So far…

Night Watch

This list was released on the 13th of September 2019 in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/best-books-of-the-21st-century

1. Wolf Hall (2009) by Hilary Mantell
2. Gilead (2004) by Marilynne Robinson
3. Secondhand Time (2013, translated 2016) by Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich
4. Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro
5. Austerlitz (2001, translated 2001) by WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell
6. The Amber Spyglass (2000) by Philip Pullman
7. Between the World and Me (2015) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
8. Autumn (2016) by Ali Smith
9. Cloud Atlas (2004) by David Mitchell
10. Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11. My Brilliant Friend (2011, translated 2012) by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein
12. The Plot Against America (2004) by Philip Roth
13. Nickel and Dimed (2001) by Barbara Ehrenreich
14. Fingersmith (2002) by Sarah Waters
15. The Sixth Extinction (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert
16. The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen
17. The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
18. The Shock Doctrine (2007) by Naomi Klein
19. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) by Mark Haddon
20. Life After Life (2013) by Kate Atkinson
21. Sapiens (2011, translated 2014) by Yuval Noah Harari, translated by Harari with John Purcell and Haim Watzman
22. Tenth of December (2013) by George Saunders
23. The Noonday Demon (2001) by Andrew Solomon
24. A Visit from the Goon Squad (2011) by Jennifer Egan
25. Normal People (2018) by Sally Rooney
26. Capital in the Twenty First Century (2013, translated 2014) by Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
27. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001) by Alice Munro
28. Rapture (2005) by Carol Ann Duffy
29. A Death in the Family (2009, translated 20012) by Karl One Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett
30. The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead
31. The Argonauts (2015) by Maggie Nelson
32. The Emperor of All Maladies (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee
33. Fun Home (2006) by Alison Bechdel
34. Outline (2014) by Rachel Cusk
35. The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) by Edmund de Waal
36. Experience (2000) by Martin Amis
37. The Green Road (2015) by Anne Enright
38. The Line of Beauty (2004) by Alan Hollinghurst
39. White Teeth (2000) by Zadie Smith
40. The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion
41. Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan
42. Moneyball (2010) by Michael Lewis
43. Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) by Claudia Rankine
44. Hope in the Dark (2004) by Rebecca Solnit
45. Levels of Life (2013) by Julian Barnes
46. Human Chain (2010) by Seamus Heaney
47. Persepolis (2003-2004, translated 2003-2004) by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Mattias Ripa
48. Night Watch (2002) by Terry Pratchett
49. Why Be Happy When you Could Be Normal (2011) by Jeanette Winterson
50. Oryx and Crake (2003) by Margaret Atwood
51. Brooklyn (2009) by Colm Tóibín
52. Small Island (2004) by Andrea Levy
53. True History of the Kelly Gang (2000) by Peter Carey
54. Women & Power (2017) by Mary Beard
55. The Omnivores Dilemma (2006) by Michael Pollan
56. Underland (2019) by Robert Macfarlane
57. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (2000) by Michael Chabon
58. Postwar (2005) by Tony Judt
59. The Beauty of the Husband (2002) by Anne Carson
60. Dart (2002) by Alice Oswald
61. This House of Grief (2014) by Helen Garner
62. Mother’s Milk (2006) by Edward St Aubyn
63. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skloot
64. On Writing (2000) by Stephen King
65. Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn
66. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2014) by Carlo Rovelli
67. The Silence of the Girls (2018) by Pat Barker
68. The Constant Gardener (2001) by John le Carré
69. The Infatuations (2011, translated 2013) by Javier Maías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
70. Notes on a Scandal (2003) by Zoë Heller
71. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth (2000) by Chris Ware
72. The Age of Surveillance Capital (2019) by Shoshana Zuboff
73. Nothing to Envy (2009) by Barbara Demick
74. Days Without End (2016) by Sebastian Barry
75. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009, translated 2018) by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
76. Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman
77. Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009, translated 2015) by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman
78. The Fifth Season (2015) by NK Jemisin
79. The Spirit Level (2009) by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett
80. Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) by Ted Chiang
81. Harvest (2013) by Jim Crace
82. Coraline (2013) by Neil Gaiman
83. Tell Me How It Ends (2016, translated 2017) by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Luiselli and Lizzie Davis
84. The Cost of Living (2018) by Deborah Levy
85. The God Delusion (2006) by Richard Dawkins
86. Adults in the Room (2017) by Yanis Varoufakis
87. Priestdaddy (2017) by Patricia Lockwood
88. Noughts & Crosses (2001) by Malorie Blackman
89. Bad Blood (2000) by Lorna Sage
90. Visitation (2008, translated 2010) by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
91. Light (2002) by M John Harrison
92. The Siege (2001) by Helen Dunmore
93. Darkmans (2007) by Nicola Barker
94. The Tipping Point (2000) by Malcolm Gladwell
95. Chronicles: Volume One (2004) by Bob Dylan
96. A Little Life (2015) by Hanya Yanagihara
97. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) by JK Rowling
98. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005, translated 2008) by Ste