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

Type: Preset list created by Nexpixel

Description: Best books of the 2000s as of 9/17/18

Members: 7 participating members (show all)

All members' list: [1] 2Sort: Score | Title | Author | Date
1
Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
11,154 members, 609 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

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Score: 11.86

2
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
17,102 members, 370 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

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Score: 11.66

3
Harry Potter
by J. K. Rowling
0 members, 3 reviews

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Score: 11.66

4
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
17,325 members, 1,397 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

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Score: 9.46

5
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
1,612 members, 62 reviews
4.37 stars (4.37 stars)

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

Score: 9.46

6
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
11,077 members, 684 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

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Score: 8.78

7
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
19,256 members, 855 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

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Score: 8.54

8
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
24,795 members, 593 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

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Score: 7.35

9
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
15,135 members, 323 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: ManWithAnAgenda (2), Nexpixel (2)

Score: 6.73

10
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
11,501 members, 450 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (4), kara.shamy (13), Nexpixel (25)

Score: 6.72

11
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky
8,963 members, 329 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 6.37

12
The Amber Spyglass
by Philip Pullman
20,670 members, 353 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

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Score: 6.25

13
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
3,748 members, 71 reviews
3.68 stars (3.68 stars)

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Score: 5.75

14
Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
6,909 members, 261 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

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Score: 5.64

15
The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
8,473 members, 388 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

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Score: 5.45

16
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected
by August Kleinzahler
84 members, 1 review
4.13 stars (4.13 stars)

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Score: 5.41

17
The Argonauts
by Maggie Nelson
1,102 members, 56 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

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Score: 5.38

18
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
4,635 members, 261 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 5.3

19
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
5,150 members, 272 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (5), Nexpixel (7)

Score: 5.13

20
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
3,114 members, 140 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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Score: 5.11

21
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
2,387 members, 108 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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Score: 4.87

22
Outline
by Rachel Cusk
1,244 members, 81 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

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Score: 4.71

23
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
23,710 members, 589 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

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Score: 4.51

24
The Flamethrowers
by Rachel Kushner
1,304 members, 80 reviews
3.39 stars (3.39 stars)

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

Score: 4.45

25
Citizen: An American Lyric
by Claudia Rankine
1,361 members, 60 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

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Score: 4.43

26
The Neapolitan Novels
by Elena Ferrante
54 members, 2 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

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Score: 4.34

27
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
8,742 members, 253 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

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Score: 4.26

28
The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
3,017 members, 257 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

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Score: 4.2

29
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
7,979 members, 198 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

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Score: 4.14

30
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
4,143 members, 107 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (12), Nexpixel (21)

Score: 4.02

31
The Last Samurai
by Helen DeWitt
1,575 members, 50 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (1)

Score: 4

32
Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
15,000 members, 484 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

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Score: 3.72

33
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
1,554 members, 123 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (16), Nexpixel (37)

Score: 3.62

34
All My Puny Sorrows
by Miriam Toews
936 members, 57 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (17), Nexpixel (38)

Score: 3.58

35
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
29,663 members, 1,319 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

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Score: 3.48

36
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
7,024 members, 495 reviews
3.8 stars (3.8 stars)

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

Score: 3.23

37
How to Be Both
by Ali Smith
1,209 members, 39 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

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

Score: 3.17

38
A Brief History of Seven Killings
by Marlon James
2,087 members, 93 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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

Score: 3.14

39
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
2,522 members, 117 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

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

Score: 3.12

40
What Belongs to You
by Garth Greenwell
533 members, 19 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

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

Score: 3.09

41
Eat the Document
by Dana Spiotta
506 members, 16 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (35), Nexpixel (62)

Score: 3.07

42
Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag
301 members, 17 reviews
3.81 stars (3.81 stars)

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

Score: 3.06

43
All Grown Up
by Jami Attenberg
403 members, 20 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

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

Score: 3.04

44
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
by Thi Bui
714 members, 45 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

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

Score: 3.02

45
Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
789 members, 47 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

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

Score: 2.99

46
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
by Denis Johnson
421 members, 26 reviews
3.97 stars (3.97 stars)

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

Score: 2.97

47
Asymmetry
by Lisa Halliday
734 members, 35 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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

Score: 2.96

48
How Should a Person Be?
by Sheila Heti
592 members, 33 reviews
3.1 stars (3.1 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (4)

Score: 2.83

49
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
5,557 members, 159 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (8)

Score: 2.38

50
Leaving the Atocha Station
by Ben Lerner
774 members, 42 reviews
3.59 stars (3.59 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (13)

Score: 2.11

51
Erasure
by Percival Everett
565 members, 22 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (15)

Score: 2.03

52
Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
2,516 members, 46 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (17)

Score: 1.97

53
Do Everything in the Dark: A Novel
by Gary Indiana
71 members, 2 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (18)

