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Vulture's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

Type: Preset list created by Nexpixel

Members: 5 participating members (show all)

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1
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
16,331 members, 345 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 11.66

2
Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowling
75 members, 3 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 9.81

3
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
1,242 members, 48 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), hipdeep (1), Nexpixel (56)

Score: 9.46

4
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
10,008 members, 564 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 8.5

5
Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
23,839 members, 565 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 7.35

6
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
10,729 members, 416 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 6.72

7
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
15,607 members, 1,296 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 6.43

8
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
9,616 members, 612 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 6.22

9
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
3,593 members, 68 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (10), kara.shamy (18), Nexpixel (43)

Score: 5.75

10
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
6,555 members, 246 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

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Score: 5.64

11
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
17,955 members, 807 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 5.5

12
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
7,974 members, 374 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 5.45

13
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected
by August Kleinzahler
80 members, 1 review
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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Score: 5.41

14
The Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
859 members, 41 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 5.38

15
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
4,215 members, 227 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 5.13

16
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
2,838 members, 131 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 5.11

17
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
1,945 members, 87 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Score: 4.87

18
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
924 members, 63 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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Score: 4.71

19
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
22,683 members, 572 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 4.51

20
The Flamethrowers
by Rachel Kushner
1,143 members, 74 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (8), Nexpixel (14)

Score: 4.45

21
The Neapolitan Novels
by Elena Ferrante
34 members, 2 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 4.34

22
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
8,118 members, 237 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 4.26

23
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
7,461 members, 170 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 4.14

24
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
3,951 members, 105 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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Score: 4.02

25
The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt
1,427 members, 43 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 4

26
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
13,982 members, 444 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

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Score: 3.72

27
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
1,238 members, 104 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

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Score: 3.62

28
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
823 members, 56 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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Score: 3.58

29
The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
19,378 members, 331 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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Score: 3.57

30
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
8,548 members, 316 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 3.54

31
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
27,859 members, 1,271 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 3.48

32
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
14,559 members, 313 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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Score: 3.36

33
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
6,424 members, 467 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (21), Nexpixel (74)

Score: 3.23

34
How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,037 members, 37 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (22), Nexpixel (84)

Score: 3.17

35
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
1,717 members, 76 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (23), Nexpixel (85)

Score: 3.14

36
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
1,975 members, 93 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (24), Nexpixel (87)

Score: 3.12

37
What Belongs to You: A Novel
by Garth Greenwell
415 members, 13 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (25), Nexpixel (90)

Score: 3.09

38
Ghachar Ghochar: A Novel
by Vivek Shanbhag
219 members, 13 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (26), Nexpixel (93)

Score: 3.06

39
All Grown Up
by Jami Attenberg
354 members, 18 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (27), Nexpixel (95)

Score: 3.04

40
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
547 members, 32 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (28), Nexpixel (96)

Score: 3.02

41
Red Clocks: A Novel
by Leni Zumas
612 members, 41 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (29), Nexpixel (99)

Score: 2.99

42
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
by Denis Johnson
304 members, 21 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (30), Nexpixel (100)

Score: 2.97

43
Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday
588 members, 28 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (31), Nexpixel (101)

Score: 2.96

44
How Should a Person Be?
by Sheila Heti
532 members, 30 reviews
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (4)

Score: 2.83

45
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
5,099 members, 149 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (8)

Score: 2.38

46
Leaving the Atocha Station
by Ben Lerner
648 members, 34 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (13)

Score: 2.11

47
Erasure
by Percival Everett
507 members, 19 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (15)

Score: 2.03

48
Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
2,380 members, 43 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (17)

Score: 1.97

49
Do Everything in the Dark: A Novel
by Gary Indiana
61 members, 2 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (18)

Score: 1.94

50
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
5,875 members, 136 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (19)

Score: 1.92

51
Veronica
by Mary Gaitskill
1,044 members, 24 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (22)

Score: 1.85

52
Ooga-Booga: Poems
by Frederick Seidel
97 members, 2 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (24)

Score: 1.81

53
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
866 members, 45 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (27)

Score: 1.76

54
The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
2,904 members, 249 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (28)

Score: 1.74

55
Mr. Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
734 members, 29 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (29)

