Reader's Poll of 100 Best Books of 21st Century

Demon Copperhead : a novel [2022]

Barbara Kingsolver

All the light we cannot see : a novel [2014]

Anthony Doerr

A gentleman in Moscow [2016]

Amor Towles

The goldfinch [2013]

Donna Tartt

Pachinko [2017]

Min Jin Lee

Educated : a memoir [2018]

Tara Westover

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow [2022]

Gabrielle Zevin

My brilliant friend : childhood, adolescence [2012]

Elena Ferrante

Never let me go [2010]

Kazuo Ishiguro

Station eleven : a novel [2014]

Emily St John Mandel

A little life : a novel [2015]

Hanya Yanagihara

The overstory : a novel [2018]

Richard Powers

The underground railroad : a novel [2016]

Colson Whitehead

Wolf Hall : a novel [2009]

Hilary Mantel

The road [2006]

Cormac McCarthy

Lincoln in the Bardo [book club] : a novel [2017]

George Saunders

Atonement : a novel [2001]

Ian McEwan

Middlesex [2002]

Jeffrey Eugenides

Americanah : a novel [2015]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a… [2000]

Michael Chabon

Homegoing : a novel [2016]

Yaa Gyasi

Hamnet : a novel of the plague [2020]

Maggie O'Farrell

The warmth of other suns : the epic story of… [2010]

Isabel Wilkerson

Bel canto : a novel [2001]

Ann Patchett

Gilead [2004]

Marilynne Robinson

The corrections [2001]

Jonathan Franzen

Normal people : a novel [2018]

Sally Rooney

Cutting for stone : a novel [2009]

Abraham Verghese

Say nothing : a true story of murder and memory… [2019]

Patrick Radden Keefe

A visit from the Goon Squad [2010]

Jennifer Egan

Circe : a novel [2018]

Madeline Miller

Cloud cuckoo land : a novel [2021]

Anthony Doerr

The book thief [2005]

Markus Zusak

Cloud atlas : a novel [2012]

David Mitchell

The covenant of water : a novel [2023]

Abraham Verghese

The year of magical thinking [2005]

Joan Didion

The nickel boys : a novel [2019]

Colson Whitehead

The great believers [2018]

Rebecca Makkai

Olive Kitteridge [2008]

Elizabeth Strout

The kite runner [2003]

Khaled Hosseini

Life after life : a novel [2013]

Kate Atkinson

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao [2007]

Junot Díaz

Between the world and me [margin project book] [2015]

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store [2023]

James McBride

There there [2019]

Tommy Orange

The song of Achilles [2012]

Madeline Miller

Lessons in chemistry : [a novel] [2022]

Bonnie Garmus

On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel [2019]

Ocean Vuong

Gone girl : a novel [2012]

Gillian Flynn

James : a novel [2024]

Percival Everett

Caste : the origins of our discontents [2020]

Isabel Wilkerson

The nightingale [2015]

Kristin Hannah

Trust [2022]

Hernán Díaz

11/22/63 : a novel [2011]

Stephen King

Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom,… [2020]

Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Hunger Games [2008]

Suzanne Collins

Small things like these [2021]

Claire Keegan

White teeth : a novel [2000]

Zadie Smith

Where the crawdads sing [2018]

Delia Owens

The Dutch house : a novel [2019]

Ann Patchett

North woods : a novel [2023]

Daniel Mason

The sympathizer [2015]

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The fifth season [2015]

N K Jemisin

2666 [2008]

Roberto Bolaño

Evicted : poverty and profit in the American… [2016]

Matthew Desmond

Just kids [2010]

Patti Smith

Piranesi [2020]

Susanna Clarke

The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and… [2003]

Erik Larson

Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders… [2017]

David Grann

Know my name : a memoir [2019]

Chanel Miller

Sing, unburied, sing : a novel [2017]

Jesmyn Ward

Crying in H Mart : a memoir [2021]

Michelle Zauner

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [2007]

J K Rowling

Klara and the sun [book club] [2021]

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lincoln highway [2021]

Amor Towles

Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption [2014]

Bryan Stevenson

Sapiens : a brief history of humankind [2015]

Yuval N Harari

Kafka on the shore [2005]

Haruki Murakami

1Q84 [2011]

Haruki Murakami

Deacon King Kong : a novel [2020]

James McBride

The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks [2010]

Rebecca Skloot

Tom Lake : a novel [2023]

Ann Patchett

Tenth of December : stories [2013]

George Saunders

When breath becomes air [2016]

Paul Kalanithi

Life of Pi : a novel [2001]

Yann Martel

Girl, woman, other [2019]

Bernardine Evaristo

The plot against America [2004]

Philip Roth

The glass castle : a memoir [2005]

Jeannette Walls

In the dream house : a memoir [2019]

Carmen Maria Machado

Project Hail Mary : a novel [2021]

Andy Weir

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead [2018]

Olga Tokarczuk

Remarkably bright creatures : a novel [2022]

Shelby Van Pelt

The bee sting [2023]

Paul Murray

A thousand splendid suns [2007]

Khaled Hosseini

The vanishing half [2020]

Brit Bennett

My year of rest and relaxation [2018]

Ottessa Moshfegh

Shuggie Bain : a novel [2020]

Douglas Stuart

Empire of pain : the secret history of the… [2021]

Patrick Radden Keefe

A man called Ove : a novel [2014]

Fredrik Backman