Score: 1.94

54
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
6,109 members, 144 reviews
3.77 stars (3.77 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (19)

Score: 1.92

55
Veronica
by Mary Gaitskill
1,072 members, 24 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (22)

Score: 1.85

56
Ooga-Booga: Poems
by Frederick Seidel
105 members, 3 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (24)

Score: 1.81

57
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by Elif Batuman
912 members, 45 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (27)

Score: 1.76

58
Mr. Fox
by Helen Oyeyemi
859 members, 36 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (29)

Score: 1.72

59
Lives Other Than My Own
by Emmanuel Carrère
353 members, 18 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (30)

Score: 1.71

60
Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
1,567 members, 111 reviews
3.34 stars (3.34 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (31)

Score: 1.7

61
NW
by Zadie Smith
1,988 members, 91 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (33)

Score: 1.67

62
White Girls
by Hilton Als
295 members, 5 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (34)

Score: 1.66

63
My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love
by Karl Ove Knausgård
997 members, 43 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (35)

Score: 1.65

64
Black and Blur (consent not to be a single being)
by Fred Moten
70 members, 0 reviews
5 stars (5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (40)

Score: 1.59

65
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
by Anne Carson
571 members, 7 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (44)

Score: 1.55

66
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
by Louise Erdrich
1,720 members, 54 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (45)

Score: 1.54

67
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
3,476 members, 82 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (46)

Score: 1.54

68
The Time of Our Singing
by Richard Powers
1,199 members, 31 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (48)

Score: 1.52

69
The Book of Salt
by Monique Truong
1,109 members, 32 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (49)

Score: 1.51

70
Mortals
by Norman Rush
331 members, 3 reviews
3.7 stars (3.7 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (50)

Score: 1.5

71
Home Land
by Sam Lipsyte
540 members, 18 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (51)

Score: 1.5

72
Oblivion
by David Foster Wallace
2,222 members, 35 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (52)

Score: 1.49

73
Honored Guest: Stories
by Joy Williams
201 members, 5 reviews
3.69 stars (3.69 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (53)

Score: 1.48

74
The Sluts
by Dennis Cooper
253 members, 9 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (55)

Score: 1.47

75
Magic for Beginners
by Kelly Link
2,139 members, 94 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (57)

Score: 1.46

76
The Afterlife
by Donald Antrim
168 members, 4 reviews
3.1 stars (3.1 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (58)

Score: 1.45

77
Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
2,067 members, 121 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (59)

Score: 1.44

78
Wizard of the Crow
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
762 members, 17 reviews
4.24 stars (4.24 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (60)

Score: 1.44

79
American Genius: A Comedy
by Lynne Tillman
112 members, 3 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (61)

Score: 1.43

80
The Lazarus Project
by Aleksandar Hemon
1,109 members, 47 reviews
3.52 stars (3.52 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (66)

Score: 1.4

81
Fine Just the Way It Is
by Annie Proulx
656 members, 35 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (68)

Score: 1.39

82
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
by J. M. Coetzee
979 members, 26 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (69)

Score: 1.39

83
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
by Eula Biss
284 members, 10 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (70)

Score: 1.38

84
Spreadeagle: A Novel
by Kevin Killian
11 members, 0 reviews
3 stars (3 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (71)

Score: 1.38

85
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
2,653 members, 123 reviews
3.45 stars (3.45 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (72)

Score: 1.37

86
Seven Years
by Peter Stamm
223 members, 7 reviews
3.46 stars (3.46 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (73)

Score: 1.37

87
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
6,935 members, 296 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (75)

Score: 1.36

88
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
by Sarah Schulman
175 members, 2 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (76)

Score: 1.36

89
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
1,470 members, 117 reviews
3.91 stars (3.91 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (77)

Score: 1.35

90
Capital
by John Lanchester
1,051 members, 60 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (78)

Score: 1.35

91
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
1,992 members, 158 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (80)

Score: 1.34

92
Taipei
by Tao Lin
296 members, 18 reviews
2.84 stars (2.84 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (81)

Score: 1.33

93
Men We Reaped
by Jesmyn Ward
790 members, 40 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (82)

Score: 1.33

94
Family Life
by Akhil Sharma
462 members, 24 reviews
3.41 stars (3.41 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (83)

Score: 1.33

95
Preparation for the Next Life
by Atticus Lish
355 members, 16 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (86)

Score: 1.31

96
The Light of the World: A Memoir
by Elizabeth Alexander
386 members, 19 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (88)

Score: 1.31

98
The Needle's Eye: Passing through Youth
by Fanny Howe
23 members, 0 reviews
2.83 stars (2.83 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (92)

Score: 1.29

99
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
5,537 members, 353 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
448 members, 25 reviews
4.33 stars (4.33 stars)

Lists: Nexpixel (97)

Score: 1.28

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