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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, 2014
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, 2016
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 1993
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, 2017
Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover, 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante, 2011
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, 2008
The Overstory
Richard Powers, 2018
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, 2016
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel, 2009
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, 2006
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, 2017
Atonement
Ian McEwan, 2001
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon, 2000
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, 2016
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, 2019
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett, 2001
§ About this list
- Books
- 100
- Published
- 1969–2024
- Average rating
- 4.2 / 5 across 72,273 ratings
- Genres
- Classics, Historical Fiction, History, Fantasy
Most-rated on Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
- 1The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
- 2Project Hail Mary · Andy Weir
- 3Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows · J.K. Rowling
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- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is the most-rated book on the list, with 5,777 ratings and a 4.1 average.
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- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.7 out of 5.
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