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100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
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.
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman, 1997
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward, 2013
How to Be Both
Ali Smith, 2014
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson, 2004
§ About this list
- Books
- 100
- Published
- 1967–2022
- Average rating
- 4.1 / 5 across 22,820 ratings
- Genres
- Fiction, Classics, History, Fantasy
Most-rated on 100 New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
- 1The Road · Cormac McCarthy
- 2Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow · Gabrielle Zevin
- 3The Fifth Season · N. K. Jemisin
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