Best 21st Century Books (So Far)

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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,394 members
1,405 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 6
17 Members
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Red Plenty: Industry! Progress! Abundance! Inside the Fifties Soviet Dream
by Francis Spufford
843 members
32 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 138
2 Members
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Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,122 members
101 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 15
11 Members
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HHhH
by Laurent Binet
2,070 members
122 reviews
4
Global Rank 217
2 Members
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Running
by Jean Echenoz
298 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 325
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The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq
5,510 members
86 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 39
7 Members
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The Map and the Territory
by Michel Houellebecq
1,730 members
53 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 239
2 Members
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Lightning
by Jean Echenoz
212 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 375
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The Order of the Day
by Eric Vuillard
706 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 196
2 Members
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
11,070 members
292 reviews
4
Global Rank 75
5 Members
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Submission
by Michel Houellebecq
2,059 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 392
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Platform
by Michel Houellebecq
2,828 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 260
2 Members
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Piano
by Jean Echenoz
177 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 400
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
by Kazuo Ishiguro
2,248 members
105 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 263
2 Members
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The Kingdom
by Emmanuel Carrère
520 members
18 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 414
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
9,078 members
515 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 147
4 Members
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Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
8,679 members
410 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 296
2 Members
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The Mystery Guest: An Account
by Grégoire Bouillier
231 members
12 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 424
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Anéantir
by Michel Houellebecq
298 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 427
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
18,130 members
1,241 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 200
3 Members
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
8,646 members
405 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 91
5 Members
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
8,948 members
217 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 53
8 Members
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Solar
by Ian McEwan
3,653 members
150 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 449
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
2,747 members
140 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 36
8 Members
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The Perfect Nanny
by Leïla Slimani
1,772 members
105 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 455
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The Silence of the Girls
by Pat Barker
2,385 members
103 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 313
2 Members
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Machines Like Me
by Ian McEwan
1,283 members
57 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 457
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Ransom
by David Malouf
738 members
46 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 460
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
6,851 members
272 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 316
2 Members
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,896 members
236 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 463
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