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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens, 2018
11/22/63
Stephen King, 2011
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr, 2014
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman, 2012
Normal People
Sally Rooney, 2018
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2019
Life of Pi
Yann Martel, 2001
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami, 2001
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus, 2022
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara, 2008
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah, 2015
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner, 2021
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, 2016
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, 2016
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt, 2022
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, 2017
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 1993
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson, 2002
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
Common questions about Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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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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