Vulture's the Best 100 Books of the Century

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The Last Samurai (2000) by Helen DeWitt
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The White Tiger (2008) by Aravind Adiga
The Light of the World: A Memoir (2015) by Elizabeth Alexander
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) by Svetlana Alexievich
The Afterlife (2006) by Donald Antrim
All Grown Up (2017) by Jami Attenberg
The MaddAddam Trilogy: Oryx and Crake; The Year of the Flood; Maddaddam (2013) by Margaret Atwood
The Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010) by Elif Batuman
The Sellout (2015) by Paul Beatty
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (2010) by Aimee Bender
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays (2009) by Eula Biss
2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017) by Thi Bui
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey
Lives Other Than My Own (2009) by Emmanuel Carrère
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001) by Anne Carson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
Scenes from Provincial Life: Boyhood, Youth, Summertime (2011) by J. M. Coetzee
The Sluts (2004) by Dennis Cooper
Outline (2014) by Rachel Cusk
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) by Junot Díaz
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001) by Louise Erdrich
Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Erasure (2001) by Percival Everett
The Neapolitan Novels (1888) by Elena Ferrante
Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012) by Ben Fountain
The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
Veronica (2005) by Mary Gaitskill
What Belongs to You (2016) by Garth Greenwell
Asymmetry (2018) by Lisa Halliday
The Lazarus Project (2008) by Aleksandar Hemon
How Should a Person Be? (2010) by Sheila Heti
The Line of Beauty (2004) by Alan Hollinghurst
Platform (2001) by Michel Houellebecq
The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth (2016) by Fanny Howe
Do Everything in the Dark: A Novel (2003) by Gary Indiana
Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) by Marlon James
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky (2017) by N. K. Jemisin
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories (2018) by Denis Johnson
The Known World (2003) by Edward P. Jones
Spreadeagle: A Novel (2010) by Kevin Killian
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected (1656) by August Kleinzahler
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love (2013) by Karl Ove Knausgård
The Flamethrowers (2013) by Rachel Kushner
Capital (2012) by John Lanchester
Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) by Ben Lerner
Magic for Beginners (2002) by Kelly Link
Taipei (2013) by Tao Lin
Home Land (2004) by Sam Lipsyte
Preparation for the Next Life (2014) by Atticus Lish
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017) by Patricia Lockwood
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017) by Valeria Luiselli
Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantel
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (2013) by Anthony Marra
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being) (2017) by Fred Moten
1Q84 (2009) by Haruki Murakami
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada (The Library of America) (2016) by Albert Murray
The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson
Suite Française (2004) by Irène Némirovsky
The Sympathizer (2015) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Dept. of Speculation (2014) by Jenny Offill
Mr. Fox (2011) by Helen Oyeyemi
The Time of Our Singing (2003) by Richard Powers
Fine Just the Way It Is (2008) by Annie Proulx
The Amber Spyglass (2000) by Philip Pullman
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine
Home (2008) by Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America (2004) by Philip Roth
Harry Potter (Books 1-7) (2007) by J. K. Rowling
Mortals (2003) by Norman Rush
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination (2012) by Sarah Schulman
Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald
Ooga-Booga: Poems (2006) by Frederick Seidel
Ghachar Ghochar (2013) by Vivek Shanbhag
Family Life (2014) by Akhil Sharma
Super Sad True Love Story (2010) by Gary Shteyngart
How to Be Both (2014) by Ali Smith
NW (2012) by Zadie Smith
Eat the Document (2006) by Dana Spiotta
Seven Years (2009) by Peter Stamm
The Goldfinch (2013) by Donna Tartt
Wizard of the Crow (2006) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
The Hate U Give (2017) by Angie Thomas
American Genius: A Comedy (2006) by Lynne Tillman
All My Puny Sorrows (2014) by Miriam Toews
The Book of Salt (2003) by Monique Truong
Oblivion (2004) by David Foster Wallace
Men We Reaped (2013) by Jesmyn Ward
Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
Zone One (2011) by Colson Whitehead
Honored Guest: Stories (2004) by Joy Williams
Winter's Bone (2006) by Daniel Woodrell
Red Clocks (2018) by Leni Zumas

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