§Collection
TrueLit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.
The Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen, 2021
Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 2004
Tyll
Daniel Kehlmann, 2017
Nox
Anne Carson, 2010
Oblivion: Stories
David Foster Wallace, 2004
Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel
Scholastique Mukasonga, 2012
A Naked Singularity
Sergio de la Pava, 2008
Belladonna
Daša Drndić, 2012
Brothers
Yu Hua, 2005
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco, 2010
Animal Money
Michael Cisco, 2015
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño, 2000
Border Districts
Gerald Murnane, 2017
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon, 2013
Zone
Mathias Énard, 2008
Submission
Michel Houellebecq, 2015
HHhH
Laurent Binet, 2010
The Instructions
Adam Levin, 2010
The Adversary
Emmanuel Carrère, 2000
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree, 2018
Cannonball
Joseph McElroy, 2013
A General Theory of Oblivion
José Eduardo Agualusa, 2012
My Work
Olga Ravn, 2020
Tram 83
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, 2014
§ 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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