100 best books of the 21st century, summarised in one sentence each

did you also take a look at the ‪@nytimes‬ 100 best books of the 21st century list and recognise barely any of them? join the club! in this video I describe every single in just one sentence each - so if you’re looking to get a quick idea of what these acclaimed books are about, this is the video for you! new york times' list: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2... (full list also below!) new york times' list (readers' pick): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2... 💬 let’s yap: what did you think about the books on the list - expect others to be there? share them in the comments below! and don’t forget to like and subscribe 🫡 💌 contact me: instagram: @katerina_reem   / katerina_reem   goodreads: katerina reem   / katerina-reem   email: [email protected] 💘 timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 00:38 - Summaries 42:04 - Thoughts 42:53 - Outro 📖 books mentioned: 100 Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson 99 How to Be Both by Ali Smith 98 Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 97 Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward 96 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman 95 Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 94 On Beauty by Zadie Smith 93 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 92 The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante 91 The Human Stain by Philip Roth 90 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen 89 The Return by Hisham Matar 88 The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis 87 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 86 Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight 85 Pastoralia by George Saunders 84 The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee 83 When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut 82 Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor 81 Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan 80 The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante 79 A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin 78 Septology by Jon Fosse 77 An American Marriage by Tayari Jones 76 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin 75 Exit West by Mohsin Hamid 74 Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 73 The Passage of Power by Robert Caro 72 Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich 71 The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen 70 All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones 69 The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 68 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez 67 Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon 66 We the Animals by Justin Torres 65 The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 64 The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai 63 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill 62 10:04 by Ben Lerner 61 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver 60 Heavy by Kiese Laymon 59 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 58 Stay True by Hua Hsu 57 Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 56 The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner 55 The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright 54 Tenth of December by George Saunders 53 Runaway by Alice Munro 52 Train Dreams by Denis Johnson 51 Life After Life by Kate Atkinson 50 Trust by Hernan Diaz 49 The Vegetarian by Han Kang 48 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi 47 A Mercy by Toni Morrison 46 The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt 45 The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson 44 The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin 43 Postwar by Tony Judt 42 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James 41 Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan 40 H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 39 A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 38 The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño 37 The Years by Annie Ernaux 36 Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 35 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel 34 Citizen by Claudia Rankine 33 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward 32 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst 31 White Teeth by Zadie Smith 30 Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward 29 The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 28 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell 27 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 26 Atonement by Ian McEwan 25 Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 24 The Overstory by Richard Powers 23 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro 22 Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo 21 Evicted by Matthew Desmond 20 Erasure by Percival Everett 19 Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe 18 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders 17 The Sellout by Paul Beatty 16 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 15 Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 14 Outline by Rachel Cusk 13 The Road by Cormac McCarthy 12 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 11 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 10 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 9 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 8 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald 7 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 6 2666 by Roberto Bolaño 5 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 4 The Known World by Edward P. Jones 3 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 2 The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 1 My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante music: chillpeach - breakfast:    • [no copyright music] 'Breakfast' lofi back...   subs: 4.1k angels 💫