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Bookstagram's 102 Best Books of the 21st Century (U.S.) - Page 2

Organized and compiled by @surabhi.reading, @openbookopen, & @ambershelf.
A few notes on methodology:
* We made a survey inviting bookstagrammers to submit their ballot for the ten best books published in the U.S. in the 21st century. We shared it widely over 4 days.
* We received 324 ballots and a total of 3,156 individual book votes. Not everyone who submitted a ballot submitted ten books.
* We only accepted one ballot from each individual. If a person submitted two different ballots, we only counted the latest submission.
* We used the same rules as the NYT: books published in the U.S. after January 1, 2000. We disqualified books published before that.
* If someone submitted a series, we counted it as the first book in the series. If the first book was published before January 1, 2000, we disqualified it.
* We sorted books by total number of votes, then chose to present a top 102 instead of a top 100 to avoid a tiebreaker process.
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Crying in H Mart: A Memoir (Michelle Zauner)
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner
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Gilead (Marilynne Robinson)
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
43
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (Alexander Chee)
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
44
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
45
The Sentence (Louise Erdrich)
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
46
Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
47
When Breath Becomes Air (Paul Kalanithi, MD)
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi, MD
48
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
49
Circe (Madeline Miller)
Circe
Madeline Miller
50
How High We Go in the Dark (Sequoia Nagamatsu)
How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
51
Martyr! (Kaveh Akbar)
Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
52
Minor Detail (Adania Shibli)
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
53
Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe)
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
54
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
55
The Vanishing Half (Brit Bennett)
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
56
Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
57
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Patrick Radden Keefe)
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
58
Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
59
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
60
The Death of Vivek Oji (Akwaeke Emezi)
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
61
The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt)
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
62
The Heart's Invisible Furies (John Boyne)
The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne
63
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
64
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (Hanif Abdurraqib)
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
65
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
66
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
67
Caste (Isabel Wilkerson)
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
68
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
69
The Round House (Louise Erdrich)
The Round House
Louise Erdrich
70
Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
71
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
72
Normal People (Sally Rooney)
Normal People
Sally Rooney
73
The Great Believers (Rebecca Makkai)
The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai
74
The New Jim Crow (Michelle Alexander)
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
75
The Undocumented Americans (Kate Cornejo Villavicencio)
The Undocumented Americans
Kate Cornejo Villavicencio
76
Girl, Woman, Other (Bernardine Evaristo)
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
77
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Gabrielle Zevin)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
78
The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
79
Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver)
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
80
Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
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