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. The Book Review also gave its readers a chance to vote on their own list. Click here to see what they chose!
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 2007
How to Be Both by Ali Smith 2014
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 2001
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward 2013
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya
Hartman 2019
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 2012
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 2005
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 2014
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann
Goldstein 2005
The Human Stain by Philip Roth 2000
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015
The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar 2016
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 2009
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 2021
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight 2018
Pastoralia by George Saunders 2000
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha
Mukherjee 2010
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut;
translated by Adrian Nathan West 2021
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie
Hughes 2020
Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan 2011
The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante; translated by
Ann Goldstein 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin 2015
Septology by Jon Fosse; translated by Damion
Searls 2022
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 2018
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle
Zevin 2022
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 2017
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 2008
The Passage of Power by Robert Caro 2012
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela
Shayevich 2016
The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; translated by
Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman 2021
All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones 2006
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 2010
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 2018
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon 2012
We the Animals by Justin Torres 2011
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 2004
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 2018
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 2005
10:04 by Ben Lerner 2014
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 2022
Heavy by Kiese Laymon 2018
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 2002
Stay True by Hua Hsu 2022
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich 2001
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner 2013
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright 2006
Tenth of December by George Saunders 2013
Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro 2004
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 2011
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 2013
Trust by Hernan Diaz 2022
The Vegetarian by Han Kang; translated by Deborah
Smith 2016
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 2003
A Mercy by Toni Morrison 2008
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 2013
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson 2015
The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin 2015
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt 2005
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 2014
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 2021
H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 2015
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 2010
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño; translated by
Natasha Wimmer 2007
The Years by Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L.
Strayer 2018 (not available in the JCLC)
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel 2006
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine 2014
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 2011
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 2004
White Teeth by Zadie Smith 2000
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 2017
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 2000
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 2004
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
Atonement by Ian McEwan 2002
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 2003
The Overstory by Richard Powers 2018
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice
Munro 2001
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 2016
Erasure by Percival Everett 2001
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 2019
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 2017
The Sellout by Paul Beatty 2015
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael
Chabon 2000
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 2017
Outline by Rachel Cusk 2015
The Road by Cormac McCarthy 2006
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 2005
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 2007
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 2004
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea
Bell 2001
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 2016
2666 by Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha
Wimmer 2008
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2001
The Known World by Edward P. Jones 2003
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 2009
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson 2010
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann
Goldstein 2012
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