NYT 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
Published by The New York Times, July 2024. The full list is 100 titles voted on by 503 authors, critics and book-lovers. Below is the top 10 plus the entries I've already read.
6 read so far.
Top 10
| # | Title | Author | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | My Brilliant Friend | Elena Ferrante | — |
| 2 | The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson | — |
| 3 | Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | — |
| 4 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones | — |
| 5 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | — |
| 6 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | — |
| 7 | The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | — |
| 8 | Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | — |
| 9 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | ✓ |
| 10 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | — |
Already read (broader list)
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Tom Lake | Ann Patchett |
| The Dutch House | Ann Patchett |
| Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett |
| Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver |
Tip: this list is hand-tracked from the NYT interactive page. The full 100 lives in the editorial pipeline — to extend it, edit src/data/reading-list.json.