The list on the NY Times website: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...

Ordered according to the author’s last name:

Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013

The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander, 2010

Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich; translated by Bela Shayevich, 2016

Life After Life, Kate Atkinson, 2013

The Sellout, Paul Beatty, 2015

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel, 2006

A Manual for Cleaning Women, Lucia Berlin, 2015

Frederick Douglass, David W. Blight, 2018

2666, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2008

The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño; translated by Natasha Wimmer, 2007

Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo, 2012

The Passage of Power, Robert Caro, 2012

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon, 2000

Between the World and Me, TaNehisi Coates, 2015

Outline, Rachel Cusk, 2015

The Collected Stories, Lydia Davis, 2010

Evicted, Matthew Desmond 2016

Trust, Hernan Diaz, 2022

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz, 2007

The Copenhagen Trilogy, Tove Ditlevsen; translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman, 2021

The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt, 2000

The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion, 2005

A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan, 2010

Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich, 2001

The Years, Annie Ernaux; translated by Alison L. Strayer, 2018

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002

Erasure, Percival Everett, 2001

The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2005

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2012

The Story of the Lost Child, Elena Ferrante; translated by Ann Goldstein, 2015

Septology, Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls, 2022

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen 2001

Veronica, Mary Gaitskill, 2005

Exit West, Mohsin Hamid, 2017

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman, 2019

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst 2004

Stay True, Hua Hsu, 2022

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005

A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James, 2014


The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin, 2015

Train Dreams, Denis Johnson, 2011

Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson, 2007

All Aunt Hagar’s Children, Edward P. Jones, 2006

The Known World, Edward P. Jones, 2003

An American Marriage, Tayari Jones, 2018

Postwar, Tony Judt, 2005

The Vegetarian, Han Kang; translated by Deborah Smith, 2016

Say Nothing, Patrick Radden Keefe, 2019

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan, 2021

Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver, 2022

The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner, 2013

When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut; translated by Adrian Nathan West, 2021

Heavy, Kiese Laymon, 2018

Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, 2003

Pachinko, Min Jin Lee, 2017

10 : 04, Ben Lerner, 2014

H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald, 2015


The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai, 2018

Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel, 2014

Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel, 2012

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, 2009

The Return, Hisham Matar, 2016

The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006

Atonement, Ian McEwan, 2002

Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor; translated by Sophie Hughes, 2020

Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell 2004

A Mercy, Toni Morrison, 2008

The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2010

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro, 2001

Runaway, Alice Munro, 2004

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson, 2015

The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2015

The Friend, Sigrid Nunez, 2018

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, 2001

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters, 2021

The Overstory, Richard Powers 2018

Citizen, Claudia Rankine 2014

Gilead, Marilynne Robinson, 2004

The Human Stain, Philip Roth, 2000

The Plot Against America, Philip Roth, 2004

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, 2003

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders, 2017

Pastoralia, George Saunders 2000

Tenth of December, George Saunders, 2013

Austerlitz, W.G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell, 2001

How to Be Both, Ali Smith, 2014

On Beauty, Zadie Smith, 2005

White Teeth, Zadie Smith, 2000

Far From the Tree, Andrew Solomon, 2012

Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout, 2008

Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan, 2011

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt, 2013

We the Animals, Justin Torres, 2011

Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward, 2013

Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward 2011

Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 2017

The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead, 2016

The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson, 2010

The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright 2006

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin, 2022

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