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TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke, 2004
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi, 2003
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, 2004
2666
Roberto Bolaño, 2004
The Idiot
Elif Batuman, 2017
Outline
Rachel Cusk, 2014
My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgård, 2009
The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante, 2015
Septology
Jon Fosse, 2022
Seeing
José Saramago, 2004
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, 2019
Secondhand Time
Svetlana Alexievich, 2013
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, 2006
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami, 2001
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang, 2002
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, 2016
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee, 2017
House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski, 1999
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 1993
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, 2019
§ About this list
- Books
- 99
- Published
- 1993–2023
- Average rating
- 4.0 / 5 across 22,498 ratings
- Genres
- Classics, History, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Most-rated on TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
- 1Piranesi · Susanna Clarke
- 2The Road · Cormac McCarthy
- 3Station Eleven · Emily St. John Mandel
Common questions about TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
- How many books are on TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century?
- TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century has 99 books, published between 1993 and 2023.
- Which book on TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century is the most popular?
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is the most-rated book on the list, with 1,873 ratings and a 4.2 average.
- What is the highest-rated book on TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century?
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond has the highest average rating among the list's books with at least 100 ratings: 4.6 out of 5.
- Where should I start with TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century?
- Start with Piranesi, The Road and Station Eleven: the three most-rated books on the list.
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- The books on this list are tagged Classics, History, Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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