List of the best modern books

Reading a book in time can radically change your thoughts, views and life itself for the better. But how do you find your book in the amazing variety of books?



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In Russia alone, about 100,000 titles of books are published annually. The shelves of bookstores are bursting with a huge amount of diverse literature. In such conditions, it is easy to succumb to temptation and buy a dummy in a bright super cover.





For that to happen, "Site" prepared for you ranking of the 100 best books Twenty-first century. This list takes into account the opinions of hundreds of authors and authoritative literary critics. He will help you find the book that will become your loyal friend and answer the most burning questions.

The best modern books Top-100 books of the XXI century

1. "Amendments," Jonathan Franzen
   The novel “Amendments”, published in 2001, brought forty-two-year-old Jonathan Franzen worldwide fame and put him on a par with the classics of world literature. This is a satirical saga about a typical American family, from which it is clear how she looked, what she lived and what the America of the nineties counted on. The book sold millions of copies, won the National Book Award of the United States and was translated into 35 languages.
   
   
   
   
   
2. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
   Critics unanimously call this novel “the first great novel of the new century.” Indeed, here readers will see all the classical traditions of romance in the scenery of modern reality. Sibylla is a single mother, in whose family all were unrealized geniuses. Her son Ludo needs some kind of male role model, or rather several. And so Ludo revisits the Seven Samurai over and over again, trying on episodes of Kurosawa’s masterpiece on various situations of his own life.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Don't Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
   A beautiful book that is rightfully included in Top 100 Best Books Twenty-first century. Its author is a native Japanese, a graduate of the literary seminar Malcolm Bradbury and a winner of the Booker Prize (for the novel “The Remnant of the Day”). In 2010, the film adaptation of the novel was released. Directed by Mark Romanek, the main roles were performed by Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley.
   
   
   
   
   
4. "1Q84," Haruki Murakami
   A huge novel in three parts, which is a kind of reinterpretation of Orwell’s 1984 and written in the best traditions of Murakami’s style: reality, illusion, science fiction, philosophy, knowledge of the human soul, protest against violence and violation of free will.
   
   
   
5. “Chernobyl Prayer”, Svetlana Alexievich
   The main man-made disaster of the XX century is devoted to the book of Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2015. On the cover of the German edition is a quote from an article published in one of Germany's largest newspapers: "No one can turn their backs on the tragedy of this book." And the prophetic subtitle: "Chronicle of the Future."
   
   
   
   
   
6. "The Platform," Michel Houellebecq
   In The Platform, Houellebecq, dubbed by critics as the “Carl Marx of sex,” explores the phenomenon of sexual freedom. His hero travels to Thailand, where he, like Gauguin, is destined to find and lose his paradise.
   
   
   
7. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
   Each of the seven novels of the popular series describes one year in the life of the main character - a boy-wizard named Harry Potter and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, studying at the school of witchcraft and magic Hogwarts. The Harry Potter books were filmed by Warner Bros. Pictures in the form of a series of eight films, which became one of the most profitable in the history of cinema.
   
   
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8. "Middle Sex," Jeffrey Eugenides
   The world bestselling American classic Jeffrey Eugenides was released in 2002, and the next year the author received a Pulitzer Prize for it. The stunning, subtle and sensual novel revolves around a very painful topic – the search for self-identification by a person who cannot be attributed to either the male or female sex.
   
   
   
   
   
9. "The Goldfinger," Donna Tartt
   The third novel by American author Donna Tartt, published in 2013. The novel is named after the painting by the famous Dutch artist Karel Fabricius “The Goldfinch” (1654), which plays an important role in the fate of the main character.
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10. "Atonement," Ian McEwan
    “Atonement” is a “chronicle of lost time” led by a teenage girl, reevaluating and rethinking the events of “adult” life in her bizarre and childishly cruel way. In 2007, the eponymous film adaptation with Keira Knightley in the title role, which won two Golden Globe Awards and one of seven Oscar nominations.
    
