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. Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao (2007) Junot Díaz 
13. Herscht 07769 (2021) László Krasznahorkai
14. Hurricane Season (2017) Fernanda Melchor 
15. I Confess (2011) Jaume Cabre 
16. The Hunger Angel (2009) Herta Müller
17. The Last Samurai (2000) Helen DeWit
18. At Night All Blood Is Black (2018) David Diop
19. The Master (2004) Colm Tóibín 
20. The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay (2000) Michael Chabon 
21. Wolf Hall (2009) Hilary Mantel
22. My Struggle (2009-2011) Karl Ove Knausgård
23. Gilead (2004) Marilynne Robinson 
24. Atonement (2001) Ian McEwan 
25. Blinding (1996-2007) Mircea Cartarescu
26. James (2024) Percival Everett
27. The Crematorium (2007) Rafel Chirbes 
28. House of Leaves (2000) Mark Z. Danielewski 
29. Physics of Sorrow (2012) Georgi Gospodinov
30. Never Let Me Go (2005) Kazuo Ishiguro 
31. The Buddha in the Attic (2011) Julie Otsuka
32. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (2004) Susanna Clarke
33. Bartleby & Co (2001) Enrique Vila-Matas 
34. The Kindly Ones (2006) Jonathan Littell 
35. Red April (2006) Santiago Roncagliolo
36. Europas Hunde (2017) Alhierd Bacharevič
37. Brodeck's Report (2007) Philippe Claudel 
38. Voroshilovgrad (2010) Serhiy Zhadan
39. The Underground Railroad (2016) Colson Whitehead
40. Measuring the World (2005) Daniel Kehlmann
41. The Sense of an Ending (2011) Julian Barnes
42. The Half Brother (2001) Lars Saabye Christensen 
43. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) Ocean Vuong
44. Ducks, Newburyport (2019) Lucy Ellmann
45. Empire Falls (2001) Richard Russo
46. The Colonel (2009) Mahmoud Dowlatabadi 
47. The Vegetarian (2007) Han Knag
48. The Overstory (2019) Richard Powers
49. The Blind Assassin (2000) Margaret Atwood 
50. Out Stealing Horses (2003) Per Petterson 
51. Arthur & George (2005) Julian Barnes
52. Soldiers of Salamis (2001) Javier Cercas  
53. Fragments of Lichtenberg (2008) Pierre Senges
54. Saturday (2005) Ian McEwan
55. Tranquility (2001) Attila Bartis
56. Beauty is a Wound (2002) Eka Kurniawan
57. Outline (2014) Rachel Cusk
58. The End of Days (2012) Jenny Erpenbeck
59. A Little Life (2015) Hanya Yanagihara
60. Triste tigre (2023) Neige Sinno
61. Seiobo There Below (2008) László Krasznahorkai
62. The Emperor's Sands (2015-2018) Mia Couto
63. Homeland (2016) Fernando Aramburu
64. Laurus (2012) Eugene Vodolazkin
65. C (2010) Tom McCarthy
66. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
67. In Memory of Memory (2017)  Maria Stepanova
68. Human Acts (2014) Han Kang
69. The Prague Cemetery (2010) Umberto Eco 
70. An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter (2000), César Aira
71. Beijing Coma (2008) Ma Jian 
72. Day of the Oprichnik (2006) Vladimir Sorokin
73. Celestial Harmonies (2000) Péter Esterházy 
74. The Yacoubian Building (2002) Alaa Al-Aswany 
75. White Teeth (2000) Zadie Smith
76. Bel Canto (2001) Ann Patchett 
77. Compass (2015) Mathias Énard
78. The Nocilla Trilogy (2006-2009) Agustín Fernández Mallo
79. Fever Dream (2014) Samanta Schweblin
80. Dream of Ding Village (2006) Yan Lianke 
81. Lectura fácil (2018) Cristina Morales
82. On a Day Like This (2006) Peter Stamm
83. Middlesex (2002) Jeffrey Eugenides 
84. The Plot Against America (2004) Philip Roth
85. Vernon Subutex (2015-2017) Virginie Despentes 
86. Cloud Atlas (2004) David Mitchell 
87. Piano (2003) Jean Echenoz 
88. Life After Life (2013) Kate Atkinson
89. Limonov (2011) Emmanuel Carrère
