BEST NOVELS OF 21st CENTURY (2000-2025)

1. 2666 (2004) Roberto Bolaño 
2. The Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) Elena Ferrante
3. Septology (2019-2021) Jon Fosse
4. The Feast of the Goat (2000) Mario Vargas Llosa 
5. Austerlitz (2001) W. G. Sebald 
6. The Books of Jacob (2014) Olga Tokarczuk
7. The Corrections (2001) Jonathan Franzen 
8. Solenoid (2015) Mircea Cărtărescu
9. The Known World (2003) Edward P. Jones
10. Your Face Tomorrow (2002-2007) Javier Marías 
11. The Road (2006) Cormac McCarthy 
12. Wolf Hall (2009) Hilary Mantel
13. Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (2007) Junot Díaz 
14. Herscht 07769 (2021) László Krasznahorkai
15. The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay (2000) Michael Chabon 
16. I Confess (2011) Jaume Cabre 
17. Wizard of the Crow (2006) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
18. The Last Samurai (2000) Helen DeWit
19. At Night All Blood Is Black (2018) David Diop
20. The Master (2004) Colm Tóibín 
21. My Struggle (2009-2011) Karl Ove Knausgård
22. Gilead (2004) Marilynne Robinson 
23. Atonement (2001) Ian McEwan 
24. Blinding (1996-2007) Mircea Cartarescu
25. The Crematorium (2007) Rafel Chirbes 
26. House of Leaves (2000) Mark Z. Danielewski 
27. Physics of Sorrow (2012) Georgi Gospodinov
28. Never Let Me Go (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro 
29. The Buddha in the Attic (2011) Julie Otsuka
30. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) Susanna Clarke
31. Bartleby & Co (2001) Enrique Vila-Matas 
32. The Kindly Ones (2006) Jonathan Littell 
33. Americanah (2013) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
34. Europas Hunde (2017) Alhierd Bacharevič
35. Voroshilovgrad (2010) Serhiy Zhadan
36. The Underground Railroad (2016) Colson Whitehead
37. Measuring the World (2005) Daniel Kehlmann
38. The Sense of an Ending (2011) Julian Barnes
39. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) Ocean Vuong
40. Ducks, Newburyport (2019) Lucy Ellmann
41. Empire Falls (2001) Richard Russo
42. An Inventory of Losses (2018) Judith Schalansky
43. The Colonel (2009) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 
44. The Vegetarian (2007) Han Knag
45. The Overstory (2019) Richard Powers
46. The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood 
47. Out Stealing Horses (2003) Per Petterson 
48. Arthur & George (2005) Julian Barnes
49. Soldiers of Salamis (2001) Javier Cercas  
50. Fragments of Lichtenberg (2008) Pierre Senges
51. Saturday (2005) Ian McEwan
52. Beauty is a Wound (2002) Eka Kurniawan
53. Outline (2014) Rachel Cusk
54. The End of Days (2012) Jenny Erpenbeck
55. A Little Life (2015) Hanya Yanagihara
56. The Half Brother (2001) Lars Saabye Christensen 
57. Hurricane Season (2017) Fernanda Melchor 
58. Triste tigre (2023) Neige Sinno
59. Seiobo There Below (2008) László Krasznahorkai
60. The Emperor's Sands (2015-2018) Mia Couto
61. Homeland (2016) Fernando Aramburu
62. Laurus (2012) Eugene Vodolazkin
63. C (2010) Tom McCarthy
64. In Memory of Memory (2017)  Maria Stepanova
65. Human Acts (2014) Han Kang
66. The Prague Cemetery (2010) Umberto Eco 
67. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000), César Aira
68. Beijing Coma (2008) Ma Jian 
69. Day of the Oprichnik (2006) Vladimir Sorokin
70. Celestial Harmonies (2000) Péter Esterházy 
71. The Yacoubian Building (2002) Alaa Al-Aswany 
72. White Teeth (2000) Zadie Smith
73. Bel Canto (2001) Ann Patchett 
74. Compass (2015) Mathias Énard
75. The Nocilla Trilogy (2006-2009) Agustín Fernández Mallo
76. Fever Dream (2014) Samanta Schweblin
77. Dream of Ding Village (2006) Yan Lianke 
