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The Most Acclaimed Books of the 21st Century

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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Love Is Power, or Something Like That (A. Igoni Barrett)
Love Is Power, or Something Like That (A. Igoni Barrett)
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May We Be Forgiven (A.M. Homes)
May We Be Forgiven (A.M. Homes)
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Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
Midnight in Chernobyl (Adam Higginbotham)
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Fortune Smiles (Adam Johnson)
Fortune Smiles (Adam Johnson)
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The Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
The Orphan Master's Son (Adam Johnson)
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole Leblanc)
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole Leblanc)
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Tender Is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)
Tender Is the Flesh (Agustina Bazterrica)
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (Aimee Bender)
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An Obedient Father (Akhil Sharma)
An Obedient Father (Akhil Sharma)
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Family Life (Akhil Sharma)
Family Life (Akhil Sharma)
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Freshwater (Akwaeke Emezi)
Freshwater (Akwaeke Emezi)
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Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
Broken Glass (Alain Mabanckou)
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The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
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Promethea (Alan Moore)
Promethea (Alan Moore)
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After the Music Stopped (Alan S. Blinder)
After the Music Stopped (Alan S. Blinder)
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The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
The World Without Us (Alan Weisman)
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The Book of My Lives (Aleksandar Hemon)
The Book of My Lives (Aleksandar Hemon)
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Zero (Ales Kot)
Zero (Ales Kot)
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Box Office Poison (Alex Robinson)
Box Office Poison (Alex Robinson)
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (Alex Ross)
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century (Alex Ross)
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Autumn (Ali Smith)
Autumn (Ali Smith)
22
How to Be Both (Ali Smith)
How to Be Both (Ali Smith)
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The Accidental (Ali Smith)
The Accidental (Ali Smith)
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Dear Life (Alice Munro)
Dear Life (Alice Munro)
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (Alice Munro)
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Runaway (Alice Munro)
Runaway (Alice Munro)
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Dart (Alice Oswald)
Dart (Alice Oswald)
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Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
Fun Home (Alison Bechdel)
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A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Amanda Foreman)
A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Amanda Foreman)
30
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Amy Hempel)
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel (Amy Hempel)
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Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Amy Wilentz)
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Amy Wilentz)
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Small Island (Andrea Levy)
Small Island (Andrea Levy)
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The Invention of Nature (Andrea Wulf)
The Invention of Nature (Andrea Wulf)
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Less (Andrew Sean Greer)
Less (Andrew Sean Greer)
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Far From the Tree (Andrew Solomon)
Far From the Tree (Andrew Solomon)
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Andrew Solomon)
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The Turner House (Angela Fluornoy)
The Turner House (Angela Fluornoy)
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The New Yorker Stories (Ann Beattie)
The New Yorker Stories (Ann Beattie)
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Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie)
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