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
6565 Candy Mian Mian 2000 Chinese Chinese
6567 Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming László Krasznahorkai 2016 Hungarian Hungarian
6568 The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants Ann Brashares 2001 American English
6576 Ingrid Caven Jean-Jacques Schuhl 2000 French French
6577 Crashed Adam Tooze 2018 British English
6578 Indian Horse Richard Wagamese 2012 Canadian English
6582 Freshwater Akwaeke Emezi 2018 Nigerian English
6583 Hardball Sara Paretsky 2009 American English
6590 American Shaolin Matthew Polly 2007 American English
6596 The Invention Of Nature Andrea Wulf 2015 German English
6598 Long Island Colm Toibin 2024 Irish Unknown
6605 Hillbilly Elegy J. D. Vance 2016 American English
6607 Still Life Louise Penny 2005 Canadian English
6608 The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier 2020 French French
6609 Nos4 A2 Joe Hill 2013 American English
6612 Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker 2020 American English
6617 Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds 2000 British English
6621 Zone Mathias Enard 2008 French French
6622 Purple Hibiscus Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2003 Nigerian English
6623 A General Theory Of Love Thomas Lewis 2000 American English
6633 Reveries Of The Wild Woman Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
6632 Confessions Jaume Cabré 2011 Spanish Catalan
6645 It's Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be Paul Arden 2003 British English
6647 Tortura Pe înțelesul Tuturor Florin Constantin Pavlovici 2001 Romanian Romanian
6647 Simion Liftnicul Petru Cimpoeșu 2001 Romanian Romanian
6650 Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake Sarah MacLean 2010 American English
6653 The Beast Óscar Martínez 2013 Salvadoran Spanish
6655 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6657 A Dream In Polar Fog Yuri Rytkheu 2005 Russian Russian
6661 Mendeleyev's Dream Paul Strathern 2000 British English
6662 You Caroline Kepnes 2014 American English
6663 Preparation for the Next Life Atticus Lish 2014 American English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
6665 Crying In H Mart Michelle Zauner 2021 American English
6672 What The Dog Saw And Other Adventures Malcolm Gladwell 2009 Canadian English
6673 India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha 2007 Indian English
6676 Three Apples Fell From The Sky Narine Abgaryan 2015 Armenian Russian
6676 The Mountain And The Wall Alisa Ganieva 2015 Russian Russian
6679 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6680 A Fraction Of The Whole Steve Toltz 2008 Australian English
6681 Blacktop Wasteland S. A. Cosby 2020 American English
6684 Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda Becky Albertalli 2015 American English
6686 Pain Zeruya Shalev 2015 Israeli Hebrew
6687 Ravelstein Saul Bellow 2000 American English
6697 The Tattooist Of Auschwitz Heather Morris 2018 Australian English
6699 The Little Stranger Sarah Waters 2009 British English
6706 Maggie The Mechanic Jaime Hernandez 2003 American English
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6711 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel 2006 American English
6714 Diccionario De Autores Latinoamericanos César Aira 2001 Argentinian Spanish
6716 How To Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 2018 American English
6730 Saturday Ian McEwan 2005 British English
6731 The Afterlife Donald Antrim 2006 American English
6731 Eat the Document Dana Spiotta 2006 American English
6737 Political Fictions Joan Didion 2001 American English
6737 Emergence Steven Johnson 2001 American English
6737 My Misspent Youth Meghan Daum 2001 American English
6737 The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup Susan Orlean 2001 American English
6748 The Silent Steppe Mukhamet Shayakhmetov 2006 Kazakh English
6755 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6756 The Corpse Walker Liao Yiwu 2008 Chinese Chinese
6757 Breasts And Eggs Mieko Kawakami 2008 Japanese Japanese
6760 Bold As Love Gwyneth Jones 2001 British English
6787 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman 2019 American English
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
6790 The Eleven Pierre Michon 2009 French French
6793 Men Explain Things To Me Rebecca Solnit 2014 American English
6799 We Others Steven Millhauser 2011 American English
6801 Bird Box Josh Malerman 2014 American English
6804 The Art Of Grahame Sydney Grahame Sydney 2000 New Zealand English
6809 Eastbound Maylis de Kerangal 2012 French French
6812 Scorched Wajdi Mouawad 2003 French French
6814 The Owl's Absence Bae Suah 2010 Korean Korean
6816 Open Andre Agassi 2009 American English
6817 Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Taylor Jenkins Reid 2017 American English
6820 The Calculating Stars Mary Robinette Kowal 2018 American English
6830 Genius Harold Bloom 2002 American English
6831 The Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett 2007 British English
6836 We are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler 2013 American English
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
6838 Frontier Can Xue 2008 Chinese Chinese
6841 Rapture Carol Ann Duffy 2005 British English
6842 Timpul Trăirii, Timpul Mărturisirii. Jurnal Parizian Eugen Simion 2003 Romanian Romanian
6843 A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor 2010 British English
6843 The Big Short Michael M. Lewis 2010 American English
6851 Apeirogon Colum McCann 2020 Irish English
6853 Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck 2023 German German
6859 A Head Full Of Ghosts Paul Tremblay 2015 American English
6868 The Cruel Prince Holly Black 2018 American English
6873 Povedal Mi Veštec Tiziano Terzani 2002 Italian Italian
6890 Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer 2001 Irish English
6891 Bared To You Sylvia Day 2012 American English
6892 The Company Robert Littell 2002 American English
6897 The Winter Sea Susanna Kearsley 2008 Canadian English
6898 A City Possessed Lynley Hood 2001 New Zealand English
6899 Exhalation Ted Chiang 2019 American English
6901 Raymond And Hannah Stephen Marche 2005 Canadian English
6906 Washington Black Esi Edugyan 2018 Canadian English
6907 Spies Michael Frayn 2002 British English
6907 The Years of Rice and Salt Kim Stanley Robinson 2002 American English
6913 With The Animals Noëlle Revaz 2002 Swiss French
6917 Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Grace Lin, Janet Song 2009 Chinese English
6916 The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories Ken Liu 2016 American English
6920 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid 2007 Pakistani English
6922 Necropolitics Achille Mbembe 2003 French French
6926 The Hundred Years’ War On Palestine Rashid Khalidi 2020 American English
6929 Jayber Crow Wendell Berry 2000 American English
6930 Academy Street Mary Costello 2014 Irish English
6931 Duck, Death And The Tulip Wolf Erlbruch 2007 German German
6943 La Poupée Russe Gheorghe Crăciun 2004 Romanian Unknown
6947 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 2019 British English
6957 There Will Be No Miracles Here Casey Gerald 2018 American English
6957 The Fifth Risk Michael M. Lewis 2018 American English
6957 The Field Of Blood Joanne B. Freeman 2018 American English
6965 Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam 2000 American English
6967 The Boat Nam Le 2008 Australian English
6968 The Duchess Bertrice Small 2001 American English
6974 The Good Life Elsewhere Vladimir Lorchenkov 2008 Russian Russian
6980 We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live Joan Didion 2006 American English
6981 Hawthorn & Child Keith Ridgway 2012 Irish English