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• 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times

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  As voted on by 503 book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

• My Brilliant Friend

  Ferrante, Elena,

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• The Warmth of Other Suns

  the Epic Story of America's Great Migration

  Wilkerson, Isabel

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• Wolf Hall

  a Novel

  Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022

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• The Known World

  Jones, Edward P.,

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• The Corrections

  Franzen, Jonathan,

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• 2666

  Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003

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• The Underground Railroad

  a Novel

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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• Austerlitz

  Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001,

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• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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• Gilead

  a Novel

  Robinson, Marilynne,

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• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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• The Year of Magical Thinking

  Didion, Joan,

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• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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• Outline

  Cusk, Rachel, 1967-

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• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin,

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• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

  a Novel

  Chabon, Michael,

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• The Sellout

  Beatty, Paul,

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• Lincoln in the Bardo

  a Novel

  Saunders, George, 1958-

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• Say Nothing

  a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

  Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

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