#list order and contents subject to my personal enjoyment level and recency bias

[cuntrytaylor]

ok i made my own list of the best books of the 21st century so far based on the nyt list here are my top 25:

this is how you lose the time war by amal el mohtar and max gladstone

house of leaves by mark l danielewski

the idiot by elif batuman

a little life by hanya yanigahara

the year of magical thinking by joan didion

the hunger games by suzanne collins

how to be both by ali smith

in the dream house by carmen maria machado

pure colour by sheila heti

heavy by kiese laymon

crying in h mart by michelle zauner

the goldfinch by donna tartt

decreation by anne carson

never let me go by kazuo ishiguro

where reasons end by yiyun li

white girls by hilton als

gone girl by gillian flynn

half of a yellow sun by chimamanda ngozi adichie

on earth we're briefly gorgeous by ocean vuong

know my name by chanel miller

slave play by jeremy o harris

all the light we cannot see by anthony doerr

in memory of memory by maria stepanova

they can't kill us until they kill us by hanif abdurraqib

tender is the flesh by agustina bazterrica