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
15,475 members
699 reviews
4
4 Members
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2
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,116 members
602 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
charl08, TommyB, joyceBl, ahef1963
4
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,346 members
263 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
hipdeep, charl08, NinieB
5
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,447 members
1,050 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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6
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,720 members
665 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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7
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,183 members
494 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,362 members
428 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,783 members
550 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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10
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
6,866 members
309 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,278 members
866 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
76,548 members
3,640 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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13
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,124 members
1,632 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
57,987 members
1,373 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
6,638 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,736 members
257 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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17
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
6,071 members
263 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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18
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
10,957 members
446 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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19
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,842 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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20
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,208 members
607 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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21
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,432 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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22
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,727 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,619 members
871 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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24
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,167 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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25
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,011 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
2,230 members
85 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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27
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,664 members
335 reviews
4
2 Members
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28
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,240 members
2,239 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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29
11/22/63
by Stephen King
16,795 members
852 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,431 members
482 reviews
4
2 Members
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31
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,319 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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32
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
6,320 members
327 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,402 members
416 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,907 members
213 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
8,850 members
360 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,919 members
777 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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37
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,849 members
356 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,190 members
654 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
39
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
3,729 members
173 reviews
4
2 Members
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40
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,418 members
402 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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41
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,081 members
290 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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42
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,345 members
461 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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43
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,671 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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44
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,621 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
3,736 members
147 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
charl08
46
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
6,967 members
167 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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47
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
108,483 members
1,640 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,409 members
581 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
49
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,539 members
343 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,334 members
395 reviews
3.9
Member
charl08
51
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,600 members
715 reviews
4.1
Member
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52
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
4,343 members
182 reviews
4
Member
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53
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,080 members
243 reviews
4
Member
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54
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,695 members
364 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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55
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
7,530 members
297 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
56
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,311 members
235 reviews
4.2
Member
charl08
57
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,998 members
935 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
58
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,044 members
436 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
59
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,049 members
660 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
60
James
by Percival Everett
5,919 members
229 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
charl08
61
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann
6,561 members
327 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
25,292 members
756 reviews
4
Member
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63
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,304 members
166 reviews
4.2
Member
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64
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,059 members
844 reviews
4.2
Member
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65
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,905 members
964 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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66
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,373 members
519 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,112 members
329 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,010 members
543 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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69
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,978 members
212 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
70
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,133 members
346 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
71
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
4,737 members
152 reviews
4
Member
charl08
72
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,643 members
305 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,822 members
339 reviews
4.2
Member
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74
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,989 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
charl08
75
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,729 members
156 reviews
4.2
Member
ahef1963
76
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,663 members
749 reviews
4.1
Member
charl08
77
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
2,214 members
111 reviews
4.2
Member
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78
Tenth of December: Stories
by George Saunders
4,529 members
201 reviews
4
Member
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79
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
4,339 members
183 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,844 members
1,510 reviews
4.1
81
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
20,619 members
531 reviews
4
82
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
20,362 members
614 reviews
4.2
83
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
12,669 members
557 reviews
½ 4.3
84
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
11,988 members
398 reviews
4.1
85
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,663 members
389 reviews
3.8
86
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,578 members
566 reviews
½ 4.3
87
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
9,904 members
236 reviews
½ 3.7
88
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
9,469 members
388 reviews
3.9
89
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
7,746 members
212 reviews
4.1
90
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
6,900 members
324 reviews
4.2
91
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,096 members
198 reviews
½ 4.4
92
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,114 members
179 reviews
3.9
93
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,905 members
193 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,406 members
203 reviews
4.1
95
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
3,791 members
131 reviews
3.9
96
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,436 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
97
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,607 members
80 reviews
½ 4.4
98
North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
2,539 members
117 reviews
4.1
99
Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
2,263 members
86 reviews
½ 4.5
100
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
2,202 members
78 reviews
3.8