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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  • Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
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    Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward

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    'And then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped' Harriet Tubman.Jesmyn Ward's acclaimed memoir shines a light...
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  • Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi
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    Persepolis I & II by Marjane Satrapi

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    MSRP: ₱1,499.00
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    One of a handful of graphic novels that elevate the form into an intensely personal artistic statement, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s astonishing visual memoir of growing up in Iran. Intertwining...
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  • A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse
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    A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse

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    MSRP: ₱1,299.00
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    Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. His only friends are his neighbour, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in...
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  • The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar
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    The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between by Hisham Matar

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    MSRP: ₱899.00
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    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • The acclaimed memoir about fathers and sons, a legacy of loss, and, ultimately, healing—one of The New York Times Book Review’s t
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  • Middlesex (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by  Jeffrey Eugenides
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    Middlesex (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Jeffrey Eugenides

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    MSRP: ₱1,399.00
    Empire: ₱727.00
    A sweeping family epic spanning three generations, Middlesex may be huge in scope but through an accessible and unforgettable narrative voice, it transcends genre and lodges itself in must-read...
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  • Erasure by Percival Everett
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    Erasure by Percival Everett

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    MSRP: ₱999.00
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    A biting satire that's equally intellectually stimulating, this is a story of race in America and what it means to be Black. With sympathy and sarcasm, Percival Everett creates an entirely real...
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  • We the Animals by Justin Torres
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    We the Animals by Justin Torres

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
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    A NATIONAL BESTSELLER and an award-winning novel in stories surrounding a young, half-white, half-Puerto Rican boy grappling with life, love, and identity as he comes of age.In this groundbreaking...
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  • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
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    The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis

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    A treat for readers who love short, sharp comic stories, for fans of Lydia Davis's essays or her translation works like Madame Bovaryalike. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in...
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  • Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
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    Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson

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    MSRP: ₱1,599.00
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    With a nod to classic WW II stories like Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, National Book Award winner Johnson (Jesus's Son), switches gears from tightly-written short...
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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...
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  • Life After Life  by Kate Atkinson
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    Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
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    What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath...
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  • The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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    The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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    MSRP: ₱1,499.00
    Empire: ₱915.00
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of...
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  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startupby John Carreyrou
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    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startupby John Carreyrou

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    MSRP: ₱799.00
    Empire: ₱579.00
    NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post - The McKinsey Business Book of the Year.The...
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  • Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel
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    Station Eleven by Emily St.John Mandel

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
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    Bursting with themes and ideas, Station Eleven is a literary novel that uses the architecture of dystopian fiction to ask searching questions about art and life, survival and decay. Mandel skillfully...
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  • Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
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    Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

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    **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History**"Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the...
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  • Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller by Torrey Peters
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    Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten The Times Bestseller by Torrey Peters

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    MSRP: ₱999.00
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    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SO FAR...
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  • Sing, Unburied, Sing : SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 by Jesmyn Ward
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    Sing, Unburied, Sing : SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 by Jesmyn Ward

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
    Empire: ₱579.00
    WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a
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  • Bewilderment by Richard Powers
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    Bewilderment by Richard Powers

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
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    Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, BookPage, Li
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  • The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
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    The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
    Empire: ₱579.00
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity...
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  • 10:04 by Ben Lerner
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    10:04 by Ben Lerner

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    MSRP: ₱699.00
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    In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a...
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