The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: Turning Points in Modern Literature
These books highlight a range of themes from identity and history to resilience and social justice, with both fiction and non-fiction works making an impact in the 21st century
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My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Known World – Edward P. Jones
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
2666 – Roberto Bolaño
The Underground Railroad – Colson Whitehead
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz
The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
Outline – Rachel Cusk
Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
The Sellout – Paul Beatty
Lincoln in the Bardo – George Saunders
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe
Erasure – Percival Everett
Evicted – Matthew Desmond
Behind the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage – Alice Munro
The Overstory – Richard Powers
Random Family – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Atonement – Ian McEwan
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
The Last Samurai – Helen Dewitt
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
Salvage the Bones – Jesmyn Ward
Citizen – Claudia Rankine
Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Years – Annie Ernaux
The Savage Detectives – Roberto Bolaño
A Visit From the Goon Squad – Jennifer Egan
H Is for Hawk – Helen MacDonald
The Vegetarian – Han Kang
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander
Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson
A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 – Lawrence Wright
Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
The Argonauts – Maggie Nelson
2666 – Roberto Bolaño
Normal People – Sally Rooney
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – Michael Chabon
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
The Sellout – Paul Beatty
Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Say Nothing – Patrick Radden Keefe
Fun Home – Alison Bechdel
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
10:04 – Ben Lerner
Veronica – Mary Gaitskill
The Great Believers – Rebecca Makkai
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
We the Animals – Justin Torres
Far From the Tree – Andrew Solomon
The Friend – Sigrid Nunez
The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
All Aunt Hagar’s Children – Edward P. Jones
The Copenhagen Trilogy – Tove Ditlevsen
Secondhand Time – Svetlana Alexievich
The Passage of Power – Robert Caro
Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout
Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
Septology – Jon Fosse
A Manual for Cleaning Women – Lucia Berlin
The Story of the Lost Child – Elena Ferrante
Pulphead – John Jeremiah Sullivan
Hurricane Season – Fernanda Melchor
When We Cease to Understand the World – Benjamín Labatut
