The Millions: The Best Fiction of the Millennium
This is one of the 743 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
The Millions, 20 Books
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.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 237 | The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | 2001 | American | English | |
| 574 | The Known World | Edward P. Jones | 2003 | American | English | |
| 432 | Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 2004 | British | English | |
| 232 | 2666 | Roberto Bolaño | 2004 | Chilean | Spanish | |
| 2500 | Pastoralia | George Saunders | 2000 | American | English | |
| 291 | The Road | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 | American | English | |
| 261 | Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | 2001 | German | German | |
| 3900 | Out Stealing Horses | Per Petterson | 2003 | Norwegian | Norwegian | |
| 2462 | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage | Alice Munro | 2001 | Canadian | English | |
| 267 | Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | 2005 | British | English | |
| 395 | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz | 2007 | Dominican | English | |
| 7793 | Twilight of the Superheroes | Deborah Eisenberg | 2006 | American | English | |
| 2492 | Mortals | Norman Rush | 2003 | American | English | |
| 248 | Atonement | Ian McEwan | 2001 | British | English | |
| 10565 | Varieties of Disturbance | Lydia Davis | 2007 | American | English | |
| 415 | Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | 2002 | American | English | |
| 3129 | The Fortress of Solitude | Jonathan Lethem | 2003 | American | English | |
| 5564 | Stranger Things Happen | Kelly Link | 2001 | American | English | |
| 4146 | American Genius | Lynne Tillman | 2006 | American | English | |
| 475 | Gilead | Marilynne Robinson | 2004 | American | English |