The Greatest Postmodern 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
6680 A Fraction Of The Whole Steve Toltz 2008 Australian English
6710 The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 Zambian English
6711 Ooga-Booga Frederick Seidel 2006 American English
6731 Eat the Document Dana Spiotta 2006 American English
6737 Emergence Steven Johnson 2001 American English
6755 I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 American English
6799 We Others Steven Millhauser 2011 American English
6814 The Owl's Absence Bae Suah 2010 Korean Korean
6837 Yellowface R. F. Kuang 2023 American English
6943 La Poupée Russe Gheorghe Crăciun 2004 Romanian Unknown
6947 Ducks, Newburyport Lucy Ellmann 2019 British English
6981 Hawthorn & Child Keith Ridgway 2012 Irish English
7025 Precarious Life Judith Butler 2004 American English
7046 The Children's Crusade Florina Ilis 2005 Romanian Romanian
7062 Then We Came To The End Joshua Ferris 2007 American English
7081 Hermina Sami Tchak 2003 French French
7086 There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbour’s Baby Ludmila Petrushevskaya 2009 Russian Russian
7108 The Children Of The Dead Elfriede Jelinek 2024 Austrian German
7130 Beauty Is A Wound Eka Kurniawan 2002 Indonesian Indonesian
7129 Knife Salman Rushdie 2024 British English
7176 The Asylum Seeker Arnon Grunberg 2003 Dutch Dutch
7202 Gb84 David Peace 2004 British English
7205 Animalinside László Krasznahorkai, Max Neumann 2010 Hungarian Hungarian
7212 Question 7 Richard Flanagan 2023 Unknown English
7602 The Beginning Of Infinity David Deutsch 2011 British English
7626 Whale Cheon Myeong-kwan 2004 Korean Korean
7631 Telephone Percival Everett 2020 American English
7632 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
7649 Cloud Cuckoo Land Anthony Doerr 2021 American English
7702 Beatlebone Kevin Barry 2015 Irish English
7725 A Worldly Country John Ashbery 2007 American English
7725 Stupidity Rafael Spregelburd 2007 Argentinian Spanish
7753 Mr. Fox Helen Oyeyemi 2011 British English
7808 Twilight of the Superheroes Deborah Eisenberg 2006 American English
7844 The Accidental Ali Smith 2005 British English
7876 Baumgartner Paul Auster 2023 American English
7894 The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 2014 British English
7896 Dangerous Laughter Steven Millhauser 2008 American English
7899 Spreadeagle Kevin Killian 2012 American English
7914 The Braindead Megaphone George Saunders 2007 American English
7976 Trust Exercise Susan Choi 2019 American English
8000 Fragmentos De Un Libro Futuro José Ángel Valente 2000 Spanish Spanish
8029 Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007 American English
8071 Taipei Tao Lin 2013 American English
8073 Chronic City Jonathan Lethem 2009 American English
8105 O Miki Liukkonen 2017 Finnish Finnish
8202 The Day I Wasn't There Hélène Cixous 2000 French French
8218 Rok Perel Zuzana Brabcová 2000 Czech Czech
8260 The Poetry Of Thought George Steiner 2011 British English
8284 Nowhere Man Aleksandar Hemon 2002 Bosnian English
8296 Alec: The Years Have Pants Eddie Campbell 2008 British English
8300 Lizard Tails Juan Marsé 2004 Spanish Spanish
8410 Lost In A Good Book Jasper Fforde 2002 British English
8444 The Natashas Yelena Moskovich 2016 Russian English
8444 The Harvest Of Chronos Mojca Kumerdej 2016 Slovenian Slovenian
8444 The Interim Wolfgang Hilbig 2000 German German
8460 Headshot Rita Bullwinkel 2024 Unknown English
8496 Transcritique Kojin Karatani 2003 Japanese Japanese
8533 L'amour, Roman Camille Laurens 2003 French French
8553 Our Evenings Alan Hollinghurst 2024 Unknown English
8630 Vanishing Point David Markson 2004 American English
8651 Three Days With My Mother François Weyergans 2005 Belgian French
