Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

Updated 7 months ago
100 Books
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A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.

Position	Details	Rating	Readers Count
#1	2666 Roberto Bolaño Natasha Wimmer (Translator)	3.91	103 reads
#2	The Neapolitan Novels Elena Ferrante	4.5	3 reads
#3	My Struggle: Book One Karl Ove Knausgård Don Bartlett (translator)	4.02	58 reads
#4	Solenoid Mircea Cărtărescu	4	16 reads
#5	Septology Jon Fosse	4.9	5 reads
#6	Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders	3.88	292 reads
#7	Austerlitz W.G. Sebald James Wood	4.29	29 reads
#8	The Sellout Paul Beatty	3.8	122 reads
#9	The Road Cormac McCarthy	4.03	1,390 reads
#10	Against the Day Thomas Pynchon	4.1	24 reads
#11	Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro	3.82	1,027 reads
#12	Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor Sophie Hughes (Translator)	4.08	70 reads
#13	Cloud Atlas David Mitchell	3.93	527 reads
#14	The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	3.86	17 reads
#15	Gilead Marilynne Robinson	3.95	132 reads
#16	White Teeth Zadie Smith	3.82	174 reads
#17	The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt	4.35	37 reads
#18	The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy	5	1 read
#19	The Goldfinch Donna Tartt	3.94	674 reads
#20	The Corrections Jonathan Franzen	3.81	189 reads
#21	The Pale King David Foster Wallace	3.79	39 reads
#22	Flights Olga Tokarczuk Jennifer Croft (Translator)	3.62	42 reads
#23	Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,428 reads
#24	The Years Annie Ernaux Alison L. Strayer (Translator)	4.18	24 reads
#25	Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Philip Gabriel (Translator)	3.99	824 reads
#26	Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Olga Tokarczuk Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)	3.79	203 reads
#27	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.11	489 reads
#28	Seiobo There Below László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	4	1 read
#29	Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming László Krasznahorkai Ottilie Mulzet (Translator)	3.33	3 reads
#30	Inherent Vice Thomas Pynchon	3.88	89 reads
#31	A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James	4.04	70 reads
#32	Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann	4	17 reads
#33	No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy	4.15	342 reads
#34	Freedom Jonathan Franzen	3.78	118 reads
#35	Outline Rachel Cusk	3.72	111 reads
#36	Trieste Daša Drndić Ellen Elias-Bursać (Translator)	4.67	4 reads
#37	Small Things Like These Claire Keegan	4.14	402 reads
#38	The Maniac Benjamín Labatut	4.48	53 reads
#39	The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century Olga Ravn Martin Aitken (Translator)	3.6	86 reads
#40	Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner	3.72	37 reads
#41	Milkman Anna Burns	3.67	80 reads
#42	Atonement Ian McEwan	3.89	353 reads
#43	The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen	4.09	27 reads
#44	Wizard of the Crow Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	4.55	13 reads
#45	Pachinko Min Jin Lee	4.24	565 reads
#46	Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel	4.08	1,220 reads
#47	Tyll Daniel Kehlmann Isabel García Adánez (Translator)	3.88	25 reads
#48	Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Svetlana Alexievich Bela Shayevich (Translator)	4.36	26 reads
#49	Train Dreams Denis Johnson	3.97	55 reads
#50	The Vegetarian Han Kang Deborah Smith (Translator)	3.54	445 reads
#51	Nox Anne Carson	3.67	9 reads
#52	Oblivion: Stories David Foster Wallace	3.97	37 reads
#53	Erasure Percival Everett	4.4	53 reads
#54	Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke	3.98	645 reads
#55	Tenth of December George Saunders	4.03	155 reads
#56	Our Lady of the Nile: A Novel Scholastique Mukasonga	0	0 reads
#57	A Naked Singularity Sergio de la Pava	4.6	9 reads
#58	The Nickel Boys Colson Whitehead	4.27	300 reads
#59	Foster Claire Keegan	4.38	185 reads
#60	Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	3.72	1,089 reads
#61	Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang	4.3	515 reads
#62	The Idiot Elif Batuman	3.66	139 reads
#63	Belladonna Daša Drndić	5	1 read
#64	Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.69	682 reads
#65	The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead	4.02	432 reads
#66	Brothers Yu Hua Eileen Chow (Translator) Carlos Rojas (Translator)	4.75	5 reads
#67	Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado	3.77	254 reads
#68	The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco	3.56	39 reads
#69	Animal Money Michael Cisco	4	3 reads
#70	Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters	4	157 reads
#71	On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong	3.98	477 reads
#72	Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	4.37	408 reads
#73	By Night in Chile Roberto Bolaño	3.73	21 reads
#74	When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut Adrian Nathan West (Translator)	4.01	131 reads
#75	Happening Annie Ernaux Tanya Leslie (Translator)	4.3	27 reads
#76	Border Districts Gerald Murnane	0	0 reads
#77	Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver	4.41	404 reads
#78	The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen	4.07	199 reads
#79	Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon	3.67	41 reads
#80	The Human Stain Philip Roth	0	3 reads
#81	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz	3.71	313 reads
#82	Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	4.23	323 reads
#83	My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh	3.72	553 reads
#84	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond	4.59	180 reads
#85	Seeing José Saramago	3.93	19 reads
#86	Zone Mathias Énard Charlotte Mandell (Translator)	0	1 read
#87	Submission Michel Houellebecq	3.94	13 reads
#88	HHhH Laurent Binet Sam Taylor (Translator)	4.25	18 reads
#89	Minor Detail Adania Shibli Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)	4.35	57 reads
#90	The Instructions Adam Levin	4.4	12 reads
#91	The Adversary Emmanuel Carrère Linda Coverdale (Translator)	4.2	8 reads
#92	Tomb of Sand Geetanjali Shree	2.91	13 reads
#93	Cannonball Joseph McElroy	0	0 reads
#94	A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa Daniel Hahn (Translator)	4	4 reads
#95	My Work Olga Ravn Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator) Jennifer Russell (Translator)	4	3 reads
#96	Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila	4	2 reads
#97	The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner	3.46	33 reads
#98	Heaven Mieko Kawakami Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator)	3.63	149 reads
#99	Trilogy Jon Fosse	4.5	3 reads
#100	Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Mark Fisher	4.08	124 reads