Recs if you like The Corrections...
1001 Books to Read Before You Die
Based on the list/book published in 2006, general editor Peter Boxall.
Profit > People
Fictional stories. Real consequences. Profit > People is dedicated to books with capitalist critique, focusing on the lives - and bodies - sacrificed at the altar of industry and interest. Always taking recommendations!
NYT Readers' Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
lit fic featuring dysfunctional families
NYT Reader's Choice Top 100 21st Century
NYT Top 100 of the 21st Century: Reader's Choice. In order as published in 2024
NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century
In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)
Christmas with the Cranks
Alternative Xmas reading — think downbeat stories, family dysfunction, holiday loneliness, seasonal depression, black comedy. There's a gift from me to you under the tree in the comments.
Other winter-holiday books welcome as long as they're cranky!
Is your cynicism chronic? Check out my list Bleakness Is My Weakness...
NYT’s The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s All-Time Best 100 English Language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as published in 2005.
100 Best of the 21st Century
according to the New York Times
NYT Readers' Choice Best Books of the 21st Century
How many have you read?
New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century
The list of the 100 best books of the 21st century from the New York Times
R/Truelit's 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
Reddit's R/Truelit user voted best books of 2000-2026. They included a full series as one pick, like the Neopolitan novels. I only include the first to keep it at 100.
Guardian 100
Top 100 books of the 21st century
Time Magazine All Time 100 Novels
Time Magazine’s compilation of the 100 best novels published since 1923.
(101 because “The Berlin Stories” is an omnibus of “Mr Norris Changes Trains” and “Goodbye To Berlin.”)
Readers Choice Top 100 21st Century
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.
100 Best Books of the 21st Century - Readers Pick
That New York Times list. Starting with place 100 going up.
Readers choice: Best books of the 21st century
The Great American Novel
This is the list from The Atlantic. "In 1868, a little-known writer by the name of John William DeForest proposed a new type of literature, a collective artistic project for a nation just emerging from an existential conflict: a work of fiction that accomplished “the task of painting the American soul.” It would be called the Great American Novel, and no one had written it yet, DeForest admitted. Maybe soon."
100 Best Books of All Time (Reader's Digest)
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