100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
- July 12, 2024
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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.
| #1 |  My Brilliant Friend
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| #2 |  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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| #3 |  Wolf Hall
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| #4 |  The Known World
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| #5 |  The Corrections
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| #6 |  2666
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| #7 |  The Underground Railroad
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| #8 |  Austerlitz
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| #9 |  Never Let Me Go
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| #10 |  Gilead
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| #11 |  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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| #12 |  The Year of Magical Thinking
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| #13 |  The Road
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| #14 |  Outline
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| #15 |  Pachinko
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| #16 |  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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| #17 |  The Sellout
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| #18 |  Lincoln in the Bardo
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| #19 |  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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| #20 |  Erasure
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| #21 |  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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| #22 |  Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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| #23 |  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
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| #24 |  The Overstory
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| #25 |  Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
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| #26 |  Atonement
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| #27 |  Americanah
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| #28 |  Cloud Atlas
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| #29 |  The Last Samurai
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| #30 |  Sing, Unburied, Sing
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| #31 |  White Teeth
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| #32 |  The Line of Beauty
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| #33 |  Salvage the Bones
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| #34 |  Citizen: An American Lyric
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| #35 |  Fun home
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| #36 |  Between the World and Me
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| #37 |  The Years
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| #38 |  The Savage Detectives
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| #39 |  A Visit from the Goon Squad
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| #40 |  H is for Hawk
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| #41 |  Small Things Like These
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| #42 |  A Brief History of Seven Killings
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| #43 |  Postwar
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| #44 |  The Fifth Season
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| #45 |  The Argonauts
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| #46 |  The Goldfinch
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| #47 |  A Mercy
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| #48 |  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
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| #49 |  The Vegetarian
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| #50 |  Trust
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| #51 |  Life After Life
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| #52 |  Train Dreams
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| #53 |  Runaway: Stories
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| #54 |  Tenth of December
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| #55 |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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| #56 |  The Flamethrowers
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| #57 |  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
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| #58 |  Stay True
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| #59 |  Middlesex
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| #60 |  Heavy
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| #61 |  Demon Copperhead
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| #62 |  10:04
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| #63 |  Veronica
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| #64 |  The Great Believers
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| #65 |  The Plot Against America
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| #66 |  We the Animals
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| #67 |  Far from the Tree
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| #68 |  The Friend
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| #69 |  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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| #70 |  All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
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| #71 |  Childhood / Youth / Dependency
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| #72 |  Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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| #73 |  The Passage of Power
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| #74 |  Olive Kitteridge
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| #75 |  Exit West
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| #76 |  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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| #77 |  An American Marriage
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| #78 |  Septology
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| #79 |  A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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| #80 |  The Story of the Lost Child
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| #81 |  Pulphead
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| #82 |  Hurricane Season
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| #83 |  When We Cease to Understand the World
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| #84 |  The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
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| #85 |  Pastoralia
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| #86 |  Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
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| #87 |  Detransition, Baby
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| #88 |  The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
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| #89 |  The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
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| #90 |  The Sympathizer
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| #91 |  The Human Stain
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| #92 |  The Days of Abandonment
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| #93 |  Station Eleven
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| #94 |  On Beauty
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| #95 |  Bring Up the Bodies
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| #96 |  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
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| #97 |  Men We Reaped: A Memoir
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| #98 |  Bel Canto
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| #99 |  How to Be Both
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| #100 |  Tree of Smoke
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