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The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in the English language since January 1, 2000. The list was compiled by The New York Times , with the input of 503 writers and academics.[ 1]
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author. The following authors were listed twice: Roberto Bolaño , Edward P. Jones , Denis Johnson , Alice Munro , Hilary Mantel , Zadie Smith and Philip Roth .[ 2]
Rank
Title
Author
Year
1
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
2012
2
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
2010
3
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
2009
4
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
2003
5
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
2001
6
2666
Roberto Bolaño
2008
7
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
2016
8
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
2001
9
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
10
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
2004
11
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
2007
12
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
2005
13
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
2006
14
Outline
Rachel Cusk
2015
15
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017
16
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
2000
17
The Sellout
Paul Beatty
2015
18
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
2017
19
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
2019
20
Erasure
Percival Everett
2001
21
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
2016
22
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo
2012
23
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro
2001
24
The Overstory
Richard Powers
2018
25
Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
2003
26
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2002
27
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2013
28
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
2004
29
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt
2000
30
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
2017
31
White Teeth
Zadie Smith
2000
32
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
2004
33
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
2011
34
Citizen
Claudia Rankine
2014
35
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
2006
36
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
37
The Years
Annie Ernaux
2018
38
The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
2007
39
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
2010
40
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
2015
41
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan
2021
42
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James
2014
43
Postwar
Tony Judt
2005
44
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
2015
45
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
2015
46
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
2013
47
A Mercy
Toni Morrison
2008
48
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
2003
49
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
2016
50
Trust
Hernan Diaz
2022
51
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
2013
52
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson
2011
53
Runaway
Alice Munro
2004
54
Tenth of December
George Saunders
2013
55
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
2006
56
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner
2013
57
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
2001
58
Stay True
Hua Hsu
2022
59
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
2002
60
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
2018
61
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
2022
62
10:42
Ben Lerner
2014
63
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill
2005
64
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
2018
65
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
2004
66
We the Animals
Justin Torres
2011
67
Far From the Tree
Andrew Solomon
2012
68
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
2018
69
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
2010
70
All Aunt Hagar's Children
Edward P. Jones
2006
71
The Copenhagen Trilogy
Tove Ditlevsen
2021
72
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich
2016
73
The Passage of Power
Robert Caro
2012
74
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout
2008
75
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
2017
76
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
2022
77
An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
2018
78
Septology
Jon Fosse
2022
79
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
2015
80
The Story of the Lost Child
Elena Ferrante
2015
81
Pulphead
John Jeremiah Sullivan
2011
82
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
2020
83
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
2021
84
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
2010
85
Pastoralia
George Saunders
2000
86
Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight
2018
87
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
2021
88
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
2010
89
The Return
Hisham Matar
2016
90
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
2015
91
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
2000
92
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante
2005
93
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
2014
94
On Beauty
Zadie Smith
2005
95
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
2012
96
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
2019
97
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
2013
98
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
2001
99
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
2014
100
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
2007
The list was criticized for its perceived bias towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors.[ 3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure".[ 4] The list was also criticized for its lack of genres such as graphic fiction , science fiction , fantasy , and children's literature .[ 5] Indian publication Scroll.in wrote of the list "How much, and for how long, is America going to obsess over reading and dissecting itself? Why do reading lists emerging from the West claim authority on culture with such hyperbole?"[ 6]
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