Learn The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

As chosen by the New York Times, learn the authors behind the 100 best books since 2000.

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• My Brilliant Friend — Elena Ferrante
• The Warmth of Other Suns — Isabel Wilkerson
• Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel
• The Known World — Edward P. Jones
• The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen
• 2666 — Roberto Bolaño
• The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead
• Austerlitz — W. G. Sebald
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• Gilead — Marilynne Robinson
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz
• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion
• The Road — Cormac McCarthy
• Outline — Rachel Cusk
• Pachinko — Min Jin Lee
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon
• The Sellout — Paul Beatty
• Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders
• Say Nothing — Patrick Radden Keefe
• Erasure — Percival Everett
• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City — Matthew Desmond
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers — Katherine Boo
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage — Alice Munro
• The Overstory — Richard Powers
• Random Family — Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
• Atonement — Ian McEwan
• Americanah — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
• The Last Samurai — Helen DeWitt
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
• White Teeth — Zadie Smith
• The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst
• Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward
• Citizen: An American Lyric — Claudia Rankine
• Fun Home — Alison Bechdel
• Between the World and Me — Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Years — Annie Ernaux
• The Savage Detectives — Roberto Bolaño
• A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan
• H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald
• Small Things like These — Claire Keegan
• A Brief History of Seven Killings — Marlon James
• Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 — Tony Judt
• The Fifth Season — N. K. Jemisin
• The Argonauts — Maggie Nelson
• The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt
• A Mercy — Toni Morrison
• Persepolis — Marjane Satrapi
• The Vegetarian — Han Kang
• Trust — Hernan Diaz

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