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The Most Acclaimed Books of the 21st Century - Page 9

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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Mrs. Kimble (Jennifer Haigh)
Mrs. Kimble
321
Jennifer Haigh
Apollo's Angels (Jennifer Homans)
Apollo's Angels
322
Jennifer Homans
Underground Railroad Game (Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard)
Underground Railroad Game
323
Jennifer Kidwell and Scott R. Sheppard
Visitation (Jenny Erpenbeck)
Visitation
324
Jenny Erpenbeck
Dept. of Speculation (Jenny Offill)
Dept. of Speculation
325
Jenny Offill
New Kid (Jerry Craft)
New Kid
326
Jerry Craft
Men We Reaped (Jesmyn Ward)
Men We Reaped
327
Jesmyn Ward
Salvage the Bones (Jesmyn Ward)
Salvage the Bones
328
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
329
Jesmyn Ward
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Interpreter of Maladies
330
Jhumpa Lahiri
The Lowland (Jhumpa Lahiri)
The Lowland
331
Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Unaccustomed Earth
332
Jhumpa Lahiri
Trick Mirror (Jia Tolentino)
Trick Mirror
333
Jia Tolentino
These Truths: A History of the United States (Jill Lepore)
These Truths: A History of the United States
334
Jill Lepore
This One Summer (Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki)
This One Summer
335
Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki
Being Dead (Jim Crace)
Being Dead
336
Jim Crace
Harvest (Jim Crace)
Harvest
337
Jim Crace
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (Jim Holt)
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
338
Jim Holt
Among Others (Jo Walton)
Among Others
339
Jo Walton
Tooth and Claw (Jo Walton)
Tooth and Claw
340
Jo Walton
The Year of Magical Thinking (Joan Didion)
The Year of Magical Thinking
341
Joan Didion
Improvement (Joan Silber)
Improvement
342
Joan Silber
She Said (Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey)
She Said
343
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
Camouflage (Joe Haldeman)
Camouflage
344
Joe Haldeman
Giant Days (John Allison)
Giant Days
345
John Allison
The Sea (John Banville)
The Sea
346
John Banville
Bad Blood (John Carreyrou)
Bad Blood
347
John Carreyrou
Every Dead Thing (John Connolly)
Every Dead Thing
348
John Connolly
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
The Fault in Our Stars
349
John Green
Pulphead (John Jeremiah Sullivan)
Pulphead
350
John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Constant Gardener (John Le Carre)
The Constant Gardener
351
John Le Carre
March : Book One (John Lewis)
March : Book One
352
John Lewis
March : Book Three (John Lewis)
March : Book Three
353
John Lewis
March : Book Two (John Lewis)
March : Book Two
354
John Lewis
Doubt (John Patrick Shanley)
Doubt
355
John Patrick Shanley
Redshirts (John Scalzi)
Redshirts
356
John Scalzi
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (John Vaillant)
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
357
John Vaillant
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Jon Ronson)
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
358
Jon Ronson
Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
Freedom
359
Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
360
Jonathan Franzen
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