Geen nieuws, maar voor de volledigheid: 21 september 2019 kwam The Guardian met een top 100 van de 21ste eeuw, met op 1, 2 en 3 Hilary Mantel, Marilynne Robinson en Svetlana Aleksijevitsj. Bekijk de hele lijst.

Door het tijdsverschil van enkele jaren ontbreken er natuurlijk titels die bij de lijsten uit 2024 en 2025 hoog staan, maar veel is vertrouwd: Mantel had bij The Sunday Times de hele top 25 kunnen vullen (ze kozen voor Bring Up the Bodies) en staat in de lijsten van The New York Times en The Observer, en die van De Groene Amsterdammer. Robinson en Aleksijevitsj staan ook bij The New York Times, Ishiguro, Sebald, Coates, Smith, Mitchell, Ali en Zadie Smith, Roth, Ferrante, Ehrenreich, Franzen, McCarthy - er is grote overlap, vooral met de Amerikaanse krant.

  1. Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009) [bespreking]
  2. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (2004)
  3. Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time (2013), vertaald door Bela Shayevich (2016) [recensie]
  4. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
  5. WG Sebald, Austerlitz (2001), vertaald door Anthea Bell (2001) [fragment]
  6. Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (2000)
  7. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015) [aanbeveling]
  8. Ali Smith, Autumn (2016) [fragment | recensie]
  9. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) [aanbeveling]
  10. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)
  11. Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2011), vertaald door Ann Goldstein (2012) [recensie]
  12. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (2004)
  13. Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed (2001)
  14. Sarah Waters, Fingersmith (2002)
  15. Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction (2014)
  16. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (2001)
  17. Cormac McCarthy, The Road (2006) [recensie]
  18. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine (2007)
  19. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003)
  20. Kate Atkinson, Life After Life (2013) [vertalerstoelichting]
  21. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens (2011), vertaald door Harari with John Purcell and Haim Watzman (2014)
  22. George Saunders, Tenth of December (2013) [fragment]
  23. Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon (2001)
  24. Jennifer Egan, A Visit from The Goon Squad (2011) [fragment]
  25. Sally Rooney, Normal People (2018) [fragment | recensie]
  26. Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty First Century (2013), vertaald door Arthur Goldhammer (2014)
  27. Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001)
  28. Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture (2005)
  29. Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family (2009), vertaald door Don Bartlett (2012) [fragment]
  30. Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016) [fragment]
  31. Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (2015) [fragment]
  32. Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies (2010) [fragment]
  33. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home (2006)
  34. Rachel Cusk, Outline (2014) [recensie]
  35. Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010)
  36. Martin Amis, Experience (2000)
  37. Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015)
  38. Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (2004)
  39. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000)
  40. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) [recensie]
  41. Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001) [aanbeveling]
  42. Michael Lewis, Moneyball (2010)
  43. Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) [fragment]
  44. Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark (2004)
  45. Julian Barnes, Levels of Life (2013)
  46. Seamus Heaney, Human Chain (2010)
  47. Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis (2000-2003), vertaald door Mattias Ripa (2003-2004)
  48. Terry Pratchett, Night Watch (2002)
  49. Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) [recensie]
  50. Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003)
  51. Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (2009) [fragment]
  52. Andrea Levy, Small Island (2004)
  53. Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang (2000)
  54. Mary Beard, Women & Power (2017)
  55. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006)
  56. Robert Macfarlane, Underland (2019) [fragment | recensie]
  57. Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000)
  58. Tony Judt, Postwar (2005) [aanbeveling Matthijs Lok]
  59. Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband (2002) [fragment]
  60. Alice Oswald, Dart (2002)
  61. Helen Garner, This House of Grief (2014)
  62. Edward St Aubyn, Mother’s Milk (2006)
  63. Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)
  64. Stephen King, On Writing (2000)
  65. Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl (2012)
  66. Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2014)
  67. Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (2018) [recensie]
  68. John le Carré, The Constant Gardener (2001)
  69. Javier Marías, The Infatuations (2011), vertaald door Margaret Jull Costa (2013)
  70. Zoë Heller, Notes on a Scandal (2003)
  71. Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000)
  72. Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)
  73. Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy (2009)
  74. Sebastian Barry, Days Without End (2016) [fragment]
  75. Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), vertaald door Antonia Lloyd-Jones (2018) [fragment | recensie]
  76. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
  77. Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009), vertaald door Lisa Dillman (2015)
  78. NK Jemisin, The Fifth Season (2015)
  79. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level (2009)
  80. Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others (2002)
  81. Jim Crace, Harvest (2013)
  82. Neil Gaiman, Coraline (2002)
  83. Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends (2016), vertaald door Luiselli met Lizzie Davis (2017)
  84. Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living (2018)
  85. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (2006)
  86. Yanis Varoufakis, Adults in the Room (2017)
  87. Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy (2017)
  88. Malorie Blackman, Noughts & Crosses (2001)
  89. Lorna Sage, Bad Blood (2000)
  90. Jenny Erpenbeck, Visitation (2008), vertaald door Susan Bernofsky (2010)
  91. M John Harrison, Light (2002)
  92. Helen Dunmore, The Siege (2001)
  93. Nicola Barker, Darkmans (2007)
  94. Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (2000)
  95. Bob Dylan, Chronicles (2004
  96. Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (2015) [fragment]
  97. JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) [recensie]
  98. Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2005), vertaald door Steven T. Murray (2008)
  99. Alain Mabanckou, Broken Glass (2005), vertaald door Helen Stevenson (2009)
  100. Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck (2006)