NYT's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review. See the whole list here.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Fiction
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
Cloud Atlas: The epic bestseller, shortlisted for the Booker Prize by David Mitchell
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Category: Fiction
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks - Now a major motion picture- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Includes a new Afterword by David Mitchell A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, ...Show more
Atonement by Ian McEwan
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Category: Fiction
On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen- year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country hosue. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.By the ...Show more
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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Category: Fiction | Series: Gilead
The 2004 Pulitzer Prize winning novelA New York Times Top-Ten Book of 2004Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionA PBS Great American Read selection Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations, from the Civil War to the 2 ...Show more
A Brief History of Seven Killings: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 by Marlon James
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Category: Fiction
JAMAICA, 1976 Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a dazzling display of masterful storytelling exploring this near-mythic event. Spanning three decades and ...Show more
Nickel and Dimed: Undercover in Low-Wage America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Biography
A contemporary classic that has changed the way we see America.
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, am ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
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Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
The Friend: Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and a New York Times bestseller by Sigrid Nunez
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Category: Fiction
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog - now in a stunning new edition as part of Virago's 50th anniversary Five Gold Reads seriesWINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DU ...Show more
Frederick Douglass - Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
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Category: History
**Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in History** *Winner of the Bancroft, Parkman, Los Angeles Times (biography), Lincoln, Plutarch, and Christopher Awards* Named one of the Best Books of 2018 by The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The ...Show more
Americanah 10th Anniversary Edition by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Fiction
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a powerful new novel--a story of love and race centred around a young man and woman from Nigeria who face difficult choices and challenges in the countries they c ...Show more
Septology by Jon Fosse
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Category: Fiction
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-fa ...Show more