Monday, 24 January 2022

Guardian Top 100 Books since 2000

  1. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

  2. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  3. Second Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich

  4. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

  5. Austerlitz by WG Sebald

  6. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

  7. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  8. Autumn by Ali Smith

  9. Cloud Atlas David Mitchel

  10. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  11. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

  12. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

  13. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

  14. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

  15. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

  16. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

  17. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

  18. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein

  19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night‑Time by Mark Haddon

  20. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

  21. Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

  22. Tenth of December by George Saunders

  23. The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon

  24. A Visit from The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

  25. Normal People by Sally Rooney

  26. Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty

  27. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro

  28. Rapture by Carol Ann Duffy

  29. A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

  30. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  31. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

  32. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

  33. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

  34. Outline by Rachel Cusk

  35. The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal

  36. Experience by Martin Amis

  37. The Green Road by Anne Enright

  38. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

  39. White Teeth by Zadie Smith

  40. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

  41. Atonement by Ian McEwan

  42. Moneyball by Michael Lewis

  43. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

  44. Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

  45. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes

  46. Human Chain by Seamus Heaney

  47. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

  48. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

  49. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson

  50. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

  51. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín

  52. Small Island by Andrea Levy

  53. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

  54. Women & Power by Mary Beard

  55. The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan

  56. Underland by Robert Macfarlane

  57. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

  58. Postwar by Tony Judt

  59. The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson

  60. Dart by Alice Oswald

  61. This House of Grief by Helen Garner

  62. Mother’s Milk by Edward St Aubyn

  63. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

  64. On Writing by Stephen King

  65. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

  66. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

  67. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

  68. The Constant Gardener by John le Carré

  69. The Infatuations by Javier Marías

  70. Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller

  71. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware

  72. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

  73. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

  74. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

  75. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

  76. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

  77. Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera

  78. The Fifth Season by NK Jemisin

  79. The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket

  80. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

  81. Harvest by Jim Crace

  82. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

  83. Tell Me How It Ends by Valeria Luiselli

  84. The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy

  85. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

  86. Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis

  87. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood

  88. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

  89. Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

  90. Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck

  91. Light by M John Harrison

  92. The Siege by Helen Dunmore

  93. Darkmans by Nicola Barker

  94. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

  95. Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan

  96. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

  97. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

  98. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

  99. Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou

  100. I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron