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Truelit’s 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century

A list curated by the members of the subreddit r/truelit through community voting.

#1

2666

2004 • 320 Readers • 898 pages 3.9

#2

The Neapolitan Novels

2015 • 11 Readers • 1,705 pages 4

#3

My Struggle: Book One

2009 • 68 Readers • 430 pages 4.2

#4

Solenoid

2015 • 77 Readers • 840 pages 3.9

#5

Septology

2022 • 19 Readers • 825 pages 4.8

#6

Lincoln in the Bardo

2017 • 434 Readers 3.9

#7

Austerlitz

2001 • 87 Readers • 265 pages 4.4

#8

The Sellout

2015 • 220 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

#9

The Road

2006 • 1,625 Readers • 287 pages 4

#10

Against the Day

2006 • 70 Readers • 1,085 pages 4.3

#11

Never Let Me Go

2000 • 1,502 Readers • 282 pages 3.8

#12

Hurricane Season

2017 • 129 Readers • 224 pages 4.2

#13

Cloud Atlas

2003 • 908 Readers • 509 pages 3.9

#15

Gilead

2004 • 242 Readers • 289 pages 4.1

#16

White Teeth

2001 • 305 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

#17

The Last Samurai

2000 • 99 Readers • 484 pages 4.5

#18

The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

2022 • 3 Readers • 608 pages 5

#19

The Goldfinch

2013 • 1,079 Readers • 1,006 pages 4

#20

The Corrections

2001 • 272 Readers • 662 pages 3.9

#21

The Pale King

2011 • 95 Readers • 550 pages 3.7

#22

Flights

2007 • 115 Readers • 416 pages 3.6

#23

Piranesi

2019 • 2,030 Readers • 273 pages 4.2

#24

The Years

2008 • 67 Readers • 256 pages 4.5

#25

Kafka on the Shore

2001 • 1,139 Readers • 468 pages 3.9

#27

House of Leaves

1999 • 1,202 Readers • 709 pages 4.1

#28

Seiobo There Below

2008 • 13 Readers • 464 pages 4

#29

#30

Inherent Vice

2009 • 154 Readers • 369 pages 3.8

#31

A Brief History of Seven Killings

2014 • 179 Readers • 688 pages 4.1

#32

Ducks, Newburyport

2019 • 86 Readers • 1,020 pages 3.8

#33

No Country for Old Men

2005 • 492 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

#34

Freedom

2010 • 156 Readers • 562 pages 3.9

#35

Outline

2014 • 216 Readers • 249 pages 3.7

#36

Trieste

2007 • 7 Readers • 432 pages 4

#37

Small Things Like These

2020 • 489 Readers • 118 pages 4.2

#38

The Maniac

2023 • 76 Readers • 298 pages 4.3

#41

Milkman

12 • 164 Readers • 352 pages 3.8

#42

Atonement

2001 • 545 Readers • 144 pages 3.9

#43

The Netanyahus

2021 • 50 Readers • 248 pages 4.3

#44

Wizard of the Crow

2004 • 48 Readers • 786 pages 4.4

#45

Pachinko

2017 • 1,023 Readers • 496 pages 4.3

#46

Station Eleven

2014 • 1,588 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

#47

Tyll

2017 • 57 Readers • 364 pages 3.8

#49

Train Dreams

2002 • 115 Readers • 116 pages 4

#50

The Vegetarian

2007 • 575 Readers • 200 pages 3.5

#51

Nox

2010 • 22 Readers • 1 page 3.4

#52

Oblivion: Stories

2004 • 50 Readers • 329 pages 3.8

#53

Erasure

2001 • 115 Readers • 320 pages 4.5

#54

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

2004 • 1,073 Readers • 1,028 pages 4

#55

Tenth of December

2012 • 221 Readers • 272 pages 4

#57

A Naked Singularity

2008 • 23 Readers • 689 pages 4.5

#58

The Nickel Boys

2019 • 419 Readers • 224 pages 4.2

#59

Foster

2010 • 204 Readers • 98 pages 4.4

#60

Annihilation

2014 • 1,315 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

#61

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 742 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

#62

The Idiot

2017 • 308 Readers • 434 pages 3.7

#63

Belladonna

2012 • 8 Readers • 398 pages

#64

Convenience Store Woman

2016 • 864 Readers • 3h 21m 3.7

#65

The Underground Railroad

2016 • 659 Readers • 306 pages 4.1

#66

Brothers

2005 • 10 Readers • 641 pages 5

#67

Her Body And Other Parties

2017 • 481 Readers • 245 pages 3.8

#68

The Prague Cemetery

2010 • 52 Readers • 576 pages 3.6

#69

Animal Money

2015 • 12 Readers • 780 pages 4

#70

Detransition, Baby

2021 • 305 Readers • 320 pages 3.9

#71

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

2019 • 861 Readers • 242 pages 4

#72

#73

By Night in Chile

2000 • 40 Readers • 129 pages 3.9

#75

Happening

2000 • 44 Readers • 66 pages 4.3

#76

Border Districts

2017 • 5 Readers • 145 pages

#77

Demon Copperhead

2022 • 750 Readers • 560 pages 4.4

#78

The Sympathizer

2015 • 389 Readers • 384 pages 4

#79

Bleeding Edge

2013 • 84 Readers • 477 pages 3.7

#80

The Human Stain

2001 • 7 Readers • 386 pages

#81

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

2007 • 410 Readers • 360 pages 3.8

#82

Americanah

2013 • 567 Readers • 608 pages 4.2

#83

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

2018 • 846 Readers • 306 pages 3.8

#84

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

2016 • 331 Readers • 434 pages 4.6

#85

Seeing

2004 • 32 Readers • 322 pages 3.9

#86

Zone

2008 • 11 Readers • 528 pages

#87

Submission

2015 • 19 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

#88

HHhH

2010 • 27 Readers • 384 pages 4.5

#89

Minor Detail

2017 • 145 Readers • 109 pages 4.4

#90

The Instructions

2010 • 35 Readers • 1,057 pages 4.8

#91

The Adversary

2000 • 25 Readers • 191 pages 4.2

#92

Tomb of Sand

2018 • 49 Readers • 18h 21m 2.9

#93

Cannonball

2013 • 6 Readers • 312 pages

#94

#95

My Work

2023 • 7 Readers • 390 pages

#96

Tram 83

2014 • 14 Readers • 224 pages 4

#97

The Flamethrowers

2013 • 58 Readers • 432 pages 3.4

#98

Heaven

2009 • 270 Readers • 192 pages 3.7

#99

Trilogy

2022 • 10 Readers • 153 pages

#100

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

2009 • 223 Readers • 81 pages 4