Recs if you like The Lincoln Highway...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

sometimes they're running to something, sometimes they're running from something, sometimes they're just running.

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.

NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024

Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025

2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers

How many have you read?

(dys)functional family road trip books full of lots of feelings, chaos, and too many rest stops

A goal to read all the books in the Readers' Choice: best books of the 21st century. Books in order from 100-1. List made in 2024 I think! List is different from the NYT choice list.

That New York Times list. Starting with place 100 going up.

Goodreads Published List of Consistently > 4 ⭐️(by year published)

2000: Plain Truth - House of Leaves ‘01: Other Boleyn Girl - Secret Life of Bees ‘02: Fingersmith - Lamb ‘03: Shutter Island - Time Traveler’s Wife ‘04: Shadow of the Wind - Cloud Atlas ‘05: No Country for Old Men - Book Thief ‘06: Sharp Objects - Road ‘07: Terror - Thousand Splendid Suns ‘08: City of Thieves - Hunger Games ‘09: Maze Runner - Cutting for Stone

Ran out of room.. See Comments for full list!

These books are chosen for “Read with Jenna” by Jenna Bush Hager.

Latest book added: September 2026

by jenna bush hager

Travels of mind and heart