78. Lectura fácil (2018) Cristina Morales
79. On a Day Like This (2006) Peter Stamm
80. Middlesex (2002) Jeffrey Eugenides 
81. The Plot Against America (2004) Philip Roth
82. Vernon Subutex (2015-2017) Virginie Despentes 
83. Cloud Atlas (2004) David Mitchell 
84. Life After Life (2013) Kate Atkinson
85. Limonov (2011) Emmanuel Carrère
86. Ravel (2006) Jean Echenoz
87. Earth and Ashes (2000) Atiq Rahimi 
88. No Country for Old Men (2005) Cormac McCarthy 
89. Open City (2012) Teju Cole
90. Three Strong Women (2009) Marie NDiaye
91. The White King (2005) György Dragomán 
92. A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps (2001) Alexander Chudakov 
93. HHhH (2010) Laurent Binet 
94. Harvest (2013) Jim Crace
95. Tree of Smoke (2007) Denis Johnson
96. Morning and Evening (2000) Jon Fosse
97. Love in the New Millennium (2013) Can Xue
98. Tomb of Sand (2018) Geetanjali Shree
99. The Tower (2008) Uwe Tellkamp 
100. Origines (2019) Saša Stanišić
101. A Strangeness in My Mind (2014) Orhan Pamuk
102. Autumn (2016) Ali Smith
103. The Blind Side of the Heart (2007) Julia Franck 
104. The Goldfinch (2013) Donna Tartt
105. Windows on the World (2003) Frédéric Beigbeder
106. The Blue Fox (2003) Sjon 
107. Erasure (2001) Percival Everett.
108. Zuleikha (2015) Guzel Yakhina
109. Blooms of Darkness (2006) Aharon Appelfeld 
110. Time Shelter (2020) Georgi Gospodinov
111. Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) George Saunders
112. The Fortress of Solitude (2003) Jonathan Lethem 
113. K. (2011) Bernardo Kucinski
114. The Human Stain (2000) Philip Roth 
115. Laurel (2012) Evgeny Vodolazkin
116. Lost Children Archive (2019) Valeria Luiselli
117. This Blinding Absence of Light (2000) Tahar ben Jelloun 
118. Remainder (2005) Tom Mccarthy
119. Kintu (2013) Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
120. Cutting for Stone (2009) Abraham Verghese 
121. Azazel (2008) Youssef Ziedan 
122.  Pure (2011) Andrew Miller
123. Olive Kitteridge (2008) Elizabeth Strout
124. The House of Paper (2002) Carlos María Domínguez
125. Visitation (2008) Jenny Erpenbeck
126. Please Look After Mom (2009) Shin Kyung-sook 
127. Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Jesmyn Ward 
128. The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) Yōko Ogawa 
129. Running (2009) Jean Echenoz
130. Fates and Furies (2015) Lauren Groff 
131. Tirza (2006) Arnon Grunberg 
132. Purge (2008) Sofi Oksanen
133. The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969 (2015) Frank Witzel 
134. The Dream Faculty (2006) Sara Stridsberg 
135. Parallel Stories (2005) Peter Nadas 
136. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) Olga Tokarczuk
137. Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2003) Alberto Manguel
138. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
139. Mourning (2017) Eduardo Halfon
140. Shadow Country (2008) Peter Matthiessen
141. Ilustrado (2008) Miguel Syjuco 
142. Where Reasons End (2019) Yiyun Li 
143. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) Mo Yan 
144. The Sound of Things Falling (2013)Juan Gabriel Vásquez
145. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) Peter Carey
146. Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) Ahmed Saadawi
147. Against the Day (2006) Thomas Pynchon 
148. Tol (2002) Murat Uyurkulak 
149. Life of Hunger (2004) Amelie Nothomb 
150. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013) Eimear McBride
151. The Line of Beauty (2004) Alan Hollinghurst
152. Middle C (2013) William H. Gass
153. Canada (2012) Richard Ford 
154. The Last Lover (2005) Can Xue
