Best Books of the 21st Century

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...

The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries have been made; its vagaries...

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...

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...

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...

#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...

Both an utterly unique exercise in dystopian fiction and a powerful portrayal of friendship at its most intimate, Never Let Me Go follows three students at the woozily pleasant Hailsham School as their preordained futures begin to unfold.    In one of...

"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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE.“Buzzy and enthralling...

A novel that pulses with memories of an improbable friendship, and questions about the intersection of art, style and fashion. A finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, here is an evocative novel about female...

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...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The blockbuster debut novel from "a preternaturally gifted" writer (The New York Times) and author of On Beauty and Swing Time—set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, reveling in the ecstatic...

A darkly humorous and touching study in grief and companionship, Nunez’s award-winning novel follows a woman who unexpectedly loses her mentor and best friend and inherits his huge, bereaved Great Dane. A moving story of love, friendship, grief,...

Gorgeous prose woven into the breakneck pace of a page-turning thriller. Set in Los Angeles among Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon, this is a story steeped in stakes and begging to be read. Don’t miss it. Now an HBO Limited Series...