BEST NOVELS OF 21st CENTURY (2000-2021)

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