155. Night Train to Lisbon (2004) Pascal Mercier 
156. Brick Lane (2003) Monica Ali
157. Kafka On the Shore (2002) Haruki Murakami
158. 2017 (2006) Olga Slavnikova 
159. The Twin (2006) Gerbrand Bakker 
160. The Flamethrowers (2013) Rachel Kushner
161. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2008) Paolo Giordano 
162. The House of the Mosque (2005) Kader Abdolah 
163. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004) Viktor Pelevin 
164. La Grande (2005) Juan José Saer 
165. Kafka's Leopards (2000) Moacyr Scliar 
166. The Last of the Vostiaks (2002) Diego Marani 
167. Armand V. (2006) Dag Solstad 
168. The Petrovs in and Around the Flu (2017) Alexey Salnikov
169. Celestial Harmonies (Harmonia Caelestis, 2000) Péter Esterházy
170. Brodeck's Report (2007) Philippe Claudel 
171. The Human Part (2009) Kari Hotakainen 
172. Dublinesque (2010) Enrique Vila-Matas 
173. In the Flesh (2002) Christa Wolf 
174. Mend the Living (2013) Maylis de Kerangal
175. The Solace of the Night Sky (2015) Dzevad Karahasan
176. New Finnish Grammar (2000) Diego Marani
177. The Patience Stone (2012) Atiq Rahimi
178. Ella Minnow Pea (2001) Mark Dunn 
179. The Successor (2003) İsmail Kadare 
180. Snow White and Russian Red (2002) Dorota Masłowska 
181. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) Ottessa Moshfegh
182. My South Seas Sleeping Beaty: A Tale of Memory and Longing (2001) Zhang Guixing 
183. The Sea (2005) John Banville 
184. In the Night of Time  (2009) Antonio Muñoz Molina 
185. Freud’s Sister (2007) Goce Smilevski 
186. Station Eleven (2014) Emily St. John Mandel
187. Maidenhair (2005) Mikhail Shishkin 
188. Blindly (2006) Claudio Magris 
189. Snow (2002) Orhan Pamuk 
190. Omega Minor (2004) Paul Verhaeghen 
191. The Confessions of Noa Weber (2000) Gail Hareven 
192. Jerusalem (2005) Gonçalo M. Tavares 
193. A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Jennifer Egan
194. GraceLand (2004) Chris Abani 
195. Golden Age (2001) Michal Ajvaz 
196. Optic Nerve (2014) María Gainza 
197. Summertime (2009) J. M. Coetzee 
198. The Author of Iceland (2001) Hallgrímur Helgason 
199. Our Man in Iraq (2007) Robert Perišić 
200. The Luminous Novel (2005) Mario Levrero
201. Piano (2003) Jean Echenoz 
202. Another Time, Another Life (2006) Leif G.W. Persson
203. The Sympathizer (2015) Viet Thanh Nguyen
204. Baudolino (2000) Umberto Eco 
205. The Novel of the Poet (2011) Murathan Mungan
206. The Great Fire (2003) Shirley Hazzard
207. The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) Tan Twan Eng
208. The Emperor of Lies (2009) Steve Sem-Sandberg
209. Uninhabited Paradise (2008) Ana María Matute
210. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (2015-2016) Ricardo Piglia 
211. Under the Strange Name of Ramanthis Erevous: Death Came Last (2001) Zyranna Zateli 
212. That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001) John McGahern
213. The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (2006) Wolf Haas
214. Paradise (2005) A. L. Kennedy
215. NW  (2012) Zadie Smith
216. The Shadow of the Wind (2001) Carlos Ruiz Zafón 
217. Censoring an Iranian Love Story (2009) Shahriar Mandanipour 
218. We, the Drowned (2006) Carsten Jensen 
219. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) Ben Fountain
220. Beasts of No Nation (2005) Uzodinma Iweala 
221. The Blazing World  (2014) Siri Husvedt 
222. Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa (2000) Antonio Tabucchi 
223. Wolves of the Crescent Moon (2003) Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
224. Agaat (2004) Marlene van Niekerk
225. Brecht's Mistress (2003) Jacques-Pierre Amette