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Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.

#1

2666

#1 in 2666

2004 • 441 Readers • 898 pages 3.9

#2

The Neapolitan Novels

#1-4 of 4 in L'amica geniale

2015 • 13 Readers • 1,705 pages 4

#3

My Struggle: Book One

#1 of 6 in Min kamp

2009 • 101 Readers • 430 pages 4

#4

Solenoid

2015 • 110 Readers • 840 pages 4

#5

Septology

#1 of 6 in Septologien

2022 • 37 Readers • 825 pages 4.9

#6

Lincoln in the Bardo

2017 • 592 Readers • 343 pages 3.9

#7

Austerlitz

2001 • 136 Readers • 265 pages 4.3

#8

The Sellout

2015 • 303 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

#9

The Road

1974 • 2,320 Readers • 287 pages 4

#10

Against the Day

2006 • 115 Readers • 1,085 pages 4.1

#11

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 2,103 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#12

Hurricane Season

2017 • 247 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

#13

Cloud Atlas

2003 • 1,224 Readers • 509 pages 3.9

#14

The Books of Jacob

2014 • 138 Readers • 35h 37m 3.9

#15

Gilead

#1 of 4 in Gilead

2004 • 341 Readers • 289 pages 3.9

#16

White Teeth

2001 • 419 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

#17

The Last Samurai

2000 • 153 Readers • 484 pages 4.4

#18

The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

2022 • 2 Readers • 608 pages 5

#19

The Goldfinch

2013 • 1,447 Readers • 1,006 pages 3.9

#20

The Corrections

2001 • 386 Readers • 676 pages 3.8

#21

The Pale King

2011 • 141 Readers • 550 pages 3.8

#22

Flights

2007 • 153 Readers • 416 pages 3.6

#23

Piranesi

2019 • 2,860 Readers • 246 pages 4.2

#24

The Years

2008 • 96 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

#25

Kafka on the Shore

2001 • 1,586 Readers • 468 pages 4

#27

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,706 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

#28

Seiobo There Below

2008 • 17 Readers • 464 pages 4

#29

#30

Inherent Vice

2009 • 201 Readers • 369 pages 3.9

#31

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2014 • 252 Readers • 688 pages 4

#32

Ducks, Newburyport

2019 • 123 Readers • 1,020 pages 4

#33

No Country for Old Men

2005 • 706 Readers • 309 pages 4.2

#34

Freedom

216 Readers • 24h 3.8

#35

Outline

#1 of 4 in Outline

2014 • 291 Readers • 249 pages 3.7

#36

Trieste

2007 • 17 Readers • 432 pages 4.7

#37

Small Things Like These

2021 • 754 Readers • 70 pages 4.1

#38

The Maniac

2023 • 139 Readers • 298 pages 4.5

#40

Leaving the Atocha Station

2011 • 75 Readers • 154 pages 3.7

#41

Milkman

12 • 229 Readers • 352 pages 3.7

#42

Atonement

2001 • 738 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

#43

The Netanyahus

2021 • 70 Readers • 248 pages 4.1

#44

Wizard of the Crow

2004 • 63 Readers • 786 pages 4.5

#45

Pachinko

2017 • 1,457 Readers • 496 pages 4.2

#46

Station Eleven

2014 • 2,168 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

#47

Tyll

2017 • 78 Readers • 364 pages 3.9

#48

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

#5 of 5 in Voices of Utopia

2013 • 120 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

#49

Train Dreams

2002 • 145 Readers • 116 pages 4

#50

The Vegetarian

2007 • 878 Readers • 188 pages 3.5

#51

Nox

2010 • 33 Readers • 1 page 3.7

#52

Oblivion: Stories

2004 • 86 Readers • 329 pages 4

#53

Erasure

2001 • 163 Readers • 320 pages 4.4

#54

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

#1 in Strange & Norrell

2004 • 1,475 Readers • 865 pages 4

#55

Tenth of December

2012 • 303 Readers • 272 pages 4

#57

A Naked Singularity

2008 • 36 Readers • 925 pages 4.8

#58

The Nickel Boys

2019 • 616 Readers • 224 pages 4.3

#59

Foster

2010 • 337 Readers • 96 pages 4.4

#60

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,870 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

#61

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 1,017 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

#62

The Idiot

2017 • 442 Readers • 434 pages 3.7

#63

Belladonna

2012 • 12 Readers • 398 pages 5

#64

Convenience Store Woman

2016 • 1,125 Readers • 163 pages 3.7

#65

The Underground Railroad

2016 • 911 Readers • 306 pages 4

#66

Brothers

2005 • 21 Readers • 641 pages 4.8

#67

Her Body and Other Parties

2017 • 656 Readers • 245 pages 3.8

#68

The Prague Cemetery

2010 • 77 Readers • 576 pages 3.6

#69

Animal Money

2015 • 16 Readers • 780 pages 4

#70

Detransition, Baby

2021 • 416 Readers • 320 pages 4

#71

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2019 • 1,186 Readers • 256 pages 4

#72

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

#1 of 2 in Persepolis

2000 • 625 Readers • 165 pages 4.4

#73

By Night in Chile

2000 • 53 Readers • 129 pages 3.7

#75

Happening

2000 • 60 Readers • 66 pages 4.3

#76

Border Districts

2017 • 6 Readers • 145 pages

#77

Demon Copperhead

2022 • 1,106 Readers • 560 pages 4.4

#78

The Sympathizer

#1 of 2 in The Sympathizer

2015 • 529 Readers • 384 pages 4.1

#79

Bleeding Edge

2013 • 127 Readers • 477 pages 3.7

#80

The Human Stain

2001 • 13 Readers • 386 pages

#81

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 • 571 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

#82

Americanah

2013 • 767 Readers • 608 pages 4.2

#83

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

2018 • 1,133 Readers • 306 pages 3.7

#84

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 455 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

#85

Seeing

#2 of 2 in Blindness

2004 • 42 Readers • 322 pages 3.9

#86

Zone

2008 • 12 Readers • 528 pages

#87

Submission

2015 • 28 Readers • 256 pages 3.9

#88

HHhH

2010 • 47 Readers • 327 pages 4.3

#89

Minor Detail

2017 • 127 Readers • 97 pages 4.3

#90

The Instructions

2010 • 59 Readers • 1,057 pages 4.4

#91

The Adversary

2000 • 30 Readers • 191 pages 4.2

#92

Tomb of Sand

2018 • 72 Readers • 18h 21m 2.9

#93

Cannonball

2013 • 6 Readers • 312 pages

#94

#95

My Work

2023 • 16 Readers • 390 pages 4

#96

Tram 83

2014 • 16 Readers • 224 pages 4

#97

The Flamethrowers

2013 • 96 Readers • 432 pages 3.5

#98

Heaven

2009 • 362 Readers • 167 pages 3.6

#99

Trilogy

2022 • 13 Readers • 153 pages 4.5

#100

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

2009 • 288 Readers • 81 pages 4.1