Score: 1.72

56
Lives Other Than My Own
by Emmanuel Carrère
291 members, 17 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (30)

Score: 1.71

57
Zone One: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
1,385 members, 94 reviews
3.33 stars (3.33 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (31)

Score: 1.7

58
NW: A Novel
by Zadie Smith
1,771 members, 81 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (33)

Score: 1.67

59
White Girls
by Hilton Als
250 members, 4 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (34)

Score: 1.66

60
My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love
by Karl Ove Knausgård
869 members, 42 reviews
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (35)

Score: 1.65

61
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
1,031 members, 50 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (39)

Score: 1.6

62
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by Fred Moten
36 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (40)

Score: 1.59

63
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
507 members, 7 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (44)

Score: 1.55

64
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse: A Novel
by Louise Erdrich
1,634 members, 53 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (45)

Score: 1.54

65
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
3,203 members, 77 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (46)

Score: 1.54

66
The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers
1,145 members, 30 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (48)

Score: 1.52

67
The Book of Salt
by Monique Truong
1,048 members, 31 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (49)

Score: 1.51

68
Mortals
by Norman Rush
317 members, 3 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (50)

Score: 1.5

69
Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
525 members, 17 reviews
3.67 stars (3.67 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (51)

Score: 1.5

70
Oblivion
by David Foster Wallace
2,070 members, 30 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (52)

Score: 1.49

71
Honored Guest: Stories
by Joy Williams
174 members, 4 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (53)

Score: 1.48

72
The Sluts
by Dennis Cooper
223 members, 8 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (55)

Score: 1.47

73
Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
2,048 members, 87 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (57)

Score: 1.46

74
The Afterlife
by Donald Antrim
159 members, 4 reviews
3.1 stars (3.1 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (58)

Score: 1.45

75
Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
1,912 members, 116 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (59)

Score: 1.44

76
Wizard of the Crow
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
688 members, 16 reviews
4.25 stars (4.25 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (60)

Score: 1.44

77
American Genius: A Comedy
by Lynne Tillman
103 members, 3 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (61)

Score: 1.43

78
Eat the Document: A Novel
by Dana Spiotta
475 members, 15 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (62)

Score: 1.43

79
The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
1,055 members, 45 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (66)

Score: 1.4

80
Fine Just the Way It Is
by Annie Proulx
610 members, 33 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (68)

Score: 1.39

81
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
by J. M. Coetzee
927 members, 24 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (69)

Score: 1.39

82
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
by Eula Biss
238 members, 7 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (70)

Score: 1.38

83
Spreadeagle: A Novel
by Kevin Killian
9 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (71)

Score: 1.38

84
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
2,501 members, 118 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (72)

Score: 1.37

85
Seven Years
by Peter Stamm
207 members, 7 reviews
3.49 stars (3.49 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (73)

Score: 1.37

86
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
6,102 members, 261 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (75)

Score: 1.36

87
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
by Sarah Schulman
126 members, 0 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (76)

Score: 1.36

88
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
1,368 members, 110 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (77)

Score: 1.35

89
Capital
by John Lanchester
971 members, 54 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (78)

Score: 1.35

90
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel
by Anthony Marra
1,865 members, 148 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (80)

Score: 1.34

91
Taipei
by Tao Lin
264 members, 15 reviews
2.97 stars (2.97 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (81)

Score: 1.33

92
Men We Reaped
by Jesmyn Ward
642 members, 35 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (82)

Score: 1.33

93
Family Life
by Akhil Sharma
419 members, 21 reviews
3.41 stars (3.41 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (83)

Score: 1.33

94
Preparation for the Next Life
by Atticus Lish
310 members, 14 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (86)

Score: 1.31

95
The Light of the World: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Alexander
314 members, 14 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (88)

Score: 1.31

96
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
3,223 members, 183 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (89)

Score: 1.3

98
The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth
by Fanny Howe
19 members, 0 reviews
3.17 stars (3.17 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (92)

Score: 1.29

99
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
3,828 members, 257 reviews
4.48 stars (4.48 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (94)

Score: 1.29

100
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
by Valeria Luiselli
316 members, 16 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (97)

Score: 1.28

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