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.
| #1 |  My Brilliant Friend
| 4.05 | 255 reads |
| #2 |  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.53 | 71 reads |
| #3 |  Wolf Hall
| 3.93 | 178 reads |
| #4 |  The Known World
| 3.4 | 31 reads |
| #5 |  The Corrections
| 3.89 | 134 reads |
| #6 |  2666
| 3.87 | 78 reads |
| #7 |  The Underground Railroad
| 4.06 | 326 reads |
| #8 |  Austerlitz
| 4.42 | 17 reads |
| #9 |  Never Let Me Go
| 3.81 | 726 reads |
| #10 |  Gilead
| 4.06 | 97 reads |
| #11 |  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
| 3.77 | 220 reads |
| #12 |  The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.06 | 199 reads |
| #13 |  The Road
| 4.04 | 988 reads |
| #14 |  Outline
| 3.67 | 82 reads |
| #15 |  Pachinko
| 4.25 | 386 reads |
| #16 |  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
| 4.23 | 175 reads |
| #17 |  The Sellout
| 3.78 | 86 reads |
| #18 |  Lincoln in the Bardo
| 3.91 | 211 reads |
| #19 |  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
| 4.47 | 147 reads |
| #20 |  Erasure
| 4.52 | 37 reads |
| #21 |  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.58 | 129 reads |
| #22 |  Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.97 | 65 reads |
| #23 |  Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
| 4 | 18 reads |
| #24 |  The Overstory
| 4.05 | 229 reads |
| #25 |  Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
| 3.63 | 10 reads |
| #26 |  Atonement
| 3.89 | 270 reads |
| #27 |  Americanah
| 4.24 | 244 reads |
| #28 |  Cloud Atlas
| 3.92 | 399 reads |
| #29 |  The Last Samurai
| 4.47 | 22 reads |
| #30 |  Sing, Unburied, Sing
| 4.04 | 123 reads |
| #31 |  White Teeth
| 3.9 | 120 reads |
| #32 |  The Line of Beauty
| 3.97 | 25 reads |
| #33 |  Salvage the Bones
| 3.75 | 54 reads |
| #34 |  Citizen: An American Lyric
| 4.03 | 57 reads |
| #35 |  Fun home
| 4 | 220 reads |
| #36 |  Between the World and Me
| 4.54 | 414 reads |
| #37 |  The Years
| 4.5 | 12 reads |
| #38 |  The Savage Detectives
| 4.08 | 46 reads |
| #39 |  A Visit from the Goon Squad
| 3.82 | 220 reads |
| #40 |  H is for Hawk
| 3.91 | 91 reads |
| #41 |  Small Things Like These
| 4.17 | 257 reads |
| #42 |  A Brief History of Seven Killings
| 4.13 | 49 reads |
| #43 |  Postwar
| 4.33 | 13 reads |
| #44 |  The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 906 reads |
| #45 |  The Argonauts
| 3.95 | 84 reads |
| #46 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.97 | 505 reads |
| #47 |  A Mercy
| 3.93 | 17 reads |
| #48 |  Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.34 | 285 reads |
| #49 |  The Vegetarian
| 3.5 | 288 reads |
| #50 |  Trust
| 3.79 | 125 reads |
| #51 |  Life After Life
| 3.63 | 156 reads |
| #52 |  Train Dreams
| 4 | 41 reads |
| #53 |  Runaway: Stories
| 3.79 | 22 reads |
| #54 |  Tenth of December
| 4 | 117 reads |
| #55 |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
| 4.49 | 40 reads |
| #56 |  The Flamethrowers
| 3.38 | 20 reads |
| #57 |  Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
| 3.62 | 104 reads |
| #58 |  Stay True
| 4.13 | 62 reads |
| #59 |  Middlesex
| 4.18 | 276 reads |
| #60 |  Heavy
| 4.63 | 34 reads |
| #61 |  Demon Copperhead
| 4.43 | 264 reads |
| #62 |  10:04
| 3.35 | 26 reads |
| #63 |  Veronica
| 3.33 | 6 reads |
| #64 |  The Great Believers
| 4.56 | 92 reads |
| #65 |  The Plot Against America
| 3.68 | 71 reads |
| #66 |  We the Animals
| 3.52 | 37 reads |
| #67 |  Far from the Tree
| 4.4 | 22 reads |
| #68 |  The Friend
| 3.9 | 52 reads |
| #69 |  The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
| 4.52 | 139 reads |
| #70 |  All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories
| 4.5 | 4 reads |
| #71 |  Childhood / Youth / Dependency
| 3.9 | 15 reads |
| #72 |  Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
| 4.29 | 19 reads |
| #73 |  The Passage of Power
| 4.64 | 15 reads |
| #74 |  Olive Kitteridge
| 4.14 | 115 reads |
| #75 |  Exit West
| 3.75 | 172 reads |
| #76 |  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
| 4.16 | 1,111 reads |
| #77 |  An American Marriage
| 3.95 | 162 reads |
| #78 |  Septology
| 4.83 | 3 reads |
| #79 |  A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
| 4.26 | 44 reads |
| #80 |  The Story of the Lost Child
| 4.42 | 84 reads |
| #81 |  Pulphead
| 4.1 | 15 reads |
| #82 |  Hurricane Season
| 4.17 | 33 reads |
| #83 |  When We Cease to Understand the World
| 4.1 | 81 reads |
| #84 |  The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
| 4.24 | 108 reads |
| #85 |  Pastoralia
| 4 | 41 reads |
| #86 |  Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom
| 3.95 | 17 reads |
| #87 |  Detransition, Baby
| 3.94 | 113 reads |
| #88 |  The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
| 4 | 7 reads |
| #89 |  The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
| 4 | 6 reads |
| #90 |  The Sympathizer
| 4.02 | 146 reads |
| #91 |  The Human Stain
| 0 | 3 reads |
| #92 |  The Days of Abandonment
| 4.03 | 41 reads |
| #93 |  Station Eleven
| 4.09 | 892 reads |
| #94 |  On Beauty
| 3.8 | 66 reads |
| #95 |  Bring Up the Bodies
| 4.37 | 86 reads |
| #96 |  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
| 4.33 | 7 reads |
| #97 |  Men We Reaped: A Memoir
| 4.5 | 26 reads |
| #98 |  Bel Canto
| 3.78 | 110 reads |
| #99 |  How to Be Both
| 3.9 | 35 reads |
| #100 |  Tree of Smoke
| 4.5 | 8 reads |