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

  1. Demon Copperhead: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver
    4.7
  2. Pachinko Min Jin Lee
    4.3
  3. Trust: the dazzling twisty story of power, greed and love that begins in 1920s New York Hernan Diaz
    4.2
  4. Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
    4
  5. Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    4.5
  6. The Road Cormac McCarthy
    4.2
  7. Stay True: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir Hua Hsu
    3.9
  8. Erasure: now a major motion picture 'American Fiction' Percival Everett
    4.4
  9. The Underground Railroad: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 Colson Whitehead
    4.1
  10. We the Animals Justin D. Torres
    3.8
  11. Tenth of December George Saunders
    3.9
  12. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
    4.3
  13. When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamin Labatut
    4.1
  14. A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James
    4.1
  15. An American Marriage: A Novel Tayari Jones
    3.9
  16. Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine
    4
  17. The Years Annie Ernaux
    4.2
  18. Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor
    3.5
  19. Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland Patrick Radden Keefe
    4.5
  20. Septology Jon Fosse
    4
  21. The Line of Beauty: Winner of the Man Booker Prize Alan Hollinghurst
    3.5
  22. All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories Edward P. Jones
    1
  23. Bring up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
    4.4
  24. The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
    4.2
  25. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
    4.2
  26. Bel Canto Ann Patchett
    4.1
  27. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander
    4.4
  28. H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald
    4.3
  29. My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante
    4.2
  30. The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante
    4.2
  31. The Argonauts Maggie Nelson
    4.4
  32. The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
    4.5
  33. 2666: A Novel Roberto Bolaño
    4
  34. The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño
    3.6