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
15,511 members
699 reviews
4
4 Members
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2
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,179 members
605 reviews
½ 4.4
4 Members
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3
A Man Called Ove [2015 film]
by Hannes Holm
151 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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4
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,459 members
263 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
hipdeep, charl08, NinieB
5
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,545 members
1,051 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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6
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,760 members
666 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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7
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,211 members
494 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,414 members
429 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,823 members
551 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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10
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
6,920 members
309 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,382 members
868 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
76,812 members
3,643 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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13
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,246 members
1,636 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,101 members
1,375 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
6,664 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,790 members
257 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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17
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
6,061 members
263 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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18
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
11,039 members
447 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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19
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,859 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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20
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,285 members
609 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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21
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,464 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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22
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,841 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,697 members
874 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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24
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,218 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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25
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,082 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
2,252 members
85 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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27
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,629 members
338 reviews
4
2 Members
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28
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,416 members
2,240 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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29
11/22/63
by Stephen King
16,824 members
854 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,479 members
482 reviews
4
2 Members
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31
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,352 members
228 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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32
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
6,370 members
329 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,455 members
418 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,947 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
8,826 members
361 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,957 members
777 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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37
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,887 members
356 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,213 members
657 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
3,783 members
173 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,449 members
405 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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41
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,156 members
290 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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42
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,411 members
462 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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43
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,694 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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44
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,651 members
267 reviews
4.1
Member
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45
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
3,771 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
6,932 members
170 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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47
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
108,777 members
1,642 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,567 members
581 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
49
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,581 members
343 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,372 members
398 reviews
3.9
Member
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51
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,656 members
716 reviews
4.1
Member
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52
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
4,385 members
183 reviews
4
Member
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53
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,110 members
245 reviews
4
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54
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,787 members
365 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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55
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
7,598 members
297 reviews
4.1
Member
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56
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,344 members
236 reviews
4.2
Member
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57
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,801 members
938 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
58
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,164 members
438 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
59
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,098 members
660 reviews
4.1
Member
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60
James
by Percival Everett
6,024 members
233 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
61
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
6,577 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
25,236 members
757 reviews
4
Member
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63
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,341 members
166 reviews
4.2
Member
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64
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,114 members
846 reviews
4.2
Member
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65
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
24,030 members
967 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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66
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,397 members
519 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,137 members
329 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,123 members
544 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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69
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,999 members
212 reviews
4.1
Member
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70
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,199 members
346 reviews
4.1
Member
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71
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
4,794 members
152 reviews
4
Member
charl08
72
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,571 members
308 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,838 members
339 reviews
4.2
Member
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74
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
15,023 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
75
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,764 members
159 reviews
4.2
Member
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76
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,819 members
752 reviews
4.1
Member
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77
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
2,213 members
111 reviews
4.2
Member
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78
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,528 members
201 reviews
4
Member
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79
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
4,384 members
184 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,960 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
81
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
20,691 members
530 reviews
4
82
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
20,557 members
616 reviews
4.2
83
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
12,921 members
564 reviews
½ 4.3
84
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,125 members
399 reviews
4.1
85
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,716 members
389 reviews
3.8
86
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,585 members
567 reviews
½ 4.3
87
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
9,920 members
236 reviews
½ 3.7
88
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
9,505 members
390 reviews
3.9
89
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
7,784 members
213 reviews
4.1
90
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
7,047 members
327 reviews
4.2
91
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,149 members
195 reviews
½ 4.4
92
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,143 members
179 reviews
3.9
93
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,969 members
194 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,426 members
204 reviews
4.1
95
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
3,841 members
131 reviews
3.9
96
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,465 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
97
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,617 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
98
North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
2,580 members
117 reviews
4.1
99
Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
2,279 members
86 reviews
½ 4.5
100
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
2,233 members
79 reviews
3.8