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Best 100 Books of the Century

Based on the New York Times’ complication of Reader’s Choices
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Author
Title
Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead
Anthony Doerr
All the Light We Cannot See
Amor Towles
A Gentleman in Moscow
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko
Tara Westover
Educated
Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Elena Ferrante (trans. Ann Goldstein)
My Brilliant Friend
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
Richard Powers
The Overstory
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo
Ian McEwan
Atonement
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing
Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
Ann Patchett
Bel Canto
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
Sally Rooney
Normal People
Abraham Verghese
Cutting for Stone
Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing
Jennifer Egan
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Madeline Miller
Circe
Anthony Doerr
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Abraham Verghese
The Covenant of Water
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys
Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
Khaled Hosseini
The Kite Runner
Kate Atkinson
Life After Life
Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
James McBride
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
Tommy Orange
There There
Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Bonnie Garmus
Lessons in Chemistry
Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Percival Everett
James
Author
Title
Isabel Wilkerson
Caste
Kristin Hannah
The Nightingale
Hernan Diaz
Trust
Stephen King
11/22/63
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing
Ann Patchett
The Dutch House
Daniel Mason
North Woods
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer
N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
Roberto Bolaño (trans. Natasha Wimmer)
2666
Matthew Desmond
Evicted
Patti Smith
Just Kids
Susanna Clarke
Piranesi
Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City
David Grann
Killers of the Flower Moon
Chanel Miller
Know My Name
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Michelle Zauner
Crying in H Mart
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara and the Sun
Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway
Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy
Yuval Noah Harari
Sapiens
Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel)
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami (trans. Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel)
1Q84
James McBride
Deacon King Kong
Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Ann Patchett
Tom Lake
Colum McCann
Let the Great World Spin
George Saunders
Tenth of December
Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other
Philip Roth
The Plot Against America
Jeannette Walls
The Glass Castle
Carmen Mario Machado
In The Dream House
Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary
Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Driver Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Shelby Van Pelt
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Paul Murray
The Bee Sting
Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Brit Bennett
The Vanishing Half
Ottessa Moshfegh
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Douglas Stuart
Shuggie Bain
Patrick Radden Keefe
Empire of Pain
Fredrik Backman (trans. Henning Koch)
A Man Called Ove
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Level 74
Apr 27, 2026
For the Olga Tokarczuk book, it "drive" not "driver"