De 100 bästa böckerna från 2000-talet enligt läsarna

Kritiker, författare och andra bokintresserade satte ihop en lista med 100 böcker som de tycker är de bästa som getts ut under 2000-talet. Nu har läsarna fått säga sitt och trots att de två listorna har 39 böcker gemensamt, finns det stora skillnader. Jag har läst 26 böcker på listan, några tycker jag är fantastiska, men andra tycker jag definitivt inte hör hemma där. Ännu fler böcker jag vill läsa (klicka här för att komma till min TBR-lista) och jag gläds åt att läsarna röstat fram en lite bredare lista sett till både genre och geografisk spridning. Till och med en svensk bok finns med, nämligen Fredrik Backmans bok om Ove på plats 100. Behöver jag säga att jag håller på med en egen lista?! Den dyker upp så snart jag tänkt klart. Här är läsarnas hundra böcker så länge.

1. Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, (2022)*
2. All the lights we can not see, Anthony Doer, (2014)
3. A gentleman in Moscow, Amor Towles, (2016)
4. The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, (2013)
5. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, (2017)*
6. Educated, Tara Westover, (2018)
7. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, (2022)*
8. My brilliant friend, Elena Ferrante, (2012)*
9. Never let me go, Kazuo Ishiguro, (2005)*
10. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, (2014)
11. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara, (2015)*
12. The Overstory, Richard Powers, (2018)
13. The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, (2016)
14. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, (2009)
15. The Road, Cormac McCarthy, (2006)*
16. Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, (2017)
17. Atonement, Ian McEwan, (2002)*
18. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, (2002)
19. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, (2013)*
20. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, (2000)
21. Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi, (2016)*
22. Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, (2020)*
23. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, (2010)
24. Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, (2001)
25. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, (2004)*
26. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen, (2001)
27. Normal People, Sally Rooney, (2018)
28. Cutting for stone, Abraham Verghese, (2009)
29. Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe, (2019)
30. A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, (2010)
31. Circe, Madeline Miller, (2018)*
32. Cloud Cuckoo Land, Anthony Doerr, (2021)
33. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak, (2005)*
34. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell, (2004)
35. The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, (2023)
36. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion,(2005)
37. The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead, (2019)
38. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, (2018)
39. Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, (2008)
40. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini, (2003)*
41. Life After Life, Kate Atkinson, (2013)
42. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, (2007)*
43. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates, (2015)
44. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride, (2023)
45. There There, Tommy Orange, (2018)
46. The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller, (2011)
47. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, (2022)
48. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong, (2019)*
49. Gone girl, Gillian Flynn, (2012)*
50. James, Percival Everett, (2024)
51. Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, (2020)
52. The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah, (2015)
53. Trust, Hernan Diaz, (2022)
54. 11/22/63, Stephen King, (2011)
55. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, (2013)
56. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, (2008)*
57. Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, (2021)*
58. White Teeth, Zadie Smith, (2000)*
59. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens, (2018)*
60. The Dutch House, Ann Patchett, (2019)
61. North Woods, Daniel Mason, (2023)
62. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, (2015)
63. The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin, (2015)
64. 2666, Roberto Bolaño, (2008)
65. Evicted, Matthew Desmond,(2016)
66. Just kids, Patti Smith, (2010)
67. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, (2020)
68. The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson, (2003)
69. Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann, (2017)
70. Know My Name, Chanel Miller, (2019)
71. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward, (2017)
72. Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, (2021)
73. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J K Rowling, (2007)
74. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, (2021)
75. The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles, (2021)
76. Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, (2014)
77. Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, (2011)
78. Kafka in the Shore, Haruki Murakami, (2006)*
79. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami, (2011)*
80. Deacon King Kong, James McBride, (2020)
81. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, (2010)
82. Tom Lake, Ann Patchett, (2023)
83. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann, (2009)
84. Tenth of December, George Saunders, (2013)
85. When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi, (2016)
86. Life of Pi, Yann Martel, (2001)
87. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardino Evaristo, (2019)
88. The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, (2004)*
89. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls, (2005)
90. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado, (2019)
91. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, (2021)
92. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk, (2009)*
93. Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt, (2022)
94. The Bee Sting, Paul Murray, (2023)
95. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini, (2007)*
96. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennet, (2020)*
97. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh, (2018)
98. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart, (2020)
99. Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe, (2021)
100. A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman, (2012)*

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