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NY Times: 100 Best Books of the Century
Hypelist - Updated 10/20/25
From NYT’s definitive book list. A century in pages. How many have you seen?
Ranked from 1 to 100 (highest to lowest)
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Book 1)
Elena Ferrante · 2012
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel · 2009
The Known World
Edward P. Jones · 2009
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001
2666: A Novel
Roberto Bolaño · 2013
The Underground Railroad: A Novel
Colson Whitehead · 2016
Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald · 2001
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2006
Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
Marilynne Robinson · 2004
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Junot Díaz · 2007
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2007
The Road
Cormac McCarthy, Ltd. 2006 M-71, Tom Stechschulte · 2009
Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy Book 1)
Rachel Cusk · 2015
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon · 2000
The Sellout: A Novel
Paul Beatty · 2015
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
George Saunders · 2018
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2020
Erasure: A Novel
Percival Everett · 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond · 2016
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo · 2014
Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage
Alice Munro · 2002
The Overstory: A Novel
Richard Powers · 2018
Random Family
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc · 2003
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2002
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004
The Last Samurai
Helen DeWitt · 2016
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward · 2017
White Teeth (Vintage International)
Zadie Smith · 2003
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst · 2004
Salvage the Bones: A Novel
Jesmyn Ward · 2012
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine · 2014
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel · 2007
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015
The Years
Annie Ernaux · 2017
The Savage Detectives: A Novel
Roberto Bolano · 2008
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan · 2010
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald · 2015
Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan · 2021
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
Marlon James · 2014
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Tony Judt · 2006
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1)
N. K. Jemisin · 2015
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 2015
The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
Donna Tartt · 2013
Home
Toni Morrison · 2012
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Marjane Satrapi · 2004
The Vegetarian
Han Kang · 2016
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan Diaz · 2022
Life After Life: A Novel
Kate Atkinson · 2014
Train Dreams: A Novella
Denis Johnson · 2012
Runaway
Alice Munro · 2005
Tenth of December: Stories
George Saunders · 2014
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright · 2007
The Flamethrowers
Rachel Kushner · 2014
Nickel and Dimed (20th Anniversary Edition)
Barbara Ehrenreich · 2021
Stay True: A Memoir
Hua Hsu · 2022
Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002
Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · 2018
Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner
Barbara Kingsolver · 2022
10:04: A Novel
Ben Lerner · 2015
Veronica
Mary Gaitskill · 2006
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai · 2018
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth · 2004
We the Animals
Justin Torres · 2011
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon · 2013
The Friend: A Novel
Sigrid Nunez · 2018
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander · 2012
All Aunt Hagar’s Children
Edward P. Jones · 2007
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen · 2021
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich · 2017
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV
Robert A. Caro · 2013
Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout · 2008
Exit West: A Novel
Mohsin Hamid · 2017
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection)
Tayari Jones · 2018
Septology
Jon Fosse · 2022
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
Lucia Berlin · 2016
The Story of the Lost Child: A Novel (Neapolitan Novels, 4)
Elena Ferrante · 2015
Pulphead: Essays
John Jeremiah Sullivan · 2011
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor · 2020
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut · 2021
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee · 2011
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2001
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Roughcut)
David W. Blight · 2018
Detransition, Baby: A Novel
Torrey Peters · 2021
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis · 2010
The Return
Hisham Matar · 2017
The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) (The Sympathizer, 1)
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2016
The Human Stain
Philip Roth · 2000
The Days of Abandonment
Elena Ferrante · 2005
Station Eleven: A novel
Emily St. John Mandel · 2014
On Beauty
Zadie Smith · 2005
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel · 2012
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya V. Hartman · 2019
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Jesmyn Ward · 2013
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2023
How to Be Both
Ali Smith · 2014
Tree Of Smoke
Denis Johnson · 2007
