.3
  6. The Underground Railroad: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Colson Whitehead
    4.1
  7. When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut
    4.1
  8. The Years Annie Ernaux
    4.2
  9. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.5
  10. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
    4.3
  11. The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante
    4.2
  12. The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
    4.5
  13. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4
  14. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
    4.3
  15. A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
    4.1
  16. An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones
    3.9
  17. Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine
    4
  18. Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor
    4
  19. Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir Hua Hsu
    3.8
  20. Septology Jon Fosse
    4
  21. The Line of Beauty: Winner of the Man Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst
    3.5
  22. Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction' Percival Everett
    4.3
  23. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories Edward P. Jones
    1.5
  24. Bring up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
    4.4
  25. The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
    4.2
  26. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
    4.2
  27. Bel Canto Ann Patchett
    4.1
  28. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
    4.3
  29. We the Animals Justin D. Torres
    3.8
  30. H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald
    4.2
  31. The Argonauts Maggie Nelson
    4.3
  32. Tenth of December George Saunders
    3.8
  33. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolaño
    3.9
  34. The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
    3.6