BEST NOVELS OF 21st CENTURY (2000-2024)

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