What’s the Best Book of the Past 125 Years? We Asked Readers to Decide.
This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
New York Times, 11 Books
A list from the New York Times. Here's the description from the website:
In October, as we marked the Book Review’s 125th anniversary, we invited readers to nominate the best book published during that time. This was a nod to our history: In its first few decades, the Book Review often asked readers to anoint the best books, the best short stories, the best poems. We wanted this project, like those early ones, to reflect readers’ tastes and preferences.
Responses began pouring in from all 50 states and 67 countries. In November, we presented a list of the 25 most-nominated books (one per author) for a vote. There were more than 200,000 ballots.
This list was originally published in 2021 and was added to this site about 2 years ago.
