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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling, 2007
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2019
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, 2021
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, 2014
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari, 2011
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami, 2001
1Q84
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel, 20
Deacon King Kong
James McBride, 2020
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, 2009
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, 2023
Let the Great World Spin
Colum McCann, 2009
Tenth of December
George Saunders, 2012
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, 2016
Life of Pi
Yann Martel, 2001
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, 2019
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth, 2004
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, 2005
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir, 2021
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, 2009
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, 2022
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, 2022
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini, 2000
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett, 2020
§ 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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- 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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