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Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, 2017
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, 2016
The Overstory
Richard Powers, 2018
There There
Tommy Orange, 2018
Just Kids
Patti Smith, 2010
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart, 2020
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz, 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion, 2005
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, 2009
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett, 2023
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai, 2018
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, 2021
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward, 2017
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese, 2023
North Woods
Daniel Mason, 2023
Tenth of December
George Saunders, 2012
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
James McBride, 2023
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
Trust
Hernan Diaz, 2022
The Bee Sting
Paul Murray, 2022
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett, 2001
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
§ 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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