The 100 Greatest 21st Century Books of All Time

The following is an aggregate list sourced from over 480 "Greatest Books of All Time" lists curated by TheGreatestBooks. The full list can be found here. (updated as of 2/14/25)
  1. White Teeth - Zadie Smith (2000)
  2. Atonement - Ian McEwan (2001)
  3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon (2000)
  4. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen (2001)
  5. The Road - Cormac McCarthy (2006)
  6. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
  7. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño (2004)
  8. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz (2007)
  9. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson (2004)
  10. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
  11. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel (2009)
  12. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (2004)
  13. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald (2001)
  14. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi (2000)
  15. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (2005)
  16. A Visit From The Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan (2010)
  17. The Human Stain - Philip Roth (2000)
  18. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
  19. The Known World - Edward P. Jones (2003)
  20. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante (2011)
  21. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (2003)
  22. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers (2000)
  23. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2005)
  24. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead (2016)
  25. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2001)
  26. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
  27. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters (2002)
  28. The Warmth Of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson (2010)
  29. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (2012)
  30. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth (2004)
  31. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin (2015)
  32. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
  33. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
  34. The Sellout - Paul Beatty (2015)
  35. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2006)
  36. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt (2013)
  37. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood (2000)
  38. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders (2017)
  39. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett (2001)
  40. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey (2000)
  41. The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa (2000)
  42. Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates (2000)
  43. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling (2000)
  44. The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright (2006)
  45. The Years - Annie Ernaux (2008)
  46. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
  47. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot (2010)
  48. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout (2008)
  49. Postwar - Tony Judt (2005)
  50. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel (2006)
  51. The Vegetarian - Han Kang (2007)
  52. Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward (2017)
  53. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander (2010)
  54. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling (2005)
  55. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James (2014)
  56. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold (2002)
  57. My Struggle - Karl Ove Knausgaard (2009)
  58. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson (2013)
  59. Outline - Rachel Cusk (2014)
  60. The Duke and I - Julia Quinn (2000)
  61. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris (2000)
  62. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)
  63. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke (2004)
  64. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo (2012)
  65. Tenth of December - George Saunders (2013)
  66. The Beauty Of The Husband - Anne Carson (2001)
  67. Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward (2011)
  68. The Round House - Louise Erdrich (2012)
  69. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (2003)
  70. The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt (2000)
  71. The Overstory - Richard Powers (2018)
  72. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan (2006)
  73. Normal People - Sally Rooney (2018)
  74. Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich (2013)
  75. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson (2005)
  76. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro (2001)
  77. On Writing - Stephen King (2000)
  78. Erasure - Percival Everett (2001)
  79. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (2011)
  80. Nickel And Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
  81. Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel (2014)
  82. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk (2009)
  83. Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (2011)
  84. Snow - Orhan Pamuk (2002)
  85. Moneyball - Michael M. Lewis (2003)
  86. The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
  87. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr (2014)
  88. The Devil In The White City - Erik Larson (2003)
  89. Evicted - Matthew Desmond (2016)
  90. Runaway - Alice Munro (2004)
  91. Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman (2001)
  92. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (2010)
  93. Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
  94. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
  95. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill (2005)
  96. Experience - Martin Amis (2000)
  97. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (2008)
  98. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware (2000)
  99. Far From the Tree - Andrew Solomon (2012)
  100. Train Dreams - Denis Johnson (2002)

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