Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

October 4, 2024
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A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.

Position	Details	Readers Count
#1	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	73 reads
#2	The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante	1 read
#3	My Struggle: Book One Karl Ove Knausgård Don Bartlett (translator)	34 reads
#4	Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu	13 reads
#5	Septology Jon Fosse	3 reads
#6	Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	192 reads
#7	Austerlitz W.G. Sebald James Wood	15 reads
#8	The Sellout Paul Beatty	83 reads
#9	The Road Cormac McCarthy	933 reads
#10	Against the Day Thomas Pynchon	13 reads
#11	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	685 reads
#12	Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor	31 reads
#13	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	373 reads
#14	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	12 reads
#15	Gilead Marilynne Robinson	89 reads
#16	White Teeth Zadie Smith	114 reads
#17	The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt	23 reads
#18	The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy	1 read
#19	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	480 reads
#20	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	124 reads
#21	The Pale King David Foster Wallace	21 reads
#22	Flights Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	29 reads
#23	Piranesi Susanna Clarke Viktor Janiš (translator)	978 reads
#24	The Years Annie Ernaux Alison L. Strayer (Translator)	12 reads
#25	Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	541 reads
#26	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)	128 reads
#27	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	330 reads
#28	Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	1 read
#29	Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	3 reads
#30	Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon	62 reads
#31	A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James	47 reads
#32	Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann	11 reads
#33	No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	217 reads
#34	Freedom Jonathan Franzen	74 reads
#35	Outline Rachel Cusk	76 reads
#36	Trieste Daša Drndić Ellen Elias-Bursać (Translator)	2 reads
#37	Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	238 reads
#38	The Maniac Benjamín Labatut	21 reads
#39	The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn Martin Aitken (Translator)	59 reads
#40	Leaving the Atocha Station	24 reads
#41	Milkman Anna Burns	42 reads
#42	Atonement Ian McEwan	253 reads
#43	The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen	18 reads
#44	Wizard of the Crow Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	9 reads
#45	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	366 reads
#46	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	851 reads
#47	Tyll Daniel Kehlmann Isabel García Adánez (Translator)	15 reads
#48	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich Bela Shayevich (Translator)	18 reads
#49	Train Dreams Denis Johnson	38 reads
#50	The Vegetarian Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator)	269 reads
#51	Nox Anne Carson	5 reads
#52	Oblivion: Stories David Foster Wallace	20 reads
#53	Erasure Percival Everett	30 reads
#54	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	439 reads
#55	Tenth of December George Saunders	107 reads
#56	Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel Scholastique Mukasonga	0 reads
#57	A Naked Singularity Sergio de la Pava	3 reads
#58	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	196 reads
#59	Foster Claire Keegan	112 reads
#60	Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	727 reads
#61	Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	361 reads
#62	The Idiot Elif Batuman	102 reads
#63	Belladonna Daša Drndić	0 reads
#64	Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	495 reads
#65	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	307 reads
#66	Brothers Yu Hua Eileen Chow (Translator) Carlos Rojas (Translator)	2 reads
#67	Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	176 reads
#68	The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco	25 reads
#69	Animal Money Michael Cisco	1 read
#70	Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters	106 reads
#71	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong	349 reads
#72	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	273 reads
#73	By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño	15 reads
#74	When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	78 reads
#75	Happening Annie Ernaux Tanya Leslie (Translator)	19 reads
#76	Border Districts Gerald Murnane	0 reads
#77	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	245 reads
#78	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	143 reads
#79	Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon	25 reads
#80	The Human Stain Philip Roth	3 reads
#81	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	208 reads
#82	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	237 reads
#83	My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	393 reads
#84	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond	114 reads
#85	Seeing José Saramago	12 reads
#86	Zone Mathias Énard Charlotte Mandell (Translator)	1 read
#87	Submission Michel Houellebecq	8 reads
#88	HHhH Laurent Binet Adolfo García Ortega (Translator)	9 reads
#89	Minor Detail Adania Shibli Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)	51 reads
#90	The Instructions Adam Levin	7 reads
#91	The Adversary Emmanuel Carrère Linda Coverdale (Translator)	8 reads
#92	Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree	11 reads
#93	Cannonball Joseph McElroy	0 reads
#94	A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa Daniel Hahn (Translator)	3 reads
#95	My Work Olga Ravn Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator) Jennifer Russell (Translator)	0 reads
#96	Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila	1 read
#97	The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner	20 reads
#98	Heaven Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	97 reads
#99	Trilogy Jon Fosse	2 reads
#100	Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher	94 reads

