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The Most Acclaimed Books of the 21st Century - Page 19

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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Declare (Tim Powers)
Declare
721
Tim Powers
Legacy of Ashes (Tim Weiner)
Legacy of Ashes
722
Tim Weiner
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Tim Wu)
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
723
Tim Wu
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Timothy Egan)
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
724
Timothy Egan
Next to Normal (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey)
Next to Normal
725
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey
Remainder (Tom McCarthy)
Remainder
726
Tom McCarthy
City of Refuge (Tom Piazza)
City of Refuge
727
Tom Piazza
I Loved You More (Tom Spanbauer)
I Loved You More
728
Tom Spanbauer
I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
I Am Charlotte Simmons
729
Tom Wolfe
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire (Tom Zoellner)
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
730
Tom Zoellner
There There (Tommy Orange)
There There
731
Tommy Orange
Postwar (Tony Judt)
Postwar
732
Tony Judt
August: Osage County (Tracy Letts)
August: Osage County
733
Tracy Letts
Thick and Other Essays (Tressie McMillan Cottom)
Thick and Other Essays
734
Tressie McMillan Cottom
Powers (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Powers
735
Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Other Wind
736
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lost Children Archive (Valeria Luiselli)
Lost Children Archive
737
Valeria Luiselli
Tell Me How It Ends (Valeria Luiselli)
Tell Me How It Ends
738
Valeria Luiselli
Property (Valerie Martin)
Property
739
Valerie Martin
The Great Offshore Grounds (Vanessa Veselka)
The Great Offshore Grounds
740
Vanessa Veselka
Adults in the Room (Varoufakis)
Adults in the Room
741
Varoufakis
A Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge)
A Deepness in the Sky
742
Vernor Vinge
Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)
Rainbows End
743
Vernor Vinge
The Changeling (Victor Lavalle)
The Changeling
744
Victor Lavalle
The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
The Sympathizer
745
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Odd Woman and the City (Vivian Gornick)
The Odd Woman and the City
746
Vivian Gornick
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
747
W.G. Sebald
The Designated Mourner (Wallace Shawn)
The Designated Mourner
748
Wallace Shawn
Chemistry (Weike Wang)
Chemistry
749
Weike Wang
The Realistic Joneses (Will Eno)
The Realistic Joneses
750
Will Eno
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
751
William Finnegan
This Tender Land (William Kent Krueger)
This Tender Land
752
William Kent Krueger
American Ground (William Langewiesche)
American Ground
753
William Langewiesche
Europe Central (William T. Vollmann)
Europe Central
754
William T. Vollmann
Nine Continents (Xialou Guo)
Nine Continents
755
Xialou Guo
Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
Homegoing
756
Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
Transcendent Kingdom
757
Yaa Gyasi
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi
758
Yann Martel
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (Yiyun Li)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
759
Yiyun Li
Signs Preceding the End of the World (Yura Herrari)
Signs Preceding the End of the World
760
Yura Herrari
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