NYT Readers best of 21st C

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The NYT readers' version of the writers' list... Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/reader-best-books-21st-century.html (2024)
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Wolf Hall
by Hilary Mantel
15,550 members
703 reviews
4
4 Members
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2
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,235 members
608 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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3
A Man Called Ove [2015 film]
by Hannes Holm
152 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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4
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,532 members
264 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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5
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,406 members
1,053 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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6
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,814 members
667 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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7
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,244 members
495 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,444 members
431 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,846 members
552 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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10
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
6,989 members
311 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,473 members
869 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
77,076 members
3,648 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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13
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,342 members
1,639 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,212 members
1,376 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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15
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,669 members
208 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,812 members
259 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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17
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
6,096 members
263 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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18
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,085 members
447 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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19
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,899 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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20
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,341 members
608 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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21
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,486 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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22
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,910 members
1,015 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,734 members
878 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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24
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,252 members
322 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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25
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,136 members
182 reviews
3.9
Member
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26
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
2,246 members
86 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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27
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,724 members
339 reviews
4
2 Members
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28
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,540 members
2,243 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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29
11/22/63
by Stephen King
16,900 members
854 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,505 members
485 reviews
4
2 Members
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31
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,376 members
228 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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32
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
6,411 members
330 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,503 members
420 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,984 members
216 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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35
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by David Grann
8,886 members
361 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
17,003 members
778 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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37
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,914 members
356 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,245 members
657 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
3,830 members
175 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,538 members
410 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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41
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,210 members
290 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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42
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,501 members
466 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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43
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,701 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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44
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,656 members
268 reviews
4.2
Member
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45
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
3,756 members
147 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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46
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
6,986 members
171 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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47
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
108,861 members
1,644 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,713 members
583 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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49
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,612 members
345 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,402 members
399 reviews
3.9
Member
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51
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,707 members
719 reviews
4.1
Member
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52
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
4,303 members
185 reviews
4
Member
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53
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,136 members
247 reviews
4
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54
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,875 members
366 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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55
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
7,640 members
296 reviews
4.1
Member
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56
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,379 members
238 reviews
4.2
Member
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57
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,890 members
939 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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58
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,279 members
439 reviews
4.2
Member
charl08
59
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,138 members
661 reviews
4.1
Member
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60
James
by Percival Everett
6,104 members
234 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
61
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
6,589 members
328 reviews
4
Member
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62
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
25,304 members
759 reviews
4
Member
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63
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,368 members
167 reviews
4.2
Member
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64
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,173 members
847 reviews
4.2
Member
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65
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,136 members
971 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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66
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,428 members
520 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,165 members
330 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,248 members
543 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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69
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
5,019 members
212 reviews
4.1
Member
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70
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,240 members
348 reviews
4.1
Member
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71
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
4,840 members
152 reviews
4
Member
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72
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,643 members
306 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,853 members
339 reviews
4.2
Member
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74
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,056 members
268 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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75
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,787 members
159 reviews
4.2
Member
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76
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,966 members
753 reviews
4.1
Member
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77
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
2,224 members
111 reviews
4.2
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78
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,544 members
202 reviews
4
Member
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79
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
4,424 members
183 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,937 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
81
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
20,780 members
531 reviews
4
82
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
20,729 members
620 reviews
4.2
83
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
13,141 members
570 reviews
½ 4.3
84
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,220 members
399 reviews
4.1
85
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,753 members
390 reviews
3.8
86
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,603 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
87
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
9,936 members
236 reviews
½ 3.7
88
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
9,544 members
389 reviews
3.9
89
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
7,814 members
214 reviews
4.1
90
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
7,184 members
329 reviews
4.2
91
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,191 members
196 reviews
½ 4.4
92
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,166 members
181 reviews
3.9
93
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
5,013 members
195 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,441 members
205 reviews
4.1
95
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
3,894 members
132 reviews
3.9
96
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,502 members
132 reviews
½ 4.3
97
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,633 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
98
North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
2,614 members
119 reviews
4.1
99
Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
2,299 members
87 reviews
½ 4.5
100
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
2,269 members
79 reviews
3.8