    
    
    
    
11. The Contour Trilogy, by Rachel Cask
12. "The Sale," Paul Beatty
13. "2666" by Roberto Bolaño
14. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
15. The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante
16. What Should a Man Be? by Sheila Hety
17. Erasure, Percival Everett
18. "Firethrowers," Rachel Kushner
19. Exit from Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
20. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
21. The Beauty Line by Alan Hollinghurst
    
    
    
22. Conspiracy Against America by Philip Roth
23. Do Everything in the Dark by Gary Indiana
24. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
25. "Obsessives," Elif Batuman
26. Wolfhall, by Hilary Mantel
27. The Short and Amazing Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
28. Ooga-Booga, Frederick Seidel
29. Family Life by Akhil Sharma
30. "Veronica," Mary Gateskill
31. "Zone One," Colson Whitehead
32. Lives Unlike Mine by Emmanuel Carrer
33. "Mr. Fox," Helen Oyeyeyemi
34. The Certain Sadness of Lemon Pie by Aimee Bender
35. “My struggle. Book 2 by Carl Uwe Knausgaard
36. "White Girls," Hilton Els
37. NW, Zadie Smith
38. "The Disappeared One," Gillian Flynn
    
    
    
39. All My Empty Regrets by Miriam Towes
40. The Department of Spectacular Reasoning by Jenny Offill
41. The Stunning Adventures of Cavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
42. Black and Blur, Fred Moten
43. Citizen: American Lyrics by Claudia Rankin
44. Ghachar Ghochar, Vivek Shanbhag
45. "The Fine Work," Sarah Waters
46. Austerlitz, Winfried Georg Max Zebald
47. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
48. The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson
49. The True Story of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
50. Amber Telescope by Philip Pullman
51. "Homeland," Sam Lipsyth
52. "The Mortals," Norman Rush
53. The Book of Salt, Monique Chuong
54. The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
55. The Sluts, Dennis Cooper
56. The French Suite by Irene Nemirowski
57. Guest of Honor, Joy Williams
58. "Oblivion," David Foster Wallace
59. The Needle's Eye, Fanny Howe
60. Magic for Dummies by Kelly Link
61. American Genius by Lynn Tilman
62. "The Raven Magician," Ngugi Wa Thiongo
63. The Winter Bone by Daniel Woodrell
    
    
    
64. The Afterlife: A Memoir, Donald Antrim
65. Eat the Document, Dana Spiotta
66. "Home" by Marilyn Robinson
67. “Project Lazarus” by Alexander Hemon
68. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
69. Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzaler
70. Fine Just the Way It Is, Annie Prue
71. Spreadeagle, Kevin Killian
72. Notes From No Man's Land by Eula Biss
73. Scenes from Provincial Life by John Coetzee
74. A Premonition of the End by Julian Barnes
75. "Seven Years," Peter Stamm
76. The Super Sad Story of True Love by Gary Steingart
77. The Toothless Addam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
78. "Capital," John Lanchester
79. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fontaine
80. The Gentrification of the Mind, Sarah Shulman
81. Taipei, Tao Lin
82. Constellation of Life Phenomena by Anthony Marra
83. The Ruined Earth Cycle by Nora K. Jemisin
84. The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
85. "Sympathizer," Viet Tan Nguyen
86. Preparation for the Net Life by Atticus Lish
87. A Brief History of Seven Murders by Marlon James
88. How to Be Two by Ali Smith
89. "The Road," Cormac McCarthy
    
    
    
90. Man We Reaped, Jesmine Ward
91. Essays and Memoirs by Albert Murray
92. Everything That Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
93. "Asymmetry," Lisa Holliday
94. The Generosity of the Maiden of the Sea, Denis Johnson
95. The Red Clock by Leni Zumas
96. "Priest," Patricia Lockwood
97. Tell Me How It Will End by Valeria Luiselli
98. The Best We Could Do, Ti Bui
99. Time to Grow Up by Jamie Attenberg
100. The Hate You Generate by Angie Thomas

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