Shelly Swearingen | Readers Pick Their 100 Best Books of the 21st Century from @nytimes @Shellyish | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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NY Times video: youtu.be/0y65IUtMwHY
The list on the NY Times website: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
Reader's list link: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/reader-best-books-21st-century.html
The list in order by the author's last name:
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life Afer Life by Kate Atkinson
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman; translated by Henning Koch
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
2666, Roberto Bolano; translated by Natasha Wimmer
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Evicted, Matthew Desmond
Trust, Hernan Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
James, Percival Everett
My Brilliant Friend. Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanthi
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
11/22/63, Stephen King
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
North Woods, Daniel Mason
Deacon King Kong, James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Know My Name, Chanel Miller
Circe, Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
1Q84, Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Ruben and Philip Gabriel
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
There There, Tommy Orange
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Tenth of December, George Saunders
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Just Kids, Patti Smith
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk; translated by
Antonia Lloyd- Jones
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
Sing, Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Educated, Tara Westover
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zeven
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
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I mention:
Greg @SupposedlyFun
NY Times video: youtu.be/0y65IUtMwHY
The list on the NY Times website: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html
Reader's list link: nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/reader-best-books-21st-century.html
The list in order by the author's last name:
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Life Afer Life by Kate Atkinson
A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman; translated by Henning Koch
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
2666, Roberto Bolano; translated by Natasha Wimmer
Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
Evicted, Matthew Desmond
Trust, Hernan Diaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr
A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan
Middlesex, Jeffery Eugenides
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
James, Percival Everett
My Brilliant Friend. Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Fifth Season, N. K. Jemisin
When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanthi
Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
11/22/63, Stephen King
Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver
The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
North Woods, Daniel Mason
Deacon King Kong, James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Know My Name, Chanel Miller
Circe, Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
1Q84, Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Ruben and Philip Gabriel
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami; translated by Philip Gabriel
The Bee Sting, Paul Murray
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
There There, Tommy Orange
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America, Philip Roth
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders
Tenth of December, George Saunders
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
Just Kids, Patti Smith
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk; translated by
Antonia Lloyd- Jones
A Gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
Sing, Unburied Sing, Jesmyn Ward
Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir
Educated, Tara Westover
Caste, Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zeven
The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
Amuse me in my inbox - rachelle.e.swearingen (at) gmail.com
Befriend me on Goodreads -goodreads.com/user/show/139310469-shelly-swearingen
Drop by on Instagram - Shellyish
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