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The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: A Printable List

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My Brilliant Friend, by Elena Ferrante
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Atonement, by lan McEwan
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The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
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Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
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Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
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The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
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The Last Samurai, by Helen DeWitt
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The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen
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Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward
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2666, by Roberto Bolaño
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White Teeth, by Zadie Smith
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The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead
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The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst
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Austerlitz, by W.G. Sebald
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Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward
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Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Citizen, by Claudia Rankine
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Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
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Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz
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Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
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The Years, by Annie Ernaux
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The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
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The Savage Detectives, by Roberto Bolaño
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Outline, by Rachel Cusk
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A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
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Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
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H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
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Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan
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The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
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A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
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Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders
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Postwar, by Tony Judt
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Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Fifth Season, by N.K. Jemisin
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Erasure, by Percival Everrett
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The Argonauts, by Maggie Nelson
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Evicted, by Matthew Desmond
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The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo
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A Mercy, by Toni Morrison
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Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
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The Overstory, by Richard Powers
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The Vegetarian, by Han Kang
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Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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Trust, by Hernan Diaz
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