Position	Details	Readers Count
#1	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	73 reads
#2	The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante	1 read
#3	My Struggle: Book One Karl Ove Knausgård Don Bartlett (translator)	34 reads
#4	Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu	13 reads
#5	Septology Jon Fosse	3 reads
#6	Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	192 reads
#7	Austerlitz W.G. Sebald James Wood	15 reads
#8	The Sellout Paul Beatty	83 reads
#9	The Road Cormac McCarthy	933 reads
#10	Against the Day Thomas Pynchon	13 reads
#11	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	685 reads
#12	Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor	31 reads
#13	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	373 reads
#14	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	12 reads
#15	Gilead Marilynne Robinson	89 reads
#16	White Teeth Zadie Smith	114 reads
#17	The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt	23 reads
#18	The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy	1 read
#19	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	480 reads
#20	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	124 reads
#21	The Pale King David Foster Wallace	21 reads
#22	Flights Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	29 reads
#23	Piranesi Susanna Clarke Viktor Janiš (translator)	978 reads
#24	The Years Annie Ernaux Alison L. Strayer (Translator)	12 reads
#25	Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	541 reads
#26	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)	128 reads
#27	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	330 reads
#28	Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	1 read
#29	Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	3 reads
#30	Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon	62 reads
#31	A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James	47 reads
#32	Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann	11 reads
#33	No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	217 reads
#34	Freedom Jonathan Franzen	74 reads
#35	Outline Rachel Cusk	76 reads
#36	Trieste Daša Drndić Ellen Elias-Bursać (Translator)	2 reads
#37	Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	238 reads
#38	The Maniac Benjamín Labatut	21 reads
#39	The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn Martin Aitken (Translator)	59 reads
#40	Leaving the Atocha Station	24 reads
#41	Milkman Anna Burns	42 reads
#42	Atonement Ian McEwan	253 reads
#43	The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen	18 reads
#44	Wizard of the Crow Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	9 reads
#45	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	366 reads
#46	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	851 reads
#47	Tyll Daniel Kehlmann Isabel García Adánez (Translator)	15 reads
#48	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich Bela Shayevich (Translator)	18 reads
#49	Train Dreams Denis Johnson	38 reads
#50	The Vegetarian Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator)	269 reads
#51	Nox Anne Carson	5 reads
#52	Oblivion: Stories David Foster Wallace	20 reads
#53	Erasure Percival Everett	30 reads
#54	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	439 reads
#55	Tenth of December George Saunders	107 reads
#56	Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel Scholastique Mukasonga	0 reads
#57	A Naked Singularity Sergio de la Pava	3 reads
#58	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	196 reads
#59	Foster Claire Keegan	112 reads
#60	Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	727 reads
#61	Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	361 reads
#62	The Idiot Elif Batuman	102 reads
#63	Belladonna Daša Drndić	0 reads
#64	Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	495 reads
#65	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	307 reads
#66	Brothers Yu Hua Eileen Chow (Translator) Carlos Rojas (Translator)	2 reads
#67	Her Body And Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	176 reads
#68	The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco	25 reads
#69	Animal Money Michael Cisco	1 read
#70	Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters	106 reads
#71	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong	349 reads
#72	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	273 reads
#73	By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño	15 reads
#74	When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	78 reads
#75	Happening Annie Ernaux Tanya Leslie (Translator)	19 reads
#76	Border Districts Gerald Murnane	0 reads
#77	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	245 reads
#78	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	143 reads
#79	Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon	25 reads
#80	The Human Stain Philip Roth	3 reads
#81	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	208 reads
#82	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	237 reads
#83	My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	393 reads
#84	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond	114 reads
#85	Seeing José Saramago	12 reads
#86	Zone Mathias Énard Charlotte Mandell (Translator)	1 read
#87	Submission Michel Houellebecq	8 reads
#88	HHhH Laurent Binet Adolfo García Ortega (Translator)	9 reads
#89	Minor Detail Adania Shibli Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)	51 reads
#90	The Instructions Adam Levin	7 reads
#91	The Adversary Emmanuel Carrère Linda Coverdale (Translator)	8 reads
#92	Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree	11 reads
#93	Cannonball Joseph McElroy	0 reads
#94	A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa Daniel Hahn (Translator)	3 reads
#95	My Work Olga Ravn Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator) Jennifer Russell (Translator)	0 reads
#96	Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila	1 read
#97	The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner	20 reads
#98	Heaven Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	97 reads
#99	Trilogy Jon Fosse	2 reads
#100	Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher	94 reads

Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

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