The Millions: The Best Fiction of the Millennium

This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

A poll of The Millions contributors and 48 of their favorite writers, editors, and critics, asking a single question: “What are the best books of fiction of the millennium(2000), so far?” The results were robust, diverse, and surprising.

Who Voted?
They list all 56 voters and their names on the article

This list was originally published in 2009 and was added to this site almost 12 years ago.

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Rank	Book	Authors	Year	Country	Language
237	The Corrections	Jonathan Franzen	2001	American	English
574	The Known World	Edward P. Jones	2003	American	English
427	Cloud Atlas	David Mitchell	2004	British	English
232	2666	Roberto Bolaño	2004	Chilean	Spanish
2505	Pastoralia	George Saunders	2000	American	English
290	The Road	Cormac McCarthy	2006	American	English
262	Austerlitz	W. G. Sebald	2001	German	German
3906	Out Stealing Horses	Per Petterson	2003	Norwegian	Norwegian
2467	Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage	Alice Munro	2001	Canadian	English
266	Never Let Me Go	Kazuo Ishiguro	2005	British	English
396	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Diaz	2007	Dominican	English
7809	Twilight of the Superheroes	Deborah Eisenberg	2006	American	English
2497	Mortals	Norman Rush	2003	American	English
248	Atonement	Ian McEwan	2001	British	English
10592	Varieties of Disturbance	Lydia Davis	2007	American	English
418	Middlesex	Jeffrey Eugenides	2002	American	English
3062	The Fortress of Solitude	Jonathan Lethem	2003	American	English
5572	Stranger Things Happen	Kelly Link	2001	American	English
4152	American Genius	Lynne Tillman	2006	American	English
475	Gilead	Marilynne Robinson	2004	American	English