90. Ravel (2006) Jean Echenoz
91. Earth and Ashes (2000) Atiq Rahimi 
92. No Country for Old Men (2005) Cormac McCarthy 
93. Open City (2012) Teju Cole
94. Three Strong Women (2009) Marie NDiaye
95. The White King (2005) György Dragomán 
96. A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps (2001) Alexander Chudakov 
97. HHhH (2010) Laurent Binet 
98. Harvest (2013) Jim Crace
99. Tree of Smoke (2007) Denis Johnson
100. Kruso (2014) Lutz Seiler
101. Morning and Evening (2000) Jon Fosse
102. Love in the New Millennium (2013) Can Xue
103. Tomb of Sand (2018) Geetanjali Shree
104. The Tower (2008) Uwe Tellkamp 
105. Americanah (2013) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
106. Origines (2019) Saša Stanišić
107. A Strangeness in My Mind (2014) Orhan Pamuk
108. Autumn (2016) Ali Smith
109. The Blind Side of the Heart (2007) Julia Franck 
110. The Goldfinch (2013) Donna Tartt
111. Windows on the World (2003) Frédéric Beigbeder
112. The Blue Fox (2003) Sjon 
113. Wizard of the Crow (2006) Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
114. Erasure (2001) Percival Everett.
115. Zuleikha (2015) Guzel Yakhina
116. Blooms of Darkness (2006) Aharon Appelfeld 
117. Time Shelter (2020) Georgi Gospodinov
118. Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) George Saunders
119. The Fortress of Solitude (2003) Jonathan Lethem 
120. K. (2011) Bernardo Kucinski
121. The Human Stain (2000) Philip Roth 
122. Laurel (2012) Evgeny Vodolazkin
123. Lost Children Archive (2019) Valeria Luiselli
124. This Blinding Absence of Light (2000) Tahar ben Jelloun 
125. Remainder (2005) Tom Mccarthy
126. Kintu (2013) Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
127. Cutting for Stone (2009) Abraham Verghese 
128. Azazel (2008) Youssef Ziedan 
129.  Pure (2011) Andrew Miller
130. Olive Kitteridge (2008) Elizabeth Strout
131. The House of Paper (2002) Carlos María Domínguez
132. Visitation (2008) Jenny Erpenbeck
133. Please Look After Mom (2009) Shin Kyung-sook 
134. Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) Jesmyn Ward 
135. The Housekeeper and the Professor (2003) Yōko Ogawa 
136. Running (2009) Jean Echenoz
137. Fates and Furies (2015) Lauren Groff 
138. Tirza (2006) Arnon Grunberg 
139. Purge (2008) Sofi Oksanen
140. The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a Manic-Depressive Teenager in the Summer of 1969 (2015) Frank Witzel 
141. The Dream Faculty (2006) Sara Stridsberg 
142. Parallel Stories (2005) Peter Nadas 
143. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) Olga Tokarczuk
144. Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2003) Alberto Manguel
145. Mourning (2017) Eduardo Halfon
146. Shadow Country (2008) Peter Matthiessen
147. Ilustrado (2008) Miguel Syjuco 
148. Where Reasons End (2019) Yiyun Li 
149. Life and Death are Wearing Me Out (2006) Mo Yan 
150. The Sound of Things Falling (2013)Juan Gabriel Vásquez
151. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) Peter Carey
152. Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013) Ahmed Saadawi
153. Against the Day (2006) Thomas Pynchon 
154. Tol (2002) Murat Uyurkulak 
155. Life of Hunger (2004) Amelie Nothomb 
156. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing (2013) Eimear McBride
157. The Line of Beauty (2004) Alan Hollinghurst
158. Middle C (2013) William H. Gass
159. Canada (2012) Richard Ford 
160. The Last Lover (2005) Can Xue
161. Night Train to Lisbon (2004) Pascal Mercier 
162. Brick Lane (2003) Monica Ali
