Best Books of the 21st Century

Many of us find joy in looking back and taking stock of our reading lives, which is why we here at Empire Book Store decided to mark the first 25 years of this century at determining the most important, influential books of the era.

We hope you’ll discover a book you’ve always meant to read, or encounter a beloved favorite you’d like to pick up again. Above all, we hope you’re as inspired and dazzled as we are by the breadth of subjects, voices, opinions, experiences and imagination represented here.

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  • Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 by Claire Keegan
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    Small Things Like These: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 by Claire Keegan

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    An ordinary man and his extraordinary story. You'll want a copy for you and one for someone you love.Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that...
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  • My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Series #1) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein  (Translator)
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    My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels Series #1) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

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    Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling “enduring masterpiece” about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the...
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  • The Vegetarian by Han Kang
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    The Vegetarian by Han Kang

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    WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation...
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  • Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
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    Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk

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    Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes...
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  • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hua Hsu
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    Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Hua Hsu

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    In prose that shimmers, Hua Hsu gives tender elegy to a pivotal friend abruptly lost, reminding us of the impacts of unlikely connections and the persistent ripple of memory. Crisp and spellbinding, Stay True is a coming of age memoir that...
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  • Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
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    Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

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    SALLY ROONEY NAMED TO THE 2019 TIME 100 NEXT LIST - WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES  YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD - ONE OF BUZZFEED'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE AND SLATE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...
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  • A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara
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    A Little Life: The Million-Copy Bestseller by Hanya Yanagihara

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    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis...
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  • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
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    When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

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    When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust...
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  • The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
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    The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

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    One of the most groundbreaking memoirs of the twenty-first century, Nelson’s blazingly intelligent and emotionally perceptive account of her partner Harry’s gender fluidity is luminous, hugely enlightening reading. Nominated for the...
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  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
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    Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

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    There are few modern writers more widely recognized for their brilliance than Cormac McCarthy, and this is him at his best, eviscerating the traditional Western novel and shining bright lights on the atrocities committed in America’s westward...
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  • The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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    The Secret History: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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    Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic. Under the influence of their charismatic...
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  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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    The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

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    This gutting memoir is a love letter to Joan's late husband, a prayer for her daughter, and the story of a winding search for peace after tremendous loss.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s...
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  • Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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    CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER •Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award •Nominated for the GLAAD Media AwardAlison...
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  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
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    The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

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    Nobel prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison's debut novel immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes...
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  • Persepolis I & II - Vintage Classics by Marjane Satrapi
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    Persepolis I & II - Vintage Classics by Marjane Satrapi

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    The brilliant graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Marjane Satrapi lived through the Iranian Revolution as a little girl. This is her classic memoir-in-comic-strips, the story of a child entangled in the history...
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  • Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Series #3) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein  (Translator)
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    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Series #3) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

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    Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times).In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO...
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  • The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Series #2) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein  (Translator)
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    The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Series #2) by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (Translator)

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    A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: “Everyone should read anything with Ferrante’s name on it” (The Boston Globe).The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name...
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  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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    The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

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    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book...
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  • Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel by Meg Mason
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    Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel by Meg Mason

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    "Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." — Ann Patchett. “Improbably charming...will...
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  • Sula by Toni Morrison
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    Sula by Toni Morrison

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    From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of...
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