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
3103 Super Sad True Love Story Gary Shteyngart 2010 American English
3114 Foster Claire Keegan 2010 Irish English
3121 The Possibility Of An Island Michel Houellebecq 2005 French French
3123 Carpentaria Alexis Wright 2006 Australian English
3130 Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood 2003 Canadian English
3132 The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura 2009 Cuban Spanish
3136 Mother's Milk Edward St Aubyn 2005 British English
3139 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk Ben Fountain 2012 American English
3164 Dept. of Speculation Jenny Offill 2014 American English
3171 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
3172 The Bee Sting Paul Murray 2023 Irish English
3174 Oblivion David Foster Wallace 2004 American English
3178 Priestdaddy Patricia Lockwood 2017 American English
3179 The Quick And The Dead Joy Williams 2000 American English
3180 Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver 2012 American English
3183 Minor Detail Adania Shibli 2017 Palestinian Arabic
3190 The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern 2011 American English
3205 When We Cease To Understand The World Adrian Nathan West, Benjamin Labatut 2020 Chilean Spanish
3207 Submission Michel Houellebecq 2015 French French
3211 Homo Deus Yuval Noah Harari 2015 Israeli Hebrew
3214 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See 2005 Chinese English
3217 Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson 2014 American English
3227 Millennium Trilogy Stieg Larsson 2005 Swedish Swedish
3228 Ghachar Ghochar Vivek Shanbhag 2015 Indian Kannada
3234 Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 2005 American English
3233 The Books Of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk 2014 Polish Polish
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
3238 The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 2000 American English
3258 Killers Of The Flower Moon David Grann 2017 American English
3265 The Days Of Abandonment Elena Ferrante 2002 Italian Italian
3272 The Luminaries Eleanor Catton 2013 New Zealand English
3281 The Hate U Give Angie Thomas 2017 American English
3282 Blankets Craig Thompson 2003 American English
3283 The Blank Slate Steven Pinker 2002 American English
3286 Three Strong Women Marie NDiaye 2009 French French
3317 The Kiss Quotient Helen Hoang 2018 Vietnamese English
3318 Shantaram Gregory David Roberts 2003 Australian English
3389 Death Of A Red Heroine Qiu Xiaolong 2000 Chinese English
3398 The Name Of The Wind Patrick Rothfuss 2007 American English
3401 Brothers Yu Hua 2005 Chinese Chinese
3405 Fifty Shades of Grey: E. L. James 2011 British English
3417 The Housekeeper And The Professor Yōko Ogawa 2003 Japanese Japanese
3421 The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein 2007 Canadian English
3430 Get A Life, Chloe Brown Talia Hibbert 2019 British English
3436 The Broken Earth Trilogy N. K. Jemisin 2015 American English
3443 Transit Rachel Cusk 2016 British English
3450 Mistborn Brandon Sanderson 2006 American English
3453 Magic for Beginners Kelly Link 2005 American English
3467 Kudos Rachel Cusk 2018 British English
3469 Solar Bones Mike McCormack 2016 Irish English
3472 We Do Not Part Han Kang 2021 Korean Korean
3477 American Born Chinese Gene Luen Yang 2006 American English
3479 The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 2002 Norwegian Norwegian
3485 The Fault in Our Stars John Green 2012 American English
3488 Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor 2011 American English
3494 Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer 2009 American English
3500 Family Matters Rohinton Mistry 2002 Canadian English
3501 Borges Adolfo Bioy Casares 2006 Argentine Spanish
3506 The Most Secret Memory Of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 2021 Senegalese French
3508 Joe Cinque's Consolation Helen Garner 2004 Australian English
3520 Nothing to Envy Barbara Demick 2009 American English
3522 Bad Blood John Carreyrou 2018 American English
3526 All My Puny Sorrows Miriam Toews 2014 Canadian English
3531 An Unnecessary Woman Rabih Alameddine 2013 Lebanese English
3532 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo 2019 British English
3535 Netherland Joseph O'Neill 2008 Irish English
3539 C Tom McCarthy 2010 British English
3541 Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado 2017 American English
3543 The Good Women Of China Xinran 2002 Chinese Chinese
3564 The Eighth Life Nino Haratishvili 2014 Georgian German
3568 Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 2017 American English
3573 Notes from No Man's Land Eula Biss 2009 American English
3576 The Possessed Elif Batuman 2010 Turkish English
3580 Call Me By Your Name André Aciman 2007 Italian English
3590 Do Everything in the Dark Gary Indiana 2003 American English
3589 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
3594 Thick Tressie McMillan Cottom 2019 American English
3598 The Wedding Date Jasmine Guillory 2018 American English
3599 Daisy Jones & The Six Taylor Jenkins Reid 2019 American English
3600 Debt David Graeber 2011 American English
3601 Human Acts Han Kang 2014 Korean Korean
3603 A Girl Is A Half Formed Thing Eimear McBride 2013 Irish English
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
3607 Virgin River Robyn Carr 2007 American English
3609 Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell 2006 American English
3613 The Vanishing Half Brit Bennett 2020 American English
3615 11 22 63 Stephen King 2011 American English
3623 Sepharad Antonio Muñoz Molina 2001 Spanish Spanish
3627 Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata 2016 Japanese Japanese
3814 Dark Lover J. R. Ward 2005 American English
3816 City of Bohane Kevin Barry 2011 Irish English
3824 Outliers Malcolm Gladwell 2008 Canadian English
3838 De Niro's Game Rawi Hage 2006 Canadian English
3842 An Extraordinary Union Alyssa Cole 2017 American English
3847 Quiet Susan Cain 2012 English
3848 Piranesi Susanna Clarke 2020 British English
3855 Breath Tim Winton 2008 Australian English
3875 We Need To Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver 2003 American English
3886 Lunar Park Bret Easton Ellis 2005 American English
3889 There But For The Ali Smith 2011 British English
3906 Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson 2003 Norwegian Norwegian
3910 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen 2006 American English
3914 Sudden Death Alvaro Enrigue 2013 Mexican Spanish
3922 Wonder R. J. Palacio 2012 American English
3926 In The Woods Tana French 2007 Irish English
3927 The Poppy War R. F. Kuang 2018 Chinese English
3945 The Arrival Shaun Tan 2006 Australian English
3944 In The Dream House Carmen Maria Machado 2019 American English
4054 Leaving the Atocha Station Ben Lerner 2011 American English
4065 The Princess Diaries Meg Cabot 2000 American English
4066 Lives Other Than My Own Emmanuel Carrère 2009 French French
4067 The Story Of Lucy Gault William Trevor 2002 Irish English
4075 Seabiscuit Laura Hillenbrand 2001 American English
4077 Children Of Blood And Bone Tomi Adeyemi 2018 Nigerian English
4096 Boyfriend Material Alexis Hall 2020 British English
4101 Purge Sofi Oksanen 2008 Finnish Finnish
4113 Brick Lane Monica Ali 2003 British English
4115 Why Did I Ever? Mary Robison 2001 American English
4135 The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit 2013 American English
4143 Aristotle And Dante Discover The Secrets Of The Universe Benjamin Alire Sáenz 2012 American English