The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian

Given by The Guardian

100 Works 823,419 Livros 25,755 Críticas 4.0

Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

Year Awarded:
2019
ObraEtiqueta de Ordem
Wolf Hall (2009) por Hilary Mantel
1
Gilead (2004) por Marilynne Robinson
2
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2013) por Svetlana Alexievich
3
Never Let Me Go (2005) por Kazuo Ishiguro
4
Austerlitz (2001) por W. G. Sebald
5
The Amber Spyglass (2000) por Philip Pullman
6
Between the World and Me (2015) por Ta-Nehisi Coates
7
Autumn (2016) por Ali Smith
8
Cloud Atlas (2004) por David Mitchell
9
Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) por Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10
My Brilliant Friend (2011) por Elena Ferrante
11
The Plot Against America (2004) por Philip Roth
12
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) por Barbara Ehrenreich
13
Falsas Aparências (2002) por Sarah Waters
14
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) por Elizabeth Kolbert
15
The Corrections (2001) por Jonathan Franzen
16
The Road (2006) por Cormac McCarthy
17
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007) por Naomi Klein
18
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003) por Mark Haddon
19
Life After Life (2013) por Kate Atkinson
20
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) por Yuval Noah Harari
21
Tenth of December: Stories (2013) por George Saunders
22
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (2001) por Andrew Solomon
23
A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) por Jennifer Egan
24
Normal People (2018) por Sally Rooney
25
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013) por Thomas Piketty
26
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories (1986) por Alice Munro
27
Rapture (2005) por Carol Ann Duffy
28
A morte do pai: A minha luta 1 (2009) por Karl Ove Knausgård
29
The Underground Railroad (2016) por Colson Whitehead
30
The Argonauts (2015) por Maggie Nelson
31
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) por Siddhartha Mukherjee
32
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006) por Alison Bechdel
33
Outline (2014) por Rachel Cusk
34
A Lebre de Olhos de Âmbar (2010) por Edmund De Waal
35
Experience (2000) por Martin Amis
36
The Green Road (2015) por Anne Enright
37
The Line of Beauty (2004) por Alan Hollinghurst
38
White Teeth (2000) por Zadie Smith
39
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) por Joan Didion
40
Atonement (2001) por Ian McEwan
41
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) por Michael Lewis
42
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) por Claudia Rankine
43
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2004) por Rebecca Solnit
44
Levels of Life (2013) por Julian Barnes
45
Human Chain (2010) por Seamus Heaney
46
The Complete Persepolis (2001) por Marjane Satrapi
47
Night Watch (2002) por Terry Pratchett
48
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) por Jeanette Winterson
49
Oryx and Crake (2003) por Margaret Atwood
50
Brooklyn (2009) por Colm Tóibín
51
Small Island (2004) por Andrea Levy
52
True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) por Peter Carey
53
Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) por Mary Beard
54
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) por Michael Pollan
55
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019) por Robert Macfarlane
56
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) por Michael Chabon
57
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005) por Tony Judt
58
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001) por Anne Carson
59
Dart (2002) por Alice Oswald
60
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial (2015) por Helen Garner
61
Mother's Milk (2006) por Edward St. Aubyn
62
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) por Rebecca Skloot
63
On Writing (2000) por Stephen King
64
Gone Girl (2012) por Gillian Flynn
65
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015) por Carlo Rovelli
66
The Silence of the Girls (2018) por Pat Barker
67
The Constant Gardener (2001) por John le Carré
68
The Infatuations (2011) por Javier Marías
69
Notes on a Scandal (2003) por Zoë Heller
70
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) por Chris Ware
71
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019) por Shoshana Zuboff
72
A Longa Noite de um Povo (2009) por Barbara Demick
73
Days without End (2016) por Sebastian Barry
74
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) por Olga Tokarczuk
75
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) por Daniel Kahneman
76
Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) por Yuri Herrera
77
The Fifth Season (2015) por N. K. Jemisin
78
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2009) por Richard Wilkinson
79
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) por Ted Chiang
80
Harvest (2013) por Jim Crace
81
Coraline (2002) por Neil Gaiman
82
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017) por Valeria Luiselli
83
The Cost of Living (2018) por Deborah Levy
84
The God Delusion (2006) por Richard Dawkins
85
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment (2017) por Yanis Varoufakis
86
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017) por Patricia Lockwood
87
Noughts and Crosses (2001) por Malorie Blackman
88
Bad Blood: A Memoir (2001) por Lorna Sage
89
Light (2002) por M. John Harrison
91
The Siege (2001) por Helen Dunmore
92
Darkmans (2007) por Nicola Barker
93
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) por Malcolm Gladwell
94
Chronicles: Volume One (2004) por Bob Dylan
95
A Little Life (2015) por Hanya Yanagihara
96
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) por J. K. Rowling
97
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) por Stieg Larsson
98
Broken Glass (2005) por Alain Mabanckou
99
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (2006) por Nora Ephron
100
Visitation (2008) por Jenny Erpenbeck

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