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
15,485 members
699 reviews
4
4 Members
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2
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
12,127 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
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4
Demon Copperhead
by Barbara Kingsolver
7,359 members
263 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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5
Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
47,461 members
1,050 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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6
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
28,728 members
665 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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7
The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
11,176 members
494 reviews
4
3 Members
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8
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,370 members
428 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
A Visit from the Goon Squad
by Jennifer Egan
9,789 members
550 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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10
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
6,874 members
309 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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11
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,290 members
866 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
76,604 members
3,639 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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13
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,140 members
1,633 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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14
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,002 members
1,374 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
6,643 members
207 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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16
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
5,745 members
257 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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17
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
6,080 members
263 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
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18
The Fifth Season
by N. K. Jemisin
10,968 members
446 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
9,853 members
402 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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20
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,223 members
608 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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21
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
9,435 members
624 reviews
4
2 Members
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22
Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
26,743 members
1,014 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
14,636 members
871 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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24
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
7,178 members
321 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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25
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
6,025 members
182 reviews
3.9
Member
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
2,233 members
85 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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27
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
9,679 members
335 reviews
4
2 Members
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28
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
52,267 members
2,239 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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29
11/22/63
by Stephen King
16,809 members
852 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
14,437 members
482 reviews
4
2 Members
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31
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by Matthew Desmond
4,322 members
227 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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32
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
6,329 members
327 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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33
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,410 members
417 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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34
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,912 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
8,860 members
360 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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36
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
16,924 members
777 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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37
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,855 members
356 reviews
3.8
Member
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38
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout
11,192 members
655 reviews
3.9
Member
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39
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
3,733 members
173 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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40
Piranesi
by Susanna Clarke
9,433 members
402 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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41
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
8,093 members
290 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
16,360 members
462 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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43
The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
2,674 members
137 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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44
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
6,629 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
3,742 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
6,977 members
167 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
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47
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
108,524 members
1,640 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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48
Circe
by Madeline Miller
18,431 members
581 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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49
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9,545 members
343 reviews
4.2
Member
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50
Lincoln in the Bardo
by George Saunders
7,338 members
396 reviews
3.9
Member
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51
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
19,607 members
715 reviews
4.1
Member
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52
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
4,349 members
182 reviews
4
Member
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53
There There
by Tommy Orange
6,084 members
243 reviews
4
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54
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
10,707 members
365 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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55
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
7,539 members
297 reviews
4.1
Member
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56
Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan
4,320 members
235 reviews
4.2
Member
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57
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
33,722 members
937 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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58
Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
10,059 members
436 reviews
4.1
Member
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59
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
29,057 members
660 reviews
4.1
Member
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60
James
by Percival Everett
5,935 members
230 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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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
25,307 members
755 reviews
4
Member
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63
Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
4,309 members
166 reviews
4.2
Member
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64
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,067 members
846 reviews
4.2
Member
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65
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
23,929 members
964 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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66
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
14,379 members
519 reviews
3.8
Member
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67
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
12,119 members
329 reviews
3.9
Member
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68
The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
15,041 members
542 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
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69
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
4,984 members
212 reviews
4.1
Member
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70
Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
9,142 members
346 reviews
4.1
Member
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71
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
by Michelle Zauner
4,749 members
152 reviews
4
Member
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72
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,482 members
305 reviews
3.8
Member
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73
When Breath Becomes Air
by Paul Kalanithi
6,826 members
339 reviews
4.2
Member
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74
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
14,992 members
267 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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75
Shuggie Bain
by Douglas Stuart
3,734 members
156 reviews
4.2
Member
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76
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
20,687 members
749 reviews
4.1
Member
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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
4,531 members
201 reviews
4
Member
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79
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk
4,343 members
183 reviews
3.9
Member
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80
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,863 members
1,511 reviews
4.1
81
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
20,630 members
530 reviews
4
82
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
20,392 members
614 reviews
4.2
83
Project Hail Mary
by Andy Weir
12,683 members
558 reviews
½ 4.3
84
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
12,009 members
398 reviews
4.1
85
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
10,670 members
389 reviews
3.8
86
Cutting for Stone
by Abraham Verghese
10,582 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
9,478 members
389 reviews
3.9
89
2666
by Roberto Bolaño
7,753 members
213 reviews
4.1
90
Remarkably Bright Creatures
by Shelby Van Pelt
6,932 members
324 reviews
4.2
91
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
6,105 members
194 reviews
½ 4.4
92
The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
5,119 members
179 reviews
3.9
93
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
by Ottessa Moshfegh
4,912 members
193 reviews
½ 3.6
94
The Lincoln Highway
by Amor Towles
4,409 members
203 reviews
4.1
95
Trust
by Hernan Diaz
3,799 members
131 reviews
3.9
96
The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
3,441 members
129 reviews
½ 4.3
97
In the Dream House: A Memoir
by Carmen Maria Machado
2,610 members
81 reviews
½ 4.4
98
North Woods: A Novel
by Daniel Mason
2,547 members
117 reviews
4.2
99
Know My Name: A Memoir
by Chanel Miller
2,266 members
86 reviews
½ 4.5
100
The Bee Sting
by Paul Murray
2,205 members
78 reviews
3.8