100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
- July 12, 2024
- 100 Books
- Stats
- nytimes.com
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of
The New York Times Book Review.
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of
The New York Times Book Review.
 My Brilliant Friend
| 4.05 | 255 reads |
 The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.53 | 71 reads |
 Wolf Hall
| 3.93 | 178 reads |
 The Known World
| 3.4 | 31 reads |
 The Corrections
| 3.89 | 134 reads |
 2666
| 3.87 | 78 reads |
 The Underground Railroad
| 4.06 | 326 reads |
 Austerlitz
| 4.42 | 17 reads |
 Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 | 726 reads |
 Gilead
| 4.06 | 97 reads |
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
| 3.77 | 220 reads |
 The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.06 | 199 reads |
 The Road
| 4.04 | 988 reads |
 Outline
| 3.67 | 82 reads |
 Pachinko
| 4.25 | 386 reads |
 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
| 4.23 | 175 reads |
 The Sellout
| 3.78 | 86 reads |
 Lincoln in the Bardo
| 3.9 | 211 reads |
 Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
| 4.47 | 147 reads |
 Erasure
| 4.52 | 37 reads |
 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.58 | 129 reads |
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.97 | 65 reads |
 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
| 4 | 18 reads |
 The Overstory
| 4.05 | 229 reads |
 Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
| 3.63 | 10 reads |
 Atonement
| 3.89 | 270 reads |
 Americanah
| 4.24 | 244 reads |
 Cloud Atlas
| 3.92 | 399 reads |
 The Last Samurai
| 4.47 | 22 reads |
 Sing, Unburied, Sing
| 4.04 | 123 reads |
 White Teeth
| 3.9 | 120 reads |
 The Line of Beauty
| 3.97 | 25 reads |
 Salvage the Bones
| 3.75 | 54 reads |
 Citizen: An American Lyric
| 4.03 | 57 reads |
 Fun home
| 4 | 220 reads |
 Between the World and Me
| 4.54 | 414 reads |
 The Years
| 4.5 | 12 reads |
 The Savage Detectives
| 4.08 | 46 reads |
 A Visit from the Goon Squad
| 3.82 | 220 reads |
 H is for Hawk
| 3.91 | 91 reads |
 Small Things Like These
| 4.17 | 260 reads |
 A Brief History of Seven Killings
| 4.13 | 49 reads |
 Postwar
| 4.33 | 13 reads |
 The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 906 reads |
 The Argonauts
| 3.95 | 84 reads |
 The Goldfinch
| 3.97 | 505 reads |
 A Mercy
| 3.93 | 17 reads |
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.33 | 288 reads |
 The Vegetarian
| 3.5 | 288 reads |
 Trust
| 3.79 | 125 reads |
 Life After Life
| 3.63 | 156 reads |
 Train Dreams
| 4 | 41 reads |
 Runaway: Stories
| 3.79 | 22 reads |
 Tenth of December
| 4 | 117 reads |
 The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
| 4.49 | 40 reads |
 The Flamethrowers
| 3.38 | 20 reads |
 Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| 3.62 | 104 reads |
 Stay True
| 4.13 | 62 reads |
 Middlesex
| 4.18 | 276 reads |
 Heavy
| 4.63 | 34 reads |
 Demon Copperhead
| 4.43 | 264 reads |
 10:04
| 3.35 | 26 reads |
 Veronica
| 3.33 | 6 reads |
 The Great Believers
| 4.57 | 93 reads |
 The Plot Against America
| 3.68 | 71 reads |
 We the Animals
| 3.52 | 37 reads |
 Far from the Tree
| 4.4 | 22 reads |
 The Friend
| 3.9 | 52 reads |
 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| 4.52 | 139 reads |
 All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
| 4.5 | 4 reads |
 Childhood / Youth / Dependency
| 3.9 | 15 reads |
 Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
| 4.29 | 19 reads |
 The Passage of Power
| 4.64 | 15 reads |
 Olive Kitteridge
| 4.14 | 115 reads |
 Exit West
| 3.75 | 172 reads |
 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
| 4.16 | 1,111 reads |
 An American Marriage
| 3.95 | 162 reads |
 Septology
| 4.83 | 3 reads |
 A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
| 4.26 | 44 reads |
 The Story of the Lost Child
| 4.42 | 84 reads |
 Pulphead
| 4.1 | 15 reads |
 Hurricane Season
| 4.17 | 33 reads |
 When We Cease to Understand the World
| 4.1 | 81 reads |
 The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
| 4.24 | 108 reads |
 Pastoralia
| 4 | 41 reads |
 Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 3.95 | 17 reads |
 Detransition, Baby
| 3.94 | 113 reads |
 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
| 4 | 7 reads |
 The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
| 4 | 6 reads |
 The Sympathizer
| 4.02 | 146 reads |
 The Human Stain
| 0 | 3 reads |
 The Days of Abandonment
| 4.03 | 41 reads |
 Station Eleven
| 4.09 | 892 reads |
 On Beauty
| 3.8 | 66 reads |
 Bring Up the Bodies
| 4.37 | 86 reads |
 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| 4.33 | 7 reads |
 Men We Reaped: A Memoir
| 4.5 | 26 reads |
 Bel Canto
| 3.78 | 110 reads |
 How to Be Both
| 3.9 | 35 reads |
 Tree of Smoke
| 4.5 | 8 reads |