8688 The One Before Juan José Saer 2015 Argentinian Spanish
8700 Millennium People J. G. Ballard 2003 British English
8704 The Last Books of Hector Viel Temperley Hector Viel Temperley
 2011 Argentinian Spanish
8753 Breakfast At Midnight Louis Armand 2012 Unknown English
8787 The Diaries Of Emilio Renzi Ricardo Piglia 2015 Argentinian Spanish
8847 Philosophy of the Tourist Hiroki Azuma 2017 Japanese Unknown
8852 I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Lorrie Moore 2023 American English
8888 Cendrillon Éric Reinhardt 2007 French French
8896 Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It Geoff Dyer 2003 British English
8974 Mantra Rodrigo Fresán 2001 Argentinian Spanish
8994 Delirious Damien Wilkins 2012 New Zealand English
9035 Yama Loka Terminus Léo Henry, Jacques Mucchielli 2008 French French
9039 Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here Jonathan Blitzer 2024 Unknown English
9073 Autumn Ali Smith 2016 British English
9078 Event Factory Renee Gladman 2010 American English
9111 Cosmopolis Don DeLillo 2003 American English
9127 Génie Divin Guillaume Dustan 2001 French French
9138 The Consequences Niña Weijers 2014 Dutch Dutch
9181 Red Clocks Leni Zumas 2018 American English
9223 The Passenger Cormac McCarthy 2022 American English
9225 Han Hinkon Makoto Yuasa 2008 Japanese Unknown
9226 Poems Jorge Luis Borges 2010 Argentinian Spanish
9261 The Candy House Jennifer Egan 2022 American English
9595 The Naked Eye Yoko Tawada 2004 Multiple German
9604 Meteor In The Madhouse Leon Forrest 2001 American English
9640 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila 2014 Congolese French
9713 Eros Is More Juan Antonio González Iglesias 2018 Spanish Spanish
9720 Someone You Can Build A Nest In John Wiswell 2024 Unknown English
9731 Europe Central William T. Vollmann 2005 American English
9761 Show Them A Good Time Nicole Flattery 2019 Irish English
9762 When The Earth Was Flat Raymond Fraser 2007 Canadian English
9769 Animal Money Michael Cisco 2015 American English
9807 The Childhood Of Jesus J. M. Coetzee 2013 South African English
9820 Mean Boy Lynn Coady 2006 Canadian English
9825 The Opposite Of A Person Lieke Marsman 2017 Dutch Dutch
9826 Tristano Dies Antonio Tabucchi 2004 Italian Italian
9945 An Apartment On Uranus Paul B. Preciado 2019 Spanish French
9958 On The Calculation Of Volume Solvej Balle 2025 Danish Danish
10010 Multiple Choice Alejandro Zambra 2014 Chilean Spanish
10019 The End Of The World Is A Cul De Sac Louise Kennedy 2021 Irish English
10060 Campo De Retamas Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio 2013 Spanish Spanish
10096 The People In The Trees Hanya Yanagihara 2013 American English
10098 Colored Television Danzy Senna 2024 Unknown English
10101 My Life As A Russian Novel Emmanuel Carrère 2007 French French
10107 Carte Muette Philippe Vasset 2007 French French
10124 White City Kevin Power 2021 Irish English
10134 Change Machine Jaya Savige 2020 Australian English
10152 You Dreamed Of Empires Alvaro Enrigue 2024 Unknown English
10167 The Pale King David Foster Wallace 2011 American English
10194 Duplex Kathryn Davis 2013 American English
10205 Peripathetic Cher Tan 2020 Unknown English
10206 Neuromaani Jaakko Yli-Juonikas 2012 Finnish Finnish
10221 Doctor Pasavento Enrique Vila-Matas 2005 Spanish Spanish
10231 Que Cavalos São Aqueles Que Fazem Sombra No Mar? António Lobo Antunes 2009 Portuguese Portuguese
10275 This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud 2024 Unknown English
10277 La Burla Del Tiempo Mauricio Electorat 2004 Chilean Spanish
10357 Liars Sarah Manguso 2024 American English
10367 Sweet Land Stories E. L. Doctorow 2004 American English