A mix of reader favorites and editorial picks from The New York Times—100 books that defined the 21st century.
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last updated December, 2025
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Educated
Tara Westover
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
My Brilliant Friend (The Neapolitan Novels, #1)
Elena Ferrante
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Overstory
Richard Powers
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
Hilary Mantel
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Atonement
Ian McEwan
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
Gilead (Gilead, #1)
Marilynne Robinson
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Normal People
Sally Rooney
Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
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