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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, 2004
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
Normal People
Sally Rooney, 2018
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese, 2009
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, 2018
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan, 2010
Circe
Madeline Miller, 2018
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, 2021
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak, 1993
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, 2003
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, 2023
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, 2005
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, 2019
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai, 2018
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout, 2008
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini, 1969
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson, 2013
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz, 2007
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, 2023
There There
Tommy Orange, 2018
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller, 2011
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, 2022
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, 2019
§ 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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