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The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far)

It's a bit early, of course, to pass definitive judgment on the literary legacy of the '00s, or how it stacks up against that of the 1930s, or 1850s. Who knows what will be read 50 years from now? But, with the end of the decade just a few months away, it seemed to us at The Millions a good time to pause and take stock, to call your attention to books worthy of it, and perhaps to begin a conversation.
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The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
1
Jonathan Franzen
The Known World (Edward P. Jones)
The Known World
2
Edward P. Jones
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
3
David Mitchell
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
4
Roberto Bolaño
Pastoralia - George Saunders
Pastoralia - George Saunders
5
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
6
W.G. Sebald
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
7
Cormac McCarthy
Out Stealing Horses (Per Petterson)
Out Stealing Horses
8
Per Petterson
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
9
Alice Munro
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go
10
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)
The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
11
Junot Diaz
Twilight of the Superheroes
Twilight of the Superheroes
12
Mortals
Mortals
13
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
14
Ian McEwan
Varieties of Disturbance
Varieties of Disturbance
15
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex
16
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem)
The Fortress of Solitude
17
Jonathan Lethem
Stranger Things Happen (Kelly Link)
Stranger Things Happen
18
Kelly Link
American Genius (Lynne Tillman)
American Genius
19
Lynne Tillman
Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
20
Marilynne Robinson
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