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.
created by GeraldPBear
last updated June, 2026
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
Trilogy
Jon Fosse
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner
My Work
Olga Ravn
A General Theory of Oblivion
José Eduardo Agualusa
Cannonball
Joseph McElroy
Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
Emmanuel CarrĂšre
The Instructions
Adam Levin
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
HHhH
Laurent Binet
Submission
Michel Houellebecq
Zone
Mathias Ănard
Seeing
José Saramago
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot DĂaz
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
Philip Roth
Bleeding Edge
Thomas Pynchon
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Border Districts
Gerald Murnane
Happening
Annie Ernaux
When We Cease to Understand the World
BenjamĂn Labatut
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bolaño
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Marjane Satrapi
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
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