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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Bel Canto  by Ann Patchett
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    Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

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    Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a...
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  • Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 by George Saunders
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    Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 by George Saunders

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE   The "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as well as an...
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  • Bluets by Maggie Nelson
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    Bluets by Maggie Nelson

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    MSRP: ₱1,299.00
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    'Maggie Nelson is one of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' - Olivia Laing Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way...
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  • Pachinko (National Book Awards Winner) by Min Jin Lee
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    Pachinko (National Book Awards Winner) by Min Jin Lee

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
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    A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San...
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  • Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
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    Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen

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    'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' -- Liz Jensen, Guardian.Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a...
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  • The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai
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    The Great Believers: A Novel by Rebecca Makkai

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    PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST.NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST.A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER.ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER.THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER.Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy...
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  • Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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    Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
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    WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be...
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  • Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
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    Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

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    WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE.  The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn...
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  • Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
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    Second-hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

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    MSRP: ₱999.00
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    Within what Max Liu in The Independent described as a volume ‘important without sounding self-important… heart-breaking and impossible to put down,’ Second-Hand Time distils, in its extraordinary collage of voices...
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  • A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
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    A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin

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    One of The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2015.One of Jezebel's Favorite Books of 2016.A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin.With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of...
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  • The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
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    The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
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    'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' -- MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' -- JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' -- A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is...
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  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Michael Chabon
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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Michael Chabon

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    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics, now with special bonus material by the author—soon to...
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  • Austerlitz - Penguin Essentials by W. G. Sebald
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    Austerlitz - Penguin Essentials by W. G. Sebald

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    Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his...
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  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
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    Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

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    An "official" record that focuses solely on battlefields and political speeches and the passage of legislation presents an incomplete picture of our history; this is an accessible, entertaining story of social change from an overlooked quarter of our...
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  • Septology - Winner Of The 2023 Nobel Prize In Literature by Jon Fosse
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    Septology - Winner Of The 2023 Nobel Prize In Literature by Jon Fosse

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    A multilayered meditation on beauty, memory, and regret, this intimate seven-novel sequence from the Norwegian Nobelist is an transcendent exploration of two versions of the same life – that of two ageing painters, one consumed by alcohol,...
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  • The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
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    The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
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    The second novel by Donna Tartt,  bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize),  The Little Friend  is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi,...
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