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The list on the NY Times website: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
Ordered according to the author’s last name:
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 2010
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela Shayevich, 2016
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson, 2013
The Sellout, Paul Beatty, 2015
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, 2006
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin, 2015
Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight, 2018
2666, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2008
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2007
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo, 2012
The Passage of Power, Robert Caro, 2012
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, 2000
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Outline, Rachel Cusk, 2015
The Collected Stories, Lydia Davis, 2010
Evicted, Matthew Desmond 2016
Trust, Hernan Diaz, 2022
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen; translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman, 2021
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt, 2000
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, 2005
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, 2010
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
The Years, Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer, 2018
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Erasure, Percival Everett, 2001
The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2005
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2012
The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2015
Septology, Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls, 2022
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 2001
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill, 2005
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid, 2017
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman, 2019
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 2004
Stay True, Hua Hsu, 2022
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James, 2014
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin, 2015
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson, 2011
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson, 2007
All Aunt Hagar’s Children, Edward P. Jones, 2006
The Known World, Edward P. Jones, 2003
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, 2018
Postwar, Tony Judt, 2005
The Vegetarian, Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith, 2016
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, 2021
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner, 2013
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2021
Heavy, Kiese Laymon, 2018
Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 2003
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, 2017
10 : 04, Ben Lerner, 2014
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, 2015
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, 2018
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, 2012
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, 2009
The Return, Hisham Matar, 2016
The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006
Atonement, Ian McEwan, 2002
Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie Hughes, 2020
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 2004
A Mercy, Toni Morrison, 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro, 2001
Runaway, Alice Munro, 2004
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, 2015
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez, 2018
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, 2001
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters, 2021
The Overstory, Richard Powers 2018
Citizen, Claudia Rankine 2014
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 2004
The Human Stain, Philip Roth, 2000
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, 2004
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, 2003
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, 2017
Pastoralia, George Saunders 2000
Tenth of December, George Saunders, 2013
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell, 2001
How to Be Both, Ali Smith, 2014
On Beauty, Zadie Smith, 2005
White Teeth, Zadie Smith, 2000
Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon, 2012
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, 2008
Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, 2013
We the Animals, Justin Torres, 2011
Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward, 2013
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 2011
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 2017
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 2006
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
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The list on the NY Times website: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
Ordered according to the author’s last name:
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 2010
Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela Shayevich, 2016
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson, 2013
The Sellout, Paul Beatty, 2015
Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, 2006
A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin, 2015
Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight, 2018
2666, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2008
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2007
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo, 2012
The Passage of Power, Robert Caro, 2012
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, 2000
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Outline, Rachel Cusk, 2015
The Collected Stories, Lydia Davis, 2010
Evicted, Matthew Desmond 2016
Trust, Hernan Diaz, 2022
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007
The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen; translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman, 2021
The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt, 2000
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, 2005
A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, 2010
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001
The Years, Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer, 2018
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002
Erasure, Percival Everett, 2001
The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2005
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2012
The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2015
Septology, Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls, 2022
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 2001
Veronica, Mary Gaitskill, 2005
Exit West, Mohsin Hamid, 2017
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman, 2019
The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 2004
Stay True, Hua Hsu, 2022
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James, 2014
The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin, 2015
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson, 2011
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson, 2007
All Aunt Hagar’s Children, Edward P. Jones, 2006
The Known World, Edward P. Jones, 2003
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, 2018
Postwar, Tony Judt, 2005
The Vegetarian, Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith, 2016
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, 2021
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, 2022
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner, 2013
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2021
Heavy, Kiese Laymon, 2018
Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 2003
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, 2017
10 : 04, Ben Lerner, 2014
H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, 2015
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, 2018
Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, 2014
Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, 2012
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, 2009
The Return, Hisham Matar, 2016
The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006
Atonement, Ian McEwan, 2002
Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie Hughes, 2020
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 2004
A Mercy, Toni Morrison, 2008
The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro, 2001
Runaway, Alice Munro, 2004
The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, 2015
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015
The Friend, Sigrid Nunez, 2018
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, 2001
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters, 2021
The Overstory, Richard Powers 2018
Citizen, Claudia Rankine 2014
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 2004
The Human Stain, Philip Roth, 2000
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, 2004
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, 2003
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, 2017
Pastoralia, George Saunders 2000
Tenth of December, George Saunders, 2013
Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell, 2001
How to Be Both, Ali Smith, 2014
On Beauty, Zadie Smith, 2005
White Teeth, Zadie Smith, 2000
Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon, 2012
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, 2008
Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, 2013
We the Animals, Justin Torres, 2011
Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward, 2013
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 2011
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 2017
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 2016
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 2006
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, 2022
0:00 Intro
1:38 Housekeeping
4:36 100-81
17:07 80-61
31:10 60-41
41:22 40-21
55:30 20-1
Amuse me in my inbox - rachelle.e.swearingen (at) gmail.com
Befriend me on Goodreads -goodreads.com/user/show/139310469-shelly-swearingen
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