Following Up On The New Times' 100 Best 21st Century Novels

 The New York Time's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Nathan Bransford has Who did the NY Times list miss?

The Washington Post published Which books should be considered classics? Our readers have . I disagree about Moby Dick (but I liked the factual chapters) and Ulysses. I am 50-50 on The Great Gatsby (I think Fitzgerald, like Hemingway, is better at short stories), but do not mind the sordid characters (I am also not sure if it is his best novel). Furthermore, I would add Lolita and Confederacy of Dunces (the characters were annoying), too. I am glad to see that they want to The USA Trilogy.

Literary Hub published On the Making of That New York Times Best Books of the Century List and What the New York Times Missed: 71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century. The first explains the methodology, and of the second I have read only the following:

1. Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude (2003)
2. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (2003)
3. David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster (2005)
4. Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife (2011)
5. Karl Ove Knausgaard, tr. Don Bartlett, My Struggle: Book 1 (2012)
6. Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2013)

I do not see a book there I did not like - the Wallace collection of essays I liked much better than Infinite Jest. There were authors I have read but not the book selected: Deborah Levy, Tommy Orange, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jeff VanderMeer, Tana French, and Haruki Murakami. All are writers I think are worth reading.

From 2019 is The Guardian's The 100 best books of the 21st century

From 2018: Vulture's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)

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