NYT Best Books of the 21st Century: Reader’s Choice
- Updated 3 months ago
- 100 Books
“When the Book Review published a list of the 100 best books of the century, we knew we'd hear from readers who were incensed or gutted or driven wild by grief. How could So-and-So's book not make the cut?
One of the best things about working in books is just this: the passion of our constituency. No way would we deprive readers of the chance to vote for their own list and make their voices heard.
And so you have. Here's the Readers' Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century. There's some overlap between your list and ours - we agreed on 39 books.” - NYT
| #1 |  Demon Copperhead
| 4.4 | 429 reads | |
| #2 |  All the Light We Cannot See
| 4.2 | 927 reads | |
| #3 |  A Gentleman in Moscow
| 4.23 | 544 reads | |
| #4 |  The Goldfinch
| 3.94 | 718 reads | |
| #5 |  Pachinko
| 4.24 | 599 reads | |
| #6 |  Educated: A Memoir
| 4.43 | 1,110 reads | |
| #7 |  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
| 4.1 | 1,663 reads | |
| #8 |  My Brilliant Friend
| 4.06 | 367 reads | |
| #9 |  Never Let Me Go
| 3.82 | 1,137 reads | |
| #10 |  Station Eleven
| 4.08 | 1,290 reads | |
| #11 |  A Little Life
| 4.11 | 737 reads | |
| #12 |  The Overstory
| 4.07 | 313 reads | |
| #13 |  The Underground Railroad
| 4.04 | 450 reads | |
| #14 |  Wolf Hall
| 3.92 | 268 reads | |
| #15 |  The Road
| 4.03 | 1,497 reads | |
| #16 |  Lincoln in the Bardo
| 3.89 | 307 reads | |
| #17 |  Atonement
| 3.89 | 377 reads | |
| #18 |  Middlesex
| 4.15 | 394 reads | |
| #19 |  Americanah
| 4.24 | 340 reads | |
| #20 |  The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
| 4.22 | 328 reads | |
| #21 |  Homegoing
| 4.46 | 359 reads | |
| #22 |  Hamnet
| 4.17 | 268 reads | |
| #23 |  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
| 4.46 | 106 reads | |
| #24 |  Bel Canto
| 3.81 | 169 reads | |
| #25 |  Gilead
| 3.94 | 142 reads | |
| #26 |  The Corrections
| 3.85 | 201 reads | |
| #27 |  Normal People
| 3.63 | 1,255 reads | |
| #28 |  Cutting for Stone
| 4.03 | 102 reads | |
| #29 |  Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
| 4.45 | 230 reads | |
| #30 |  A Visit from the Goon Squad
| 3.82 | 326 reads | |
| #31 |  Circe
| 4.23 | 1,753 reads | |
| #32 |  Cloud Cuckoo Land
| 4.25 | 329 reads | |
| #33 |  The Book Thief
| 4.32 | 1,554 reads | |
| #34 |  Cloud Atlas
| 3.93 | 551 reads | |
| #35 |  The Covenant of Water
| 4.32 | 118 reads | |
| #36 |  The Year of Magical Thinking
| 4.02 | 274 reads | |
| #37 |  The Nickel Boys
| 4.28 | 318 reads | |
| #38 |  The Great Believers
| 4.49 | 126 reads | |
| #39 |  Olive Kitteridge
| 4.01 | 165 reads | |
| #40 |  The Kite Runner
| 4.15 | 1,297 reads | |
| #41 |  Life After Life
| 3.67 | 226 reads | |
| #42 |  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
| 3.73 | 332 reads | |
| #43 |  Between the World and Me
| 4.56 | 577 reads | |
| #44 |  The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
| 3.88 | 181 reads | |
| #45 |  There There
| 3.93 | 291 reads | |
| #46 |  The Song of Achilles
| 4.26 | 1,895 reads | |
| #47 |  Lessons in Chemistry
| 4.14 | 768 reads | |
| #48 |  On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
| 3.98 | 526 reads | |
| #49 |  Gone Girl
| 3.95 | 1,553 reads | |
| #50 |  James
| 4.44 | 219 reads | |
| #51 |  Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
| 4.44 | 244 reads | |
| #52 |  The Nightingale
| 4.33 | 528 reads | |
| #53 |  Trust
| 3.8 | 198 reads | |
| #54 |  11/22/63
| 4.32 | 949 reads | |
| #55 |  Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
| 4.53 | 252 reads | |
| #56 |  The Hunger Games
| 4.11 | 4,838 reads | |
| #57 |  Small Things Like These
| 4.13 | 426 reads | |
| #58 |  White Teeth
| 3.83 | 182 reads | |
| #59 |  Where the Crawdads Sing
| 4.07 | 1,164 reads | |
| #60 |  The Dutch House
| 4.01 | 294 reads | |
| #61 |  North Woods
| 4.29 | 100 reads | |
| #62 |  The Sympathizer
| 4.06 | 212 reads | |
| #63 |  The Fifth Season
| 4.34 | 1,293 reads | |
| #64 |  2666
| 3.85 | 110 reads | |
| #65 |  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| 4.59 | 189 reads | |
| #66 |  Just Kids
| 4.2 | 222 reads | |
| #67 |  Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,536 reads | |
| #68 |  The Devil in the White City
| 3.99 | 630 reads | |
| #69 |  Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
| 4.15 | 505 reads | |
| #70 |  Know My Name
| 4.7 | 254 reads | |
| #71 |  Sing, Unburied, Sing
| 4.07 | 180 reads | |
| #72 |  Crying in H Mart
| 4.25 | 656 reads | |
| #73 |  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
| 4.42 | 4,389 reads | |
| #74 |  Klara and the Sun
| 3.81 | 845 reads | |
| #75 |  The Lincoln Highway
| 4.19 | 175 reads | |
| #76 |  Just Mercy
| 4.73 | 195 reads | |
| #77 |  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
| 4.21 | 1,381 reads | |
| #78 |  Kafka on the Shore
| 3.99 | 898 reads | |
| #79 |  1Q84
| 3.68 | 516 reads | |
| #80 |  Deacon King Kong
| 4.15 | 74 reads | |
| #81 |  Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
| 4.18 | 417 reads | |
| #82 |  Tom Lake
| 4.04 | 198 reads | |
| #83 |  Let the Great World Spin
| 4.07 | 90 reads | |
| #84 |  Tenth of December
| 4.05 | 164 reads | |
| #85 |  When Breath Becomes Air
| 4.37 | 554 reads | |
| #86 |  Life of Pi
| 3.83 | 1,041 reads | |
| #87 |  Girl, Woman, Other
| 4.28 | 210 reads | |
| #88 |  The Plot Against America
| 3.63 | 106 reads | |
| #89 |  The Glass Castle
| 4.18 | 447 reads | |
| #90 |  In the Dream House | 4.47 | 320 reads | |
| #91 |  Project Hail Mary
| 4.46 | 2,926 reads | |
| #92 |  Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
| 3.79 | 217 reads | |
| #93 |  Remarkably Bright Creatures
| 4.14 | 553 reads | |
| #94 |  The Bee Sting
| 4.23 | 112 reads | |
| #95 |  A Thousand Splendid Suns
| 4.34 | 661 reads | |
| #96 |  The Vanishing Half
| 4.11 | 541 reads | |
| #97 |  My Year of Rest and Relaxation
| 3.72 | 573 reads | |
| #98 |  Shuggie Bain
| 4.26 | 159 reads | |
| #99 |  Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
| 4.57 | 198 reads | |
| #100 |  A Man Called Ove
| 4.38 | 910 reads |