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100 Best Books of the 21st Century

I read a few of them!

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.

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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