Here’s a list of 100 notable books from the 21st century that have made significant cultural, literary, or social impacts:
### Fiction
1. **"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy**
2. **"Atonement" by Ian McEwan**
3. **"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon**
4. **"2666" by Roberto Bolaño**
5. **"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides**
6. **"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz**
7. **"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini**
8. **"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt**
9. **"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro**
10. **"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern**
11. **"Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson**
12. **"The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead**
13. **"A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara**
14. **"The Overstory" by Richard Powers**
15. **"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens**
16. **"An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones**
17. **"The Testaments" by Margaret Atwood**
18. **"Normal People" by Sally Rooney**
19. **"Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel**
20. **"Circe" by Madeline Miller**
### Non-Fiction
21. **"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari**
22. **"Educated" by Tara Westover**
23. **"Becoming" by Michelle Obama**
24. **"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot**
25. **"Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah**
26. **"Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson**
27. **"The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel van der Kolk**
28. **"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain**
29. **"The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson**
30. **"The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls**
31. **"Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup" by John Carreyrou**
32. **"How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi**
33. **"Hillbilly Elegy" by J.D. Vance**
34. **"The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson**
35. **"Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall**
36. **"The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin**
37. **"Daring Greatly" by Brené Brown**
38. **"The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander**
39. **"The Elements of Style" by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White (Updated Edition)**
40. **"Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner**
### Fantasy & Science Fiction
41. **"The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss**
42. **"The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch**
43. **"The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin**
44. **"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
45. **"Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson**
46. **"The Bone Clocks" by David Mitchell**
47. **"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern**
48. **"Red Rising" by Pierce Brown**
49. **"Dune" by Frank Herbert (Updated Edition)**
50. **"The Poppy War" by R.F. Kuang**
### Young Adult
51. **"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins**
52. **"The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green**
53. **"Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell**
54. **"The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas**
55. **"Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo**
56. **"Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher**
57. **"Cinder" by Marissa Meyer**
58. **"The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky**
59. **"Divergent" by Veronica Roth**
60. **"They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera**
### Poetry
61. **"The Sun and Her Flowers" by Rupi Kaur**
62. **"The Carrying" by Ada Limón**
63. **"The Poet X" by Elizabeth Acevedo**
64. **"Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur**
65. **"Ariel" by Sylvia Plath (Updated Edition)**
### Short Stories
66. **"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri**
67. **"Tenth of December" by George Saunders**
68. **"The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" by Ken Liu**
69. **"Dubliners" by James Joyce (Updated Edition)**
70. **"The Thing Around Your Neck" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
### Graphic Novels & Comics
71. **"Maus" by Art Spiegelman**
72. **"Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi**
73. **"Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel**
74. **"Sandman" by Neil Gaiman (Updated Edition)**
75. **"Saga" by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples**
### Classics Revisited
76. **"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy (Pulitzer Prize Winner)**
77. **"Beloved" by Toni Morrison (Updated Edition)**
78. **"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen**
79. **"White Teeth" by Zadie Smith**
80. **"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon**
### Contemporary Classics
81. **"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz**
82. **"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon**
83. **"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón**
84. **"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy**
85. **"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern**
### Miscellaneous
86. **"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson**
87. **"The Secret History" by Donna Tartt**
88. **"Crazy Rich Asians" by Kevin Kwan**
89. **"Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty**
90. **"The 5th Wave" by Rick Yancey**
### Regional & Cultural Perspectives
91. **"The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak**
92. **"The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini**
93. **"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe (Updated Edition)**
94. **"Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**
95. **"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Díaz**
### Award-Winning
96. **"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)**
97. **"The Sellout" by Paul Beatty (Man Booker Prize Winner)**
98. **"Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout (Pulitzer Prize Winner)**
99. **"The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah**
100. **"Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders (Man Booker Prize Winner)**
This list is a mix of genres and styles, reflecting the diverse literary landscape of the 21st century. It includes celebrated classics, contemporary works, and influential non-fiction.
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