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Bookstagram’s 102 Best Books of the 21st Century (U.S.)
by @surabhi.reading @ambershelf @openbookopen
As promised, here’s a post with all 102 of the books you voted as the best books published in the 21st century in the U.S. Titles spill into the comments. Thank you for your voting and your engagement, and stay tuned for more detailed statistics next week!
A few notes on methodology:
* We made a survey inviting bookstagrammers to submit their ballot for the ten best books published in the U.S. in the 21st century. We shared it widely over 4 days.
* We received 324 ballots and a total of 3,156 individual book votes. Not everyone who submitted a ballot submitted ten books.
* We only accepted one ballot from each individual. If a person submitted two different ballots, we only counted the latest submission.
* We used the same rules as the NYT: books published in the U.S. after January 1, 2000. We disqualified books published before that.
* We manually cleaned all submissions to ensure consistency in formatting.
* If someone submitted a series, we counted it as the first book in the series. If the first book was published before January 1, 2000, we disqualified it.
* We disqualified books with errors that made the intended title and author ambiguous.
* We sorted books by total number of votes, then chose to present a top 102 instead of a top 100 to avoid a tiebreaker process.
by @surabhi.reading @ambershelf @openbookopen
As promised, here’s a post with all 102 of the books you voted as the best books published in the 21st century in the U.S. Titles spill into the comments. Thank you for your voting and your engagement, and stay tuned for more detailed statistics next week!
A few notes on methodology:
* We made a survey inviting bookstagrammers to submit their ballot for the ten best books published in the U.S. in the 21st century. We shared it widely over 4 days.
* We received 324 ballots and a total of 3,156 individual book votes. Not everyone who submitted a ballot submitted ten books.
* We only accepted one ballot from each individual. If a person submitted two different ballots, we only counted the latest submission.
* We used the same rules as the NYT: books published in the U.S. after January 1, 2000. We disqualified books published before that.
* We manually cleaned all submissions to ensure consistency in formatting.
* If someone submitted a series, we counted it as the first book in the series. If the first book was published before January 1, 2000, we disqualified it.
* We disqualified books with errors that made the intended title and author ambiguous.
* We sorted books by total number of votes, then chose to present a top 102 instead of a top 100 to avoid a tiebreaker process.
Bookstagram’s 102 Best Books of the 21st Century (U.S.)
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Overview
Bookstagram’s 102 Best Books of the 21st Century (U.S.)
by @surabhi.reading @ambershelf @openbookopen
As promised, here’s a post with all 102 of the books you voted as the best books published in the 21st century in the U.S. Titles spill into the comments. Thank you for your voting and your engagement, and stay tuned for more detailed statistics next week!
A few notes on methodology:
* We made a survey inviting bookstagrammers to submit their ballot for the ten best books published in the U.S. in the 21st century. We shared it widely over 4 days.
* We received 324 ballots and a total of 3,156 individual book votes. Not everyone who submitted a ballot submitted ten books.
* We only accepted one ballot from each individual. If a person submitted two different ballots, we only counted the latest submission.
* We used the same rules as the NYT: books published in the U.S. after January 1, 2000. We disqualified books published before that.
* We manually cleaned all submissions to ensure consistency in formatting.
* If someone submitted a series, we counted it as the first book in the series. If the first book was published before January 1, 2000, we disqualified it.
* We disqualified books with errors that made the intended title and author ambiguous.
* We sorted books by total number of votes, then chose to present a top 102 instead of a top 100 to avoid a tiebreaker process.
by @surabhi.reading @ambershelf @openbookopen
As promised, here’s a post with all 102 of the books you voted as the best books published in the 21st century in the U.S. Titles spill into the comments. Thank you for your voting and your engagement, and stay tuned for more detailed statistics next week!
A few notes on methodology:
* We made a survey inviting bookstagrammers to submit their ballot for the ten best books published in the U.S. in the 21st century. We shared it widely over 4 days.
* We received 324 ballots and a total of 3,156 individual book votes. Not everyone who submitted a ballot submitted ten books.
* We only accepted one ballot from each individual. If a person submitted two different ballots, we only counted the latest submission.
* We used the same rules as the NYT: books published in the U.S. after January 1, 2000. We disqualified books published before that.
* We manually cleaned all submissions to ensure consistency in formatting.
* If someone submitted a series, we counted it as the first book in the series. If the first book was published before January 1, 2000, we disqualified it.
* We disqualified books with errors that made the intended title and author ambiguous.
* We sorted books by total number of votes, then chose to present a top 102 instead of a top 100 to avoid a tiebreaker process.
Challenge Books
![Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCUDE2RkFVPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--54ae2fa6a66734d76c9129003ff4c477df8b7ac9/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/9780385353304.jpeg)
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
12-15 TIE: - Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (2014)
![My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRzY0d0FRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0ef31d27b1563fe827d97508d269af6405ecc936/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/cover_9781609450786__id1467_w600_t1543334997__1x.jpg)
My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
12-15 (tie): Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend (2012)
![Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRkluOHdRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--99aed6ea0fe939fafcf7f816e8eaa9cd9f871afd/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Book-Review.jpg)
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
16. Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (2005)
![Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRUMrS0FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1dcb83df374dbf449a9131f8a61d7fdf1c1e20ef/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Salvage%20the%20Bones.jpg)
Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward
17-18 (tie): Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (2011)
![A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCUHhoQVFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ed7f8012d65537cae356be191bf2c2c3e8847172/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/A%20Little%20Life.jpg)
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
17-18 (tie): Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (2016)
![The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNTZnbVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--ad712ff87bbe198e3b1bd8f9a1c9f120596e35fc/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Warmth%20of%20Other%20Suns-%20The%20Epic%20Story%20of%20America's%20Great%20Migration.jpg)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
19-21 (tie): Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)
![Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCTVhHd3dRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7981637f0950ab7cc2996ff01d7632ff0aca221d/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/31431F2F-EC51-4C90-A77E-2DFE8B794EAE.jpeg)
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
19-21 (tie): Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023)
![Beartown by Fredrik Backman](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCUDdtTWdVPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8a68b5fd8723db85748b3721c14e33c99e79443f/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/IMG_3927.jpeg)
Beartown
Fredrik Backman
19-21 (tie): Fredrik Backman, Beartown (2017)
![Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSUp5Q1FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c587cc7228ede7665352b113c4aa73693cbc809b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Just%20Mercy-%20A%20Story%20of%20Justice%20and%20Redemption.jpg)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Bryan Stevenson
22. Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy (2014)
![Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSE4rOHdRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--27d1ce57cf9229808c71e2bde261ed2f2d79e3fc/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBPZ2h3Ym1jNkZISmxjMmw2WlY5MGIxOXNhVzFwZEZzSGFRSXNBV2tDOUFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoidmFyaWF0aW9uIn19--ffee2b9d9a990f55fcf5b19de254ade57755bb24/s-l1200.webp)
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
23-24 (tie): Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead (2022)