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The Most Acclaimed Books of the 21st Century - Page 17

This list is composed of prize-winning books and entries on retrospective critics' lists from the past two decades. The sources are:
Man Booker Prize; Pulitzer Prize: Fiction, Drama; National Book Award: Fiction, Nonfiction; Hugo Award; Nebula Award; World Fantasy Award; PEN/Faulkner Award; Newberry Medal; Women's Prize for Fiction; Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; National Book Critics Circle Award Fiction; Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
The Guardian 100 Best Books of 21st Century; Tournament of Books semi-finalists and winners 2005-2020; NYT Ten Best Books Through Time (2004-2020); NYT Best American plays Since ANGELS IN AMERICA; CrimeReads 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade; Slate's Best Nonfiction from the Past 25 Years; AV Club's best comics of 2000-9/2010s; Vox best books of the 2010s; Lithub 10 Best Memoirs/Essay Collection of the 2010s; The Independent best essay collections of the 2010s; Vulture's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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Fever Dream (Samanta Schweblin)
Fever Dream
641
Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes (Samanta Schweblin)
Little Eyes
642
Samanta Schweblin
A Problem From Hell (Samantha Power)
A Problem From Hell
643
Samantha Power
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
644
Samin Nosrat
Night Prayers (Santiago Gamboa)
Night Prayers
645
Santiago Gamboa
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead (Sara Gran)
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead
646
Sara Gran
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (Sarah Bakewell)
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
647
Sarah Bakewell
The Wolves (Sarah Delappe)
The Wolves
648
Sarah Delappe
The Yellow House (Sarah M.Broom)
The Yellow House
649
Sarah M.Broom
A Song for a New Day (Sarah Pinsker)
A Song for a New Day
650
Sarah Pinsker
Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl)
Eurydice
651
Sarah Ruhl
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Fingersmith
652
Sarah Waters
The Paying Guests (Sarah Waters)
The Paying Guests
653
Sarah Waters
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
Convenience Store Woman
654
Sayaka Murata
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village (Schlitz, Laura Amy)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village
655
Schlitz, Laura Amy
Human Chain (Seamus Heaney)
Human Chain
656
Seamus Heaney
Galveston (Sean Stewart)
Galveston
657
Sean Stewart
Days Without End (Sebastian Barry)
Days Without End
658
Sebastian Barry
George Sprott, 1894–1975 (Seth)
George Sprott, 1894–1975
659
Seth
American Prison (Shane Bauer)
American Prison
660
Shane Bauer
Harlem Is Nowhere (Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)
Harlem Is Nowhere
661
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
How Should a Person Be? (Sheila Heti)
How Should a Person Be?
662
Sheila Heti
Five Days at Memorial (Sheri Fink)
Five Days at Memorial
663
Sheri Fink
War Dances (Sherman Alexie)
War Dances
664
Sherman Alexie
The Great Fire (Shirley Hazzard)
The Great Fire
665
Shirley Hazzard
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
666
Shoshana Zuboff
The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies
667
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Friend (Sigrid Nunez)
The Friend
668
Sigrid Nunez
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Simon Schama)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
669
Simon Schama
The Blazing World (Siri Hustvedt)
The Blazing World
670
Siri Hustvedt
A Stranger in Olondria (Sofia Samatar)
A Stranger in Olondria
671
Sofia Samatar
Wave (Sonali Deraniyagala)
Wave
672
Sonali Deraniyagala
The Water Cure (Sophie MacKintosh)
The Water Cure
673
Sophie MacKintosh
Cleopatra: A Life (Stacy Schiff)
Cleopatra: A Life
674
Stacy Schiff
War and Turpentine (Stefan Hertmans)
War and Turpentine
675
Stefan Hertmans
Between Riverside and Crazy (2015) (Stephen Adly Guirgis)
Between Riverside and Crazy (2015)
676
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Jesus Hopped the a Train (Stephen Adly Guirgis)
Jesus Hopped the a Train
677
Stephen Adly Guirgis
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
678
Stephen Greenblatt
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
679
Stephen Greenblatt
The Humans (A Play) (Stephen Karam)
The Humans (A Play)
680
Stephen Karam
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