Best Books of the 21st Century

Following up his back-to-back Pulitzer Prize winning novels, Colson Whitehead returns with a vivid, wildly entertaining heist novel that makes you feel as if you're walking down a bustling 125th Street in 1960s Harlem. A veritable page-turner from start...

Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American...

Now A Major New BBC comedy-drama starring BAFTA and Emmy award-winning actor Ben WhishawThe Multi-Million Copy Bestseller Now With an Exclusive New Preface by the AuthorA funny, moving and insightful celebration of the everyday heroes of our NHS. Kay...

A stunning collection including the story "Sea Oak," from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize.One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Decade.One of the Top 10 Books of 2014 – Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.A “thrilling, ambitious . . . intense” (Los Angeles Times)...

Winner of the National Book AwardJesmyn Ward, two-time National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing, delivers a gritty but tender novel about family and poverty in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina.A hurricane is building over the...

A series of childhood mistakes set our characters down winding paths propelled by fate and questionable decisions. Can forgiveness ever truly be found? Are we worthy of it? NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class,...

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 Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self,...