Readers' Choice 100 best books of the 21st century

 

When the New York Times Book Review published their list of the 100 best books of the 21st century, they knew readers would want a say, and they gave it.  Readers were given a chance to vote for their own list and make their voices heard!

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (No. 61 on the Book Review’s list)

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (No. 46 on the Book Review’s list)

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (No. 15 on the Book Review’s list)

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (No. 76 on the Book Review’s list)

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein (No. 1 on the Book Review’s list)

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (No. 9 on the Book Review’s list)

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (No. 93 on the Book Review’s list)

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Overstory by Richard Powers (No. 24 on the Book Review’s list)

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (No. 7 on the Book Review’s list)

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (No. 3 on the Book Review’s list)

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (No. 13 on the Book Review’s list)

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (No. 18 on the Book Review’s list)

Atonement by Ian McEwan (No. 26 on the Book Review’s list)

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (No. 59 on the Book Review’s list)

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (No. 27 on the Book Review’s list)

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (No. 16 on the Book Review’s list)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (No. 2 on the Book Review’s list)

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett (No. 98 on the Book Review’s list)

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (No. 10 on the Book Review’s list)

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (No. 5 on the Book Review’s list)

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (No. 19 on the Book Review’s list)

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (No. 39 on the Book Review’s list)

Circe by Madeline Miller

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (No. 28 on the Book Review’s list)

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (No. 12 on the Book Review’s list)

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (No. 64 on the Book Review’s list)

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout (No. 74 on the Book Review’s list)

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson (No. 51 on the Book Review’s list)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (No. 11 on the Book Review’s list)

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (No. 36 on the Book Review’s list)

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

There There by Tommy Orange

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

James by Percival Everett

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

Trust by Hernan Diaz (No. 50 on the Book Review’s list)

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (No. 41 on the Book Review’s list)

White Teeth by Zadie Smith (No. 31 on the Book Review’s list)

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

North Woods by Daniel Mason

The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen (No. 90 on the Book Review’s list)

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (No. 44 on the Book Review’s list)

2666 by Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer (No. 6 on the Book Review’s list)

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (No. 21 on the Book Review’s list)

Just Kids: An Autobiography by Patti Smith

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward (No. 30 on the Book Review’s list)

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

Tenth of December by George Saunders (No. 54 on the Book Review’s list)

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 9No. 65 on the Book Review’s list)

The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeannette Walls

In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman; translated by Henning Koch