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The Most Acclaimed Books of the 21st Century - Page 17

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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Fever Dream (Samanta Schweblin)
Fever Dream
Samanta Schweblin
642
Little Eyes (Samanta Schweblin)
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
643
A Problem From Hell (Samantha Power)
A Problem From Hell
Samantha Power
644
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat (Samin Nosrat)
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat
645
Night Prayers (Santiago Gamboa)
Night Prayers
Santiago Gamboa
646
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead (Sara Gran)
Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead
Sara Gran
647
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (Sarah Bakewell)
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Sarah Bakewell
648
The Wolves (Sarah Delappe)
The Wolves
Sarah Delappe
649
The Yellow House (Sarah M.Broom)
The Yellow House
Sarah M.Broom
650
A Song for a New Day (Sarah Pinsker)
A Song for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker
651
Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl)
Eurydice
Sarah Ruhl
652
Fingersmith (Sarah Waters)
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
653
The Paying Guests (Sarah Waters)
The Paying Guests
Sarah Waters
654
Convenience Store Woman (Sayaka Murata)
Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
655
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village (Schlitz, Laura Amy)
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices From a Medieval Village
Schlitz, Laura Amy
656
Human Chain (Seamus Heaney)
Human Chain
Seamus Heaney
657
Galveston (Sean Stewart)
Galveston
Sean Stewart
658
Days Without End (Sebastian Barry)
Days Without End
Sebastian Barry
659
George Sprott, 1894–1975 (Seth)
George Sprott, 1894–1975
Seth
660
American Prison (Shane Bauer)
American Prison
Shane Bauer
661
Harlem Is Nowhere (Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)
Harlem Is Nowhere
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
662
How Should a Person Be? (Sheila Heti)
How Should a Person Be?
Sheila Heti
663
Five Days at Memorial (Sheri Fink)
Five Days at Memorial
Sheri Fink
664
War Dances (Sherman Alexie)
War Dances
Sherman Alexie
665
The Great Fire (Shirley Hazzard)
The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
666
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
667
The Emperor of All Maladies (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
668
The Friend (Sigrid Nunez)
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
669
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Simon Schama)
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Simon Schama
670
The Blazing World (Siri Hustvedt)
The Blazing World
Siri Hustvedt
671
A Stranger in Olondria (Sofia Samatar)
A Stranger in Olondria
Sofia Samatar
672
Wave (Sonali Deraniyagala)
Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala
673
The Water Cure (Sophie MacKintosh)
The Water Cure
Sophie MacKintosh
674
Cleopatra: A Life (Stacy Schiff)
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff
675
War and Turpentine (Stefan Hertmans)
War and Turpentine
Stefan Hertmans
676
Between Riverside and Crazy (2015) (Stephen Adly Guirgis)
Between Riverside and Crazy (2015)
Stephen Adly Guirgis
677
Jesus Hopped the a Train (Stephen Adly Guirgis)
Jesus Hopped the a Train
Stephen Adly Guirgis
678
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (Stephen Greenblatt)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
679
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Stephen Greenblatt)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
680
The Humans (A Play) (Stephen Karam)
The Humans (A Play)
Stephen Karam
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