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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, 2019
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, 2003
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi, 2016
James
Percival Everett, 2024
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls, 2005
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot, 2009
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, 2021
Know My Name
Chanel Miller, 2019
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, 2016
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, 2019
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr, 2021
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon, 2000
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson, 2014
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, 2019
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe, 2018
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson, 2020
Atonement
Ian McEwan, 2001
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo, 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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