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NEW YORK TIMES : 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

100 best books of the 21st century : full list

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Call Number: E185.6 W652wa
ISBN: 9780679444329
Publication Date: 2010-09-07
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Call Number: PS3560 J714kn
ISBN: 9780060557546
Publication Date: 2003-08-14
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Call Number: PS3573 .W587un
ISBN: 9780345804327
Publication Date: 2018-01-30
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: PR6059 .Is3n
ISBN: 9781400078776
Publication Date: 2006-03-14
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Call Number: PS3568 R564gi
ISBN: 9780374602109
Publication Date: 2020-08-04
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Junot Díaz
Call Number: PS3554 D543br
ISBN: 9781594483295
Publication Date: 2008-09-02
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Call Number: PS3554 .D562y
ISBN: 9780307386410
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Call Number: PS3563 M127ro
ISBN: 9780307387899
Publication Date: 2007-03-28
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Call Number: PS3553 .C342am
ISBN: 9780679450047
Publication Date: 2000-09-19
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Call Number: PS3566 .P874ov
ISBN: 9780393356687
Publication Date: 2019-04-02
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Call Number: PR9387.9 .Ad45am
ISBN: 9780307271082
Publication Date: 2013-05-14
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Call Number: PR6063 M6925cℓ
ISBN: 9780375507250
Publication Date: 2004-08-17
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Call Number: PR6069 Sm68wh
ISBN: 9780375703867
Publication Date: 2001-06-12
Citizen by Claudia Rankine
Call Number: PS3568 .R167 AAci
ISBN: 9781555976903
Publication Date: 2014-10-07
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (Illustrator)
Call Number: PN6727 .B387fu
ISBN: 9780618477944
Publication Date: 2006-06-08
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Call Number: E185 .C632be
ISBN: 9780812993547
Publication Date: 2015-07-14
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Call Number: PS3555 Eg13vi
ISBN: 9780307477477
Publication Date: 2011-03-22
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Call Number: PS3570 T179go
ISBN: 9780316055444
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 M8345me
ISBN: 9780307264237
Publication Date: 2008-11-11
The Vegetarian by Han Kang; Deborah Smith (Translator)
Call Number: PL992.26 H19ch
ISBN: 9781101906118
Publication Date: 2016-08-23
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Call Number: PS3604 .D5428tr
ISBN: 9780593420317
Publication Date: 2022-05-03
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Call Number: PS3555 .Eu44mi
ISBN: 9780312427733
Publication Date: 2007-06-05
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Call Number: PS3561 K617de
ISBN: 9780063251984
Publication Date: 2024-08-27
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi; Anjali Singh (Translator)
Call Number: PN6747 .Sa83p
ISBN: 9780375714832
Publication Date: 2007-10-30
The plot against America by Philip Roth
Call Number: PS3568.R742 AA M617f
ISBN: 9781598531985
Publication Date: 2013-02-07
Far from the Tree by Andrew Solomon
Call Number: HV888.5 So47fa
ISBN: 9780743236713
Publication Date: 2012-11-13
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander; Cornel West (Introduction by)
Call Number: HV9950 .Aℓ27ne
ISBN: 9781595586438
Publication Date: 2012-01-16
Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexiévich
Call Number: DK510.76 .Aℓ25vr
ISBN: 9780399588808
Publication Date: 2016-05-24
The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Call Number: E847.J634 C22ye
ISBN: 9780679405078
Publication Date: 2012-05-01
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Call Number: PS3569 St89oℓ
ISBN: 9781400062089
Publication Date: 2008-03-25
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
Call Number: E449.D75 B618fr
ISBN: 9781416590316
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Call Number: PS3614 N4995sy
ISBN: 9780802123459
Publication Date: 2015-04-07
The Human Stain by Philip Roth; Ross Miller (Editor)
Call Number: PS3568 .R742am
ISBN: 9781598531039
Publication Date: 2011-09-29
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Call Number: PS3566 P271be
ISBN: 9780060838720
Publication Date: 2023-02-07

JUILLIARD LIBRARY : 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE RECOMMENDATIONS

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Call Number: PS3551 An43ik
ISBN: 0394429869
Publication Date: 1970-01-12
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9780547345666
Publication Date: 1986-02-17
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552 .B193 AAfi
ISBN: 9781101908471
Publication Date: 2024-07-09
The Stranger by Albert Camus; Matthew Ward (Translator); Keith Gore (Introduction by)
Call Number: PQ2605 .C159s
ISBN: 0679420266
Publication Date: 1993-02-23
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Call Number: HV6533 C173i
ISBN: 0679745580
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
U. S. A. by John Dos Passos
Call Number: PS3507 .D74u
ISBN: 9781883011147
Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3555 Eℓ59i 1992
ISBN: 0679600159
Publication Date: 1992-09-05
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Call Number: PS3511 .F576g B726
ISBN: 9781101908297
Publication Date: 2021-01-05
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Call Number: D810 J4 F851 1952
ISBN: 9783596511495
Publication Date: 1978-04-12
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .G166ci
ISBN: 9780060883287
Publication Date: 2006-02-21
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: PS3515 H373fo
ISBN: 9780684803357
Publication Date: 1995-07-01
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James; Robert Kimbrough (Editor)
Call Number: PS2116 T849 1966
ISBN: 0393096696
Publication Date: 1966-10-01
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Call Number: PT2625 .M316za
ISBN: 9780679772873
Publication Date: 1996-10-01
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Call Number: PS3563 .M8345so 1996
ISBN: 9780394497846
Publication Date: 1977-08-12
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Call Number: PR9369.3 P274cr
ISBN: 9780743262170
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; Arthur Wesley Wheen (Translator)
Call Number: PZ3 R281im
ISBN: 9780449213940
Publication Date: 1987-03-12
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537 .St34g
ISBN: 9780140281620
Publication Date: 1999-02-01
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: PS3573 .W151co
ISBN: 9780521403979
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Call Number: PS3545.W555 AAn Au22
ISBN: 9781421897370
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; Eudora Welty (Foreword by)
Call Number: PR6045 .W883t 1981
ISBN: 9780151907366
Publication Date: 1981-11-01
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: PS3545 W935 A 1991
ISBN: 9780060837563
Publication Date: 2023-01-10

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