§Collection
TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.
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Roberto Bolaño, 2004
The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante, 2015
My Struggle: Book 1
Karl Ove Knausgård, 2009
Solenoid
Mircea Cărtărescu, 2015
Septology
Jon Fosse, 2022
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, 2017
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald, 2001
The Sellout
Paul Beatty, 2015
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, 2006
Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon, 2006
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor, 2017
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, 2003
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk, 2010
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson, 2004
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt, 2000
The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy, 2022
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt, 1993
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace, 2011
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk, 2007
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke, 2019
The Years
Annie Ernaux, 2008
§ 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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