The Greatest Books Since 2000

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11511 Race Experts Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn 2001 American English
11512 On The Line Joseph Ponthus 2019 French French
11513 Le Recensement Des Intellos De Gauche Giacomo Papi 2019 Unknown French
11515 If You Could Be Mine Sara Farizan 2013 Iranian English
11514 The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez 2016 American English
11517 The Dare Game Jacqueline Wilson 2000 British English
11520 All The Single Ladies Rebecca Traister 2016 American English
11519 Spelunky Derek Yu 2015 American English
11523 206 Bones Kathy Reichs 2009 American English
11522 Dial A For Aunties Jesse Q. Sutanto 2021 Indonesian English
11533 Countdown To Zero Day Kim Zetter 2014 American English
11538 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11541 How to Be a Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson 2000 British English
11543 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11565 Trick Mirror Jia Tolentino 2019 American English
11564 Nox Anne Carson 2010 Canadian English
11597 Gone Tomorrow Lee Child 2009 British English
11598 Stella Maris Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
11605 The Wisdom Of Crowds James Surowiecki 2004 American English
11604 Deltora Quest Series Emily Rodda 2000 Australian English
11606 Forget The Sleepless Shores Sonya Taaffe 2018 American English
11607 Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger 2020 American English
11607 Woven In Moonlight Isabel Ibañez 2020 American English
11609 The Complete Calvin And Hobbes Bill Watterson 2005 American English
11609 A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews 2005 Canadian English
11611 The Next Christendom Philip Jenkins 2002 American English
11613 Homesick for Another World Ottessa Moshfegh 2017 American English
11614 The Prague Cemetery Umberto Eco 2010 Italian Italian
11612 The Cross Cultural Process In Christian History Andrew Walls 2002 Unknown English
11621 Finding Beauty In A Broken World Terry Tempest Williams 2008 American English
11621 Where The Wild Things Were William Stolzenburg 2008 Unknown English
11627 May We Be Forgiven A. M. Homes 2012 American English
11628 Everyman Philip Roth 2006 American English
11630 Death By Video Game Simon Parkin 2015 British English
11631 The Instructions Adam Levin 2010 American English
11636 Little Star John Ajvide Lindqvist 2010 Swedish Swedish
11635 The Means Of Reproduction Michelle Goldberg 2009 American English
11638 On The Calculation Of Volume Ii Solvej Balle 2020 Unknown Danish
11639 Damned If I Do Percival Everett 2013 American English
11640 The Colony Annika Norlin, Alice E. Olsson 2023 Swedish English
11641 Noggin John Corey Whaley 2014 American English
11642 Arsonists City Hala Alyan 2021 American English
11642 Gentle And Fierce Vanessa Berry 2021 Australian English
11642 On Animals Susan Orlean 2021 American English
11642 Paradise Estate Max Easton 2021 Unknown English
11642 Silence Is A Sense Layla AlAmmar 2021 Unknown English
11647 A Secular Age Charles Taylor 2007 Canadian English
11649 Money To Burn Asta Olivia Nordenhof 2020 Danish Danish
11651 Mammoth Eva Baltasar 2022 Catalan Catalan
11660 Videogames For Humans Merritt Kopas 2015 Unknown English
11661 Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett 2021 Irish English
11661 The Furrows Namwali Serpell 2022 Unknown English
11661 Under The Skin Linda Villarosa 2023 American English
11661 On Juneteenth Annette Gordon-Reed 2021 American English
11661 Red Comet Heather L. Clark 2020 American English
11661 Shakespeare In A Divided America James Shapiro 2020 American English
11661 War Margaret MacMillan 2020 Canadian English
11661 Disappearing Earth Julia Phillips 2019 American English
11661 The Club Leo Damrosch 2019 American English
11661 No Visible Bruises Rachel Louise Snyder 2019 American English
11661 The Evolution Of Beauty Richard O. Prum 2017 American English
11661 The Association Of Small Bombs Karan Mahajan 2016 Indian English
11661 War And Turpentine Stefan Hertmans 2013 Belgian Dutch
11661 Penelope Fitzgerald Hermione Lee 2013 British English
11661 Thirteen Days In September Lawrence Wright 2014 American English
11661 After The Music Stopped Alan S. Blinder 2013 American English
11661 Days Of Fire Peter Baker 2013 American English
11661 The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark 2012 British English
11661 The Patriarch David Nasaw 2012 American English
11661 The Boy In The Moon Ian Brown 2009 Canadian English
11661 A World On Fire Amanda Foreman 2011 British English
11661 The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010 American English
11661 Apollo’s Angels Jennifer Homans 2010 American English
11661 Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It Maile Meloy 2009 American English
11661 A Short History Of Women Kate Walbert 2009 American English
11661 The Good Soldiers David Finkel 2009 American English
11661 Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009 American English
11661 The Dark Side Jane Mayer 2008 American English
11661 Little Heathens Mildred Armstrong Kalish 2007 American English
11661 The Nine Jeffrey Toobin 2007 American English
11661 The Ordeal Of Elizabeth Marsh Linda Colley 2007 British English
11661 The Lay Of The Land Richard Ford 2006 American English
11661 Falling Through The Earth Danielle Trussoni 2006 American English
11661 Mayflower Nathaniel Philbrick 2006 American English
11661 The Assassins’ Gate George Packer 2005 American English
11661 The Lost Painting Jonathan Harr 2005 American English
11794 The Bride Collector Ted Dekker 2010 American English
11661 Lives Of The Poets E. L. Doctorow 2001 American English
11661 Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas 2018 American English
11661 Into The Raging Sea Rachel Slade 2018 American English
11661 Macbeth Jo Nesbø 2018 Norwegian English
11661 Wade In The Water Tracy K. Smith 2018 American English
11661 American Dialogue Joseph Ellis 2018 American English
11661 Brown Kevin Young 2018 American English
11661 Cherry Nico Walker 2018 American English
11661 Eternal Life Dara Horn 2018 American English
11661 Everything Under Daisy Johnson 2018 British English
11661 The Female Persuasion Meg Wolitzer 2018 American English
11661 Friday Black Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2018 American English
11661 The House Of Broken Angels Luis Alberto Urrea 2018 American English
11661 Lake Success Gary Shteyngart 2018 American English
11661 Last Stories William Trevor 2018 Irish English
11661 Only To Sleep Lawrence Osborne 2018 British English
11661 The Parking Lot Attendant Nafkote Tamirat 2018 American English
11661 Property Lionel Shriver 2018 American English
11661 Pure Hollywood Christine Schutt 2018 American English
11661 A State Of Freedom Neel Mukherjee 2018 British English
11661 A View Of The Empire At Sunset Caryl Phillips 2018 British English
11661 The Witch Elm Tana French 2018 Irish English
11661 Your Duck Is My Duck Deborah Eisenberg 2018 American English
11661 American Eden Victoria Johnson 2018 Unknown English
11661 Brothers Of The Gun Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple 2018 Unknown English
11661 Dead Girls Alice Bolin 2018 American English
11661 The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams 2018 American English
11661 Fatal Discord Michael Massing 2018 Unknown English
11661 Fly Girls Keith O'Brien 2018 American English
11661 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
11661 God Save Texas Lawrence Wright 2018 American English
11661 In Pieces Sally Field 2018 American English
11661 Looking For Lorraine Imani Perry 2018 Unknown English