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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

47,942 members

1,819 reviews

4

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

2

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,398 members

429 reviews

4.2

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

3

by Gillian Flynn

26,218 members

1,636 reviews

3.9

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

4

by Hilary Mantel

15,498 members

699 reviews

4

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

5

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,817 members

1,014 reviews

3.8

7 Members: anglemark, Larellano, Kristelh, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707

6

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

47,911 members

1,395 reviews

3.9

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

7

by Marilynne Robinson

13,443 members

418 reviews

3.9

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

8

by Sarah Waters

8,668 members

310 reviews

4.1

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

9

by David Mitchell

19,642 members

716 reviews

4.1

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

10

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

116,030 members

964 reviews

½ 4.4

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

11

by Margaret Atwood

18,821 members

577 reviews

3.9

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

12

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

11,017 members

447 reviews

4.2

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

13

The Underground Railroad

by Colson Whitehead

11,200 members

494 reviews

4

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

14

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

by Michael Pollan

15,020 members

368 reviews

4.2

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

15

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

6,244 members

140 reviews

4.2

5 Members: aprille, anglemark, petercalluy, ahef1963, vonnewhat

16

Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

9,878 members

402 reviews

½ 4.4

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

17

28,751 members

665 reviews

3.9

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

18

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

9,459 members

624 reviews

4

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

19

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot

16,946 members

777 reviews

4.2

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

20

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,312 members

392 reviews

4.2

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

21

by Cormac McCarthy

38,933 members

1,512 reviews

4.1

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

22

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

21,193 members

550 reviews

4.2

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

23

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

11,456 members

379 reviews

4.2

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

24

by Hanya Yanagihara

12,086 members

398 reviews

4.1

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

25

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,909 members

317 reviews

4.2

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

26

2,536 members

127 reviews

½ 3.7

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

27

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

26,051 members

428 reviews

4

4 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

28

Citizen: An American Lyric

by Claudia Rankine

2,553 members

72 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, Kristelh, steller0707

29

A Visit from the Goon Squad

by Jennifer Egan

9,812 members

551 reviews

½ 3.7

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

30

Stories of Your Life and Others

6,466 members

274 reviews

4.2

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, ManWithAnAgenda

31

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,877 members

356 reviews

3.8

4 Members: anglemark, Cecrow, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda

32

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

14,955 members

266 reviews

4.1

4 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark, HxBuff

33

by Terry Pratchett

12,398 members

183 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

2,526 members

116 reviews

3.9

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

35

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

5,011 members

117 reviews

½ 3.6

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

36

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

by Barbara Demick

3,723 members

195 reviews

½ 4.4

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, HxBuff, ahef1963

37

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

9,490 members

388 reviews

3.9

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

38

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

by Barbara Ehrenreich

11,764 members

231 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Lauren_Shriver

39

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

6,060 members

216 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963, steller0707

40

The Year of Magical Thinking

12,136 members

329 reviews

3.9

4 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, ahef1963, steller0707

41

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,611 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy

42

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty

4,732 members

78 reviews

4.2

3 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, HxBuff

43

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

3,517 members

49 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, makuku

44

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

6,123 members

140 reviews

4.2

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

45

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

16,390 members

462 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

46

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

3,399 members

76 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom

47

23,093 members

754 reviews

4

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

48

by Colm Tóibín

6,371 members

337 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh

49

by Maggie Nelson

2,130 members

90 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

50

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

4,374 members

184 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, steller0707, Charon07

51

The Plot Against America

9,915 members

236 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: anglemark, Kristelh, kara.shamy

52

The God Delusion

by Richard Dawkins

18,387 members

381 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, HxBuff

53

Tenth of December: Stories

by George Saunders

4,542 members

201 reviews

4

3 Members: anglemark, kara.shamy, steller0707

54

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

4,602 members

184 reviews

4.1

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

55

My Struggle, Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgård

3,431 members

124 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

56

by Sally Rooney

10,762 members

365 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

57

by Seamus Heaney

485 members

13 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

58

4,265 members

146 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

59

by Anne Enright

1,131 members

67 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, gypsysmom

60

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

by Svetlana Alexievich

2,154 members

79 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hipdeep, anglemark

61

15,008 members

267 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, steller0707

62

The Silence of the Girls

3,247 members

122 reviews

3.9

3 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom, kara.shamy

63

The Constant Gardener

by John le Carré

5,685 members

96 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, ahef1963

64

Chronicles: Volume One

4,895 members

78 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, hipdeep, anglemark

65

Days without End

by Sebastian Barry

1,547 members

91 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

66

by Edward St. Aubyn

928 members

41 reviews

½ 3.5

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, Kristelh

67

1,171 members

77 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, kara.shamy

68

Women & Power: A Manifesto

1,711 members

54 reviews

4

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

69

by Helen Dunmore

1,064 members

52 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aprille, anglemark, steller0707

70

by W. G. Sebald

4,777 members

117 reviews

4.1

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

2,095 members

39 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hipdeep, anglemark

72

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

by Andrew Solomon

2,864 members

41 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

73

by Carol Ann Duffy

435 members

3 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

74

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

by Edmund De Waal

4,145 members

168 reviews

4

2 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom

75

1,340 members

12 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

76

by Julian Barnes

1,205 members

78 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

77

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

by Jeanette Winterson

2,365 members

104 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

78

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

824 members

11 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

79

by Alice Oswald

249 members

4 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

80

This House of Grief

by Helen Garner

472 members

26 reviews

4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

81

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

by Malcolm Gladwell

23,672 members

345 reviews

3.8

2 Members: anglemark, gypsysmom

82

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

by Carlo Rovelli

3,103 members

101 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

83

The Infatuations

by Javier Marías

1,306 members

59 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

84

Notes on a Scandal

3,267 members

108 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

85

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

3,446 members

58 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

86

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger

by Richard Wilkinson

1,551 members

47 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

87

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

by Yanis Varoufakis

564 members

18 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

88

Noughts and Crosses

by Malorie Blackman

2,548 members

74 reviews

3.8

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

89

Bad Blood: A Memoir

794 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

90

by Jenny Erpenbeck

861 members

48 reviews

3.9

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

91

by M. John Harrison

2,246 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

92

by Nicola Barker

1,038 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

93

by Alain Mabanckou

279 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

94

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

3,845 members

166 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: aprille, anglemark

95

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

by Rebecca Solnit

1,523 members

37 reviews

3.9

Member: anglemark

96

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

by Robert Macfarlane

2,291 members

64 reviews

4.1

Member: anglemark

97

Signs Preceding the End of the World

by Yuri Herrera

1,009 members

36 reviews

4

Member: anglemark

98

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

by Valeria Luiselli

946 members

32 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: anglemark

99

The Cost of Living

by Deborah Levy

636 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: anglemark

100

Priestdaddy: A Memoir

by Patricia Lockwood

1,238 members

62 reviews

4

Member: anglemark

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