Not the NYT List
100 fine books from around the world (and not just the USA) of the 21st century. A list curated by the Delhi-based bookseller The Bookshop Inc, with contributions from readers, writers, literary critics, and publishing professionals.
 A case of exploding mangoes
| 3.93 | 17 reads | |
 A Dictator Calls
| 4 | 1 read | |
 A General Theory of Oblivion
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 A Gentleman in Moscow
| 4.22 | 502 reads | |
 Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
| 4.33 | 4 reads | |
 An Unnecessary Woman
| 3.78 | 12 reads | |
 Are Prisons Obsolete?
| 4.34 | 77 reads | |
 At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
| 4.22 | 43 reads | |
 Barracoon
| 4.07 | 38 reads | |
 Beauty Is a Wound
| 4.33 | 10 reads | |
 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
| 3.94 | 98 reads | |
 Bhimayana
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Blankets
| 4.07 | 256 reads | |
 Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
| 3.5 | 6 reads | |
 Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.53 | 240 reads | |
 Breasts and Eggs
| 3.88 | 129 reads | |
 Carpentaria
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Circe
| 4.24 | 1,647 reads | |
 Cockroaches
| 4.17 | 3 reads | |
 Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation | 2 | 2 reads | |
 Cry, Heart, But Never Break
| 4.08 | 6 reads | |
 Cursed Bunny
| 3.66 | 108 reads | |
 Doppelganger
| 4.21 | 93 reads | |
 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| 3.78 | 201 reads | |
 Educated: A Memoir
| 4.43 | 1,054 reads | |
 Em and The Big Hoom
| 4 | 19 reads | |
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.31 | 123 reads | |
 Enter Ghost
| 4.15 | 11 reads | |
 Family Lexicon
| 4.33 | 5 reads | |
 Family Matters
| 3.5 | 16 reads | |
 Farthest field
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Ghachar Ghochar
| 3.85 | 32 reads | |
 Go, Went, Gone
| 4 | 15 reads | |
 Hellfire
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Home Fire
| 3.99 | 75 reads | |
 How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| 3.62 | 184 reads | |
 How to Write About Africa
| 4 | 1 read | |
 I Have Not Seen Mandu I Have Not Seen Mandu
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 In a Strange Room
| 3.5 | 8 reads | |
 India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| 4.61 | 21 reads | |
 Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 In Memory of Memory
| 3.9 | 6 reads | |
 In the Dream House | 4.47 | 300 reads | |
 Khwabnama
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
| 4.14 | 393 reads | |
 Latitudes of Longing
| 4.4 | 7 reads | |
 Minor Detail
| 4.35 | 57 reads | |
 Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-fiction
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Narcopolis
| 3.45 | 14 reads | |
 Natasha's Dance
| 4.4 | 6 reads | |
 No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
| 4.6 | 6 reads | |
 Norwegian Wood
| 3.91 | 931 reads | |
 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| 3.98 | 476 reads | |
 On the Move: A Life
| 3.96 | 39 reads | |
 Open City
| 3.74 | 24 reads | |
 Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
| 4.37 | 403 reads | |
 Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
| 4.38 | 9 reads | |
 Reading "Lolita" In Tehran
| 3.53 | 84 reads | |
 Seeing Like A Feminist
| 4.8 | 5 reads | |
 Sidewalks Sidewalks
| 4 | 4 reads | |
 Songs of Kabir Songs of Kabir
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
| 3.95 | 30 reads | |
 Sudden Death
| 3.35 | 15 reads | |
 Terra Nullius
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Butterfly's Burden
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
| 4.17 | 96 reads | |
 The Devotion of Suspect X
| 4.19 | 125 reads | |
 The Dinner
| 3.24 | 155 reads | |
 The Dream Life of Sukhanov
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 The Emperor's Children
| 3.18 | 13 reads | |
 The End of Eddy
| 4.2 | 12 reads | |
 The Faraway Nearby
| 4.38 | 11 reads | |
 The great fire
| 3.4 | 8 reads | |
 The Housekeeper and the Professor
| 3.95 | 134 reads | |
 The House of Doors
| 3.74 | 22 reads | |
 The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
| 4.43 | 53 reads | |
 The Hungry Tide
| 4.09 | 20 reads | |
 The Inheritance of Loss
| 3.36 | 29 reads | |
 The Last Lover
| 0 | 1 read | |
 The Literary Conference
| 0 | 2 reads | |
 The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
| 3.68 | 54 reads | |
 The Lost Pianos of Siberia
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
 The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
| 4 | 22 reads | |
 The Namesake
| 4.01 | 160 reads | |
 The Night Bookmobile
| 3.67 | 23 reads | |
 The Order of Time
| 3.87 | 114 reads | |
 The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
| 4.37 | 195 reads | |
 The Queue
| 3.75 | 11 reads | |
 The Shadow King
| 3.63 | 12 reads | |
 The Shallows
| 3.8 | 84 reads | |
 The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velazquez
| 0 | 1 read | |
 The Wandering Falcon
| 3.4 | 5 reads | |
Two Cures for Love Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems, 1979-2006
| 3.83 | 3 reads | |
Until the Lions Until the Lions
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
| 3.76 | 125 reads | |
 Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
| 4.32 | 45 reads | |
 Wizard of the Crow
| 4.55 | 13 reads | |
 Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
| 3.43 | 7 reads |