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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.
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson, 2002
The Vegetarian
Han Kang, 2007
Nox
Anne Carson, 2010
Oblivion: Stories
David Foster Wallace, 2004
Erasure
Percival Everett, 2001
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Susanna Clarke, 2004
Tenth of December
George Saunders, 2012
Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel
Scholastique Mukasonga, 2012
A Naked Singularity
Sergio de la Pava, 2008
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, 2019
Foster
Claire Keegan, 2010
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang, 2002
The Idiot
Elif Batuman, 2017
Belladonna
Daša Drndić, 2012
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, 2016
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, 2016
Brothers
Yu Hua, 2005
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado, 2017
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco, 2010
Animal Money
Michael Cisco, 2015
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters, 2021
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong, 2019
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi, 2003
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño, 2000
§ 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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