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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.
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell, 2003
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan, 2021
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead, 2016
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy, 2005
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead, 2019
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2013
The Vegetarian
Han Kang, 2007
Atonement
Ian McEwan, 2001
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders, 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, 2016
Foster
Claire Keegan, 2010
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz, 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk, 2009
The Human Stain
Philip Roth, 2000
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado, 2017
Tenth of December
George Saunders, 2012
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters, 2021
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut, 2019
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher, 2009
White Teeth
Zadie Smith, 2000
The Sellout
Paul Beatty, 2015
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami, 2009
§ 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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