§Collection
TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen, 2010
Inherent Vice
Thomas Pynchon, 2009
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century
Olga Ravn, 2018
The Maniac
Benjamín Labatut, 2023
Milkman
Anna Burns, 2018
Happening
Annie Ernaux, 2000
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli, 2017
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor, 2017
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James, 2014
Flights
Olga Tokarczuk, 2007
Train Dreams
Denis Johnson, 2002
Erasure
Percival Everett, 2001
Solenoid
Mircea Cărtărescu, 2015
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald, 2001
Against the Day
Thomas Pynchon, 2006
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk, 2010
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt, 2000
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace, 2011
The Years
Annie Ernaux, 2008
Seiobo There Below
László Krasznahorkai, 2008
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
László Krasznahorkai, 2016
Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann, 2019
Trieste
Daša Drndić, 2007
Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner, 2011
§ 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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