Reacting to the follow up NY Times' Readers picks of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century discussing what I've read & what I want to read. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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The NY Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century according to critics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxG6HxuF14
Readers pick The NYTimes 100 Best Books of the 21st Century list: https://archive.is/Wk8aM
My full reviews of some of these books:
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2015/10/14/a-little-life-by-hanya-yanagihara
Reacting to the stage production of A Little Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr-ZMzvetv0
James by Percival Everett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6CCN6S-fnE
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqf2XM3P9Sc
The Overstory by Richard Powers
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2018/10/2/the-overstory-by-richard-powers
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/2/28/wolf-hall-by-hilary-mantel
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/1/15/homegoing-by-yaa-gyasi
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/4/27/hamnet-by-maggie-ofarrell
Normal People by Sally Rooney
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2018/9/16/normal-people-by-sally-rooney
Circe by Madeline Miller
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2018/8/3/circe-by-madeline-miller
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2016/11/10/the-underground-railroad-by-colson-whitehead
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/8/2/the-nickel-boys-by-colson-whitehead
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/3/2/lincoln-in-the-bardo-by-george-saunders
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/12/22/sing-unburied-sing-by-jesmyn-ward
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8BpvWg2bAs
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/11/29/caste-by-isabel-wilkerson
North Woods by Daniel Mason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OUngX1wMqs
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2013/10/29/the-goldfinch-by-donna-tartt
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/10/6/the-dutch-house-by-ann-patchett
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBhI09bnhMI
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/1/5/piranesi-by-susanna-clarke
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/8/8/girl-woman-other-by-bernadine-evaristo
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0RG8046mzI
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/12/5/station-eleven-by-emily-st-john-mandel
Trust by Hernan Diaz
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/12/14/trust-by-hernan-diaz
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2018/9/26/my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation-by-ottessa-moshfegh
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/8/9/shuggie-bain-by-douglas-stuart
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/1/12/in-the-dream-house-by-carmen-maria-machado
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/3/12/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead-by-olga-tokarczuk-translated-by-antonia-lloyd-jones
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/11/2/demon-copperhead-by-barbara-kingsolver
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2020/6/10/the-vanishing-half-by-brit-bennett
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/8/18/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-by-gabrielle-zevin
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