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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, 2011
James
Percival Everett, 2024
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, 2015
Trust
Hernan Diaz, 2022
11/22/63
Stephen King, 2011
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, 2008
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, 2021
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, 2018
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, 2019
North Woods
Daniel Mason, 2023
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin, 2015
2666
Roberto Bolaño, 2004
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, 2016
Just Kids
Patti Smith, 2010
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, 2019
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, 2002
Know My Name
Chanel Miller, 2019
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward, 2017
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner, 2021
§ 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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