The list in real live newsprint rather than online!
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The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History | 
The list in real live newsprint rather than online!
NYTBR came out with their Readers Choice list of the 100 best books of the 21st century, and this feels much more in line with what books people actually read. I have a problem with calling a list “the best” when it includes so many obscure selections (how can they be the best when hardly anyone has read them outside academia/publishing?). The original list I only had read 9 from, but this list I have read 53/100! Just in the top ten I‘ve read 7!
Very surprised by the selection of books in this list. First, why are we already canonizing the best books of the 21st century after only 25 years? Second, I get that the NYTBR is very high brow compared to the taste of the average reader, but I was still confused by the not insignificant number of books in translation that were originally published prior to 2000, but translated after.
Plus, The Goldfinch was ranked way too low in my opinion!
Some puzzling omissions on this list but these always spur some good discussions! now to take a look at my tbr and figure out what to prioritize-out of the 34 I want to read-I always want to read the latest buzzy titles tho.
Apparently I‘m better at buying the books than I am at reading them!
In case you can‘t read the covers:
The Corrections
The Overstory
Atonement
Americanah
White Teeth
H is for Hawk
Demon Copperhead
An American Marriage
Station Eleven
Bel Canto
Which one do I need to read first?
#100bestbooksofthe21stcentury #tbr
Here‘s my list of books I‘ve read, although I included a few bailed on. Thanks to @Bookwomble for making this accessible! Like others, I was not into number one at all and didn‘t even finish it.
My TBR from #NYTBest100: about 12 are available in audio in my library and weren‘t already on my list.
After I read through the 100 books again, I chose 29 I may want to read at some point. A few I already own. #TBR #NYTinesBookReview
I‘ve read 20 of these and didn‘t care for two of them (The Goldfinch and The Plot Against America). There are also several on the complete list that I have no interest in reading.
Modern Mrs. Darcy‘s gift link: https://modernmrsdarcy.com/links-i-love-461/
And here‘s my TBR from the #NYTBest100 list! I just postponed a library hold for Demon Copperhead, and eight others are on my shelves already—maybe I‘ll get to those sooner, maybe not 😆
I was eyeing these #NYTBest100 posts with envy yesterday, sad because the list was paywalled—thank you to all those who posted the tip for a gift link via Modern Mrs. Darcy!
Some of these I loved, some not so much—but I do love a good list, whether I agree with the choices or not. This was unsurprisingly focused on lit fic, but it was nice to see Fifth Season and some graphic novels make the list as well.
Not bad, but some of these I hated 😂 so many are on my TBR shelf. Weird only wolf hall is splayed.
Thanks @Bookwomble for helping me find the link.
I‘ll put a link in the comments so you can play too! #nytbest100 #nybest100
I'm not surprised that I've only read 12 of the NYT's best 100 books of the 21st century, and that a few more of them I DNFed. There were plenty of titles there I have deliberately not picked up. I think the diversity of this list would have been improved by only including one book per author.
The only ones here I'd include in my personal list of the best books of the 21st century would be The Fifth Season, Detransition, Baby, and Fun Home.
Two of these are among my all-time favorites, and one is among my all-time NOT favorites.
I recognize many of the books on the list as “usual suspects” that I‘ve seen on similar lists, and I used to take that kind of list and swallow it whole. Now I‘m more intentional about what I add to my TBR list. All that is to say that 6 of these are there. I might add more after checking out some that are new to me.
Meanwhile, I have DNF‘d 5. 😎
NYT List of the The100Best Books of the 21st Century is out!
I love a book list. Lots of thoughts on this one. It is strange to me that there are so many authors with multiple books, while genres like Sci-Fi and romance were mostly ignored.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?auth...
My very small dent in a very large list #NYTtop100
My husband sent this list to me. I have read 20 out of the 100 books listed. It‘s a start! #newyorktimesbookreview #top100
It‘s Sunday.Sometimes I treat myself!
Oh go on then.
Sarraute was born Natacha Tserniak in tsarist Russia to assimilated, upwardly mobile Jewish parents who spoke Russian and French, not Yiddish. Her father, Ilya, a loving figure of stability in her life, was a chemist who owned a dye factory in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, northeast of Moscow, This was an industrial area that saw some of the first workers‘ strikes... Living in Paris years later, Ilya played chess with Lenin and Trotsky in the Café du Lion.
I‘m going to attempt the full #NYTtopten2022
Several of these were already on my radar or on hold.
Just listened to Rachel Avis‘s Strangers to Ourselves and it was great! May make my top of the year list as well.
This is James Baldwin, reviewing Langston Hughes in *1956*. Plus ça change, plus c‘est la même chose.
My second #bookspin book, a library book. I checked this out on a whim and read it in bits. It's a pretty interesting historical record. I especially enjoyed the reviews of all the “trashy“ books and writers, like Jackie Collins, because the reviewers wrote with such relish.
