Loners!
As promised, here are the books I have read from The New York Times' list of the 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, published this month.
My Brilliant Friend ● Wolf Hall ● The Known World ● The Corrections ● The Underground Railroad ● Never Let Me Go ● Gilead ● The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao ● The Year of Magical Thinking ● The Road ● Outline ●Pachinko ● The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay ● The Sellout ● Say Nothing ● Evicted ●Behind the Beautiful Forevers ● The Overstory ●Atonement ● Americanah ● Cloud Atlas ● The Last Samurai ● Sing, Unburied, Sing ● White Teeth ● The Line of Beauty ● Salvage the Bones● Fun Home ● Between the World and Me ● The Years ● The Savage Detectives ● A Visit From the Goon Squad ● H Is for Hawk ● A Brief History of Seven Killings ● The Argonauts ● The Goldfinch ● Persepolis ● The Vegetarian ● Trust● Train Dreams ● Runaway ● Tenth of December● The Flamethrowers ● Stay True ● Middlesex ●Heavy ● Demon Copperhead ● 10:04 ● The Great Believers ● The Plot Against America ● We the Animals ● Far From the Tree ● The Copenhagen Trilogy ● Olive Kitteridge ● Exit West ● Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow● A Manual for Cleaning Women ● The Story of the Lost Child ● Pulphead ● When We Cease to Understand the World ● The Emperor of All Maladies ● Pastoralia ● Detransition, Baby ●The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis ● The Sympathizer ● The Human Stain ● The Days of Abandonment ● Station Eleven ● On Beauty ●Bring Up the Bodies ● Bel Canto ● Tree of Smoke
A note: I have bolded and linked the two titles I mentioned in the video that I ordered physical copies of.
The wonderful thing about this list is that I would recommend any of these books. Some left a deeper impression than others (The Line of Beauty, Fun Home, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, The Corrections, Outline, Heavy, The Flamethrowers, H is for Hawk), but they all remain on my shelves at home (or in my digital library), and it was so exciting to see the list revealed.
Happy reading,
Sara
100 Best Books of the 21st Century