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