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The Guardian's 100 best books of the 21st century

Description: "Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century

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1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

43,299 members

1,750 reviews

4

10 Members: aprille, anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, HxBuff, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda, Brandy1411

2

by Gillian Flynn

22,225 members

1,545 reviews

3.9

9 Members: aprille, anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, steller0707

3

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,850 members

415 reviews

4.2

8 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, Charon07

4

by Hilary Mantel

13,580 members

653 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, NinieB

5

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

44,444 members

1,333 reviews

3.9

8 Members: anglemark, timtom, Cecrow, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

by Marilynne Robinson

10,844 members

364 reviews

3.9

6 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

7

by Sarah Waters

7,870 members

287 reviews

4.1

7 Members: kathipink, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707, Charon07

8

Cloud Atlas: A Novel

by David Mitchell

17,778 members

684 reviews

4.1

7 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707, Charon07

9

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

102,826 members

886 reviews

½ 4.4

7 Members: anglemark, timtom, Cecrow, Kristelh, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB,ManWithAnAgenda

10

by Margaret Atwood

17,011 members

538 reviews

3.9

7 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707, Charon07

11

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,092 members

365 reviews

4.2

7 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707, Brandy1411

12

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,993 members

941 reviews

3.8

6 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

13

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

8,302 members

593 reviews

4

7 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

14

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

9,030 members

455 reviews

4

7 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

15

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan

13,931 members

351 reviews

4.2

7 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, gypsysmom, steller0707

16

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7,805 members

370 reviews

½ 4.4

6 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

17

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

6,939 members

297 reviews

4.2

6 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707

18

26,571 members

629 reviews

3.9

6 Members: anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, Charon07

19

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

14,718 members

743 reviews

4.2

6 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, steller0707

20

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

8,184 members

368 reviews

4.2

6 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, timtom, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

21

by Cormac McCarthy

34,576 members

1,407 reviews

4.1

5 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, Lauren_Shriver

22

by Stephen King

18,652 members

517 reviews

4.2

5 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, Cecrow, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda

23

20,244 members

692 reviews

4

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

23,669 members

409 reviews

4

4 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

25

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

8,643 members

515 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, ahef1963, kara.shamy, steller0707

26

by Hanya Yanagihara

7,656 members

330 reviews

4.1

5 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh, kara.shamy, steller0707

27

Stories of Your Life and Others

5,143 members

233 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, ManWithAnAgenda

28

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,259 members

79 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

29

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

8,531 members

322 reviews

4.2

5 Members: anglemark, timtom, Kristelh, ahef1963, steller0707

30

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,643 members

342 reviews

3.8

4 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

31

1,886 members

107 reviews

½ 3.7

5 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, steller0707

32

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

11,857 members

227 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, HxBuff

33

by Terry Pratchett

11,300 members

166 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

2,060 members

105 reviews

3.9

4 Members: anglemark, kara.shamy, steller0707, Charon07

35

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,036 members

69 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, steller0707

36

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

3,220 members

177 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, HxBuff, ahef1963

37

The Plot Against America

8,972 members

218 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh, kara.shamy

38

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

10,926 members

212 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Lauren_Shriver

39

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

5,064 members

197 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963, steller0707

40

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

2,791 members

141 reviews

3.9

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707, Charon07

41

The Year of Magical Thinking

10,324 members

292 reviews

3.8

4 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, ahef1963, steller0707

42

Capital in the 21st Century

by Thomas Piketty

3,864 members

73 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, HxBuff

43

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

4,600 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh, kara.shamy

44

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

1,623 members

62 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

45

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

3,014 members

45 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, makuku

46

My Brilliant Friend: Neapolitan Novels, Book One

by Elena Ferrante

7,205 members

322 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, kara.shamy, steller0707

47

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

5,403 members

129 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

48

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

5,529 members

130 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

49

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

12,543 members

382 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

50

by Maggie Nelson

1,663 members

79 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

51

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

16,950 members

367 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, HxBuff

52

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

3,835 members

185 reviews

4

3 Members: anglemark, kara.shamy, steller0707

53

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

3,654 members

163 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

54

My Struggle: Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgård

2,844 members

112 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

55

by Sally Rooney

6,969 members

276 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

56

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

3,045 members

72 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom

57

by Seamus Heaney

419 members

13 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

58

4,009 members

140 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

59

by Anne Enright

992 members

66 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom

60

13,681 members

248 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, steller0707

61

The Silence of the Girls

2,420 members

104 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

62

by Colm Tóibín

5,300 members

296 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh

63

The Constant Gardener

by John le Carré

5,209 members

87 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

64

Chronicles: Volume One

4,409 members

71 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

65

Days without End

by Sebastian Barry

1,298 members

80 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

66

by Edward St. Aubyn

865 members

36 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh

67

Women & Power: A Manifesto

1,343 members

50 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

68

1,074 members

71 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

69

by Helen Dunmore

1,010 members

51 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

70

by W. G. Sebald

4,145 members

101 reviews

4.2

2 Members: anglemark, Kristelh

71

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

by Shoshana Zuboff

1,523 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: hipdeep, anglemark

72

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

by Andrew Solomon

2,546 members

37 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

73

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund De Waal

3,682 members

159 reviews

4

2 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom

74

by Carol Ann Duffy

392 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

75

1,243 members

12 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

76

by Julian Barnes

1,064 members

71 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

77

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

2,109 members

102 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

78

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane

1,687 members

55 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

79

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

21,819 members

331 reviews

3.8

2 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom

80

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

717 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

81

by Alice Oswald

221 members

3 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

82

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

by Helen Garner

313 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

83

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

2,420 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

84

The Infatuations

by Javier Marías

1,161 members

52 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

85

Notes on a Scandal

3,090 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

86

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

3,228 members

59 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

87

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

by Richard Wilkinson

1,378 members

46 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

88

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

by Valeria Luiselli

660 members

28 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

89

Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment

by Yanis Varoufakis

447 members

15 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

90

Noughts and Crosses

by Malorie Blackman

2,231 members

69 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

91

Bad Blood: A Memoir

747 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

92

by Jenny Erpenbeck

697 members

47 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

93

by M. John Harrison

2,057 members

61 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

94

by Nicola Barker

959 members

24 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

95

by Alain Mabanckou

242 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

96

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

3,454 members

156 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

97

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,136 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: anglemark

98

Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera

791 members

30 reviews

3.9

Member: anglemark

99

The Cost of Living

by Deborah Levy

492 members

20 reviews

4

Member: anglemark

100

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

by Patricia Lockwood

1,000 members

56 reviews

3.9

Member: anglemark

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