163. Kafka On the Shore (2002) Haruki Murakami
164. 2017 (2006) Olga Slavnikova 
165. The Twin (2006) Gerbrand Bakker 
166. The Flamethrowers (2013) Rachel Kushner
167. The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2008) Paolo Giordano 
168. The House of the Mosque (2005) Kader Abdolah 
169. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (2004) Viktor Pelevin 
170. La Grande (2005) Juan José Saer 
171. Kafka's Leopards (2000) Moacyr Scliar 
172. The Last of the Vostiaks (2002) Diego Marani 
173. Armand V. (2006) Dag Solstad 
174. The Petrovs in and Around the Flu (2017) Alexey Salnikov
175. Celestial Harmonies (Harmonia Caelestis, 2000) Péter Esterházy
176. The Human Part (2009) Kari Hotakainen 
177. Dublinesque (2010) Enrique Vila-Matas 
178. In the Flesh (2002) Christa Wolf 
179. Mend the Living (2013) Maylis de Kerangal
180. The Solace of the Night Sky (2015) Dzevad Karahasan
181. New Finnish Grammar (2000) Diego Marani
182. The Patience Stone (2012) Atiq Rahimi
183. Ella Minnow Pea (2001) Mark Dunn 
184. The Successor (2003) İsmail Kadare 
185. Snow White and Russian Red (2002) Dorota Masłowska 
186. My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) Ottessa Moshfegh
187. My South Seas Sleeping Beaty: A Tale of Memory and Longing (2001) Zhang Guixing 
188. The Sea (2005) John Banville 
189. In the Night of Time  (2009) Antonio Muñoz Molina 
190. Freud’s Sister (2007) Goce Smilevski 
191. Station Eleven (2014) Emily St. John Mandel
192. Maidenhair (2005) Mikhail Shishkin 
193. Blindly (2006) Claudio Magris 
194. Snow (2002) Orhan Pamuk 
195. Omega Minor (2004) Paul Verhaeghen 
196. The Confessions of Noa Weber (2000) Gail Hareven 
197. Jerusalem (2005) Gonçalo M. Tavares 
198. A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) Jennifer Egan
199. GraceLand (2004) Chris Abani 
200. Golden Age (2001) Michal Ajvaz 
201. Optic Nerve (2014) María Gainza 
202. Summertime (2009) J. M. Coetzee 
203. The Author of Iceland (2001) Hallgrímur Helgason 
204. Our Man in Iraq (2007) Robert Perišić 
205. The Luminous Novel (2005) Mario Levrero
206. She Who Remains (2018) Rene Karabash
207. Another Time, Another Life (2006) Leif G.W. Persson
208. The Sympathizer (2015) Viet Thanh Nguyen
209. Baudolino (2000) Umberto Eco 
210. The Novel of the Poet (2011) Murathan Mungan
211. The Great Fire (2003) Shirley Hazzard
212. The Garden of Evening Mists (2012) Tan Twan Eng
213. The Emperor of Lies (2009) Steve Sem-Sandberg
214. Uninhabited Paradise (2008) Ana María Matute
215. The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (2015-2016) Ricardo Piglia 
216. Under the Strange Name of Ramanthis Erevous: Death Came Last (2001) Zyranna Zateli 
217. That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001) John McGahern
218. The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (2006) Wolf Haas
219. Paradise (2005) A. L. Kennedy
220. NW  (2012) Zadie Smith
221. The Shadow of the Wind (2001) Carlos Ruiz Zafón 
222. Censoring an Iranian Love Story (2009) Shahriar Mandanipour 
223. We, the Drowned (2006) Carsten Jensen 
224. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) Ben Fountain
225. Beasts of No Nation (2005) Uzodinma Iweala 
226. The Blazing World  (2014) Siri Husvedt 
227. Dreams of Dreams and the Last Three Days of Fernando Pessoa (2000) Antonio Tabucchi 
228. Wolves of the Crescent Moon (2003) Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
229. Agaat (2004) Marlene van Niekerk
230. Brecht's Mistress (2003) Jacques-Pierre Amette