As Requested… Here is the Full List

Per request, I am posting the full list that was sent to me for the Top Books of the 21st century, as chosen by you.

I’m really looking forward to reading The Goldfinch in book club!

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Life after Life by Kate Atkinson

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes

Women and Power by Mary Beard 

Our Dear Friends in Moscow by Irina Borogan

Milkman by Anna Burns

The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 

Records of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz 

Trust by Hernan Diaz 

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Those Who Stay and Those Who Leave by Elena Ferrante

Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Into the Woods by Tana French

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Orbital by Samantha Harvey 

The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Fifth Season by N.K Jemesin

News of the World by Paulette Jiles

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Black Cat White Dog by Kelly Link

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Station 11 by Emily St. John Mandel

The Road by Cormac McCarthy 

Atonement by Ian McEwan

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause- Benjamin Nathans

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 

Just Kids by Patti Smith

There Are Riversin the Sky by Elif Shafak

Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Rope Burns. Stories from the corner FX Toole

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles 

Flipped by Wendelin van Daanen

The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen

Cutting for Stone by Abraham Varghese

Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

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