Grading 35 Titles On the New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

The NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list (paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

100. Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
99. How to Be Both by Ali Smith
98. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
97. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
95. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
94. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
93. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
92. The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein
91. The Human Stain by Philip Roth
90. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
89. The Return by Hisham Matar
88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
87. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
86. Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
85. Pastoralia by George Saunders
84. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
83. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West
82. Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie Hughes
81. Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
80. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein
79. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
78. Septology by Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls
77. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
75. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
74. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
73. The Passage of Power by Robert Caro
72. Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela Shayevich
71. The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen; translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman
70. All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones
69. The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
68. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
67. Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
66. We the Animals by Justin Torres
65. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
64. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
63. Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
62. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
61. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
60. Heavy by Kiese Laymon
59. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
58. Stay True by Hua Hsu
57. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
56. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
55. The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright
54. Tenth of December by George Saunders
53. Runaway by Alice Munro
52. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
51. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
50. Trust by Hernan Diaz
49. The Vegetarian by Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith
48. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
47. A Mercy by Toni Morrison
46. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
45. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
44. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
43. Postwar by Tony Judt
42. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
41. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
40. H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
39. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
38. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer
37. The Years by Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer
36. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
35. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
34. Citizen by Claudia Rankine
33. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
32. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
31. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
30. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
29. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
28. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
27. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26. Atonement by Ian McEwan
25. Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
24. The Overstory by Richard Powers
23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
21. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
20. Erasure by Percival Everett
19. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
18. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
17. The Sellout by Paul Beatty
16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
15. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
14. Outline by Rachel Cusk
13. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
12. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
10. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
9. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell
7. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
6. 2666 by Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer
5. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
4. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
3. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
1. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein

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