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New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Can you name all of the books included in the New York Times' list of the 100 best books of the century so far?
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Rank
Author
Book
1
Elena Ferrante
My Beautiful Friend
2
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
3
Hilary Mantel
Wolf Hall
4
Edward P. Jones
The Known World
5
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections
6
Roberto Bolaño
2666
7
Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
8
W.G. Sebald
Austerlitz
9
Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go
10
Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
11
Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
12
Joan Didion
The Year of Magical Thinking
13
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
14
Rachel Cusk
Outline
15
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko
16
Michael Chabon
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier Klay
17
Paul Beatty
The Sellout
18
George Saunders
Lincoln in the Bardo
19
Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing
20
Percival Everett
Erasure
21
Matthew Desmond
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
22
Katherine Boo
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
23
Alice Munro
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
24
Richard Powers
The Overstory
25
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Random Family
26
Ian McEwan
Atonement
27
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Americanah
28
David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
29
Helen DeWitt
The Last Samurai
30
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
31
Zadie Smith
White Teeth
32
Alan Hollinghurst
The Line of Beauty
33
Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones
34
Claudia Rankine
Citizen: An American Lyric
35
Alison Bechdel
Fun Home
36
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Between the World and Me
37
Annie Ernaux
The Years
38
Roberto Bolaño
The Savage Detectives
39
Jennifer Egan
A Visit from the Goon Squad
40
Helen McDonald
H is for Hawk
41
Claire Keegan
Small Things Like These
42
Marlon James
A Brief History of Seven Killings
43
Tony Judt
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
44
N.K. Jemisin
The Fifth Season
45
Maggie Nelson
The Argonauts
46
Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
47
Toni Morrison
A Mercy
48
Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis
49
Han Kang
The Vegetarian
50
Hernan Diaz
Trust
Rank
Author
Book
51
Kate Atkinson
Life After Life
52
Denis Johnson
Train Dreams
53
Alice Munro
Runaway
54
George Saunders
Tenth of December: Stories
55
Lawrence Wright
The Looming Tower
56
Rachel Kushner
The Flamethrowers
57
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nickel and Dimed
58
Hua Hsu
Stay True
59
Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
60
Kiese Laymon
Heavy: An American Memoir
61
Barbara Kingsolver
Demon Copperhead
62
Ben Lerner
10:04
63
Mary Gaitskill
Veronica
64
Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers
65
Philip Roth
The Plot Against America
66
Justin Torres
We the Animals
67
Andrew Solomon
Far From the Tree
68
Sigrid Nunez
The Friend
69
Michelle Alexander
The New Jim Crow
70
Edward P. Jones
All Aunt Hagar's Children
71
Tove Ditlevsen
The Copenhagen Trilogy
72
Svetlana Alexievich
Secondhand Time
73
Robert A. Caro
The Passage of Power
74
Elizabeth Strout
Olive Kitteridge
75
Mohsin Hamad
Exit West
76
Tayari Jones
An American Marriage
77
Jon Fosse
Septology
78
Gabrielle Zevin
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
79
Lucia Berlin
A Manual for Cleaning Women
80
Elena Ferrante
The Story of the Lost Child
81
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Pulphead
82
Fernanda Melchor
Hurricane Season
83
Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World
84
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Emperor of all Maladies
85
George Saunders
Pastoralia
86
David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
87
Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby
88
Lydia Davis
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
89
Hisham Matar
The Return
90
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer
91
Philip Roth
The Human Stain
92
Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment
93
Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
94
Zadie Smith
On Beauty
95
Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
96
Saidiya Hartman
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
97
Jesmyn Ward
Men We Reaped
98
Ann Patchett
Bel Canto
99
Ali Smith
How to Be Both
100
Denis Johnson
Tree Of Smoke
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