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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
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
34-39 (tie): Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
![All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSVM2S0FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8197f9067fb5b472e33dde74bd2085d86a8ca68e/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/18143977.jpg)
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
34-39 (tie): Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
34-39 (tie): Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America (2021)
![They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRUc3ckFRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--7cc9de800f3d85bd7286c348821f276c5eef1707/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/They%20Can't%20Kill%20Us%20Until%20They%20Kill%20Us.jpg)
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
40-47 (tie) Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us (2017)
![The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCTzV0T1FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--60c40c326f5f6b7a783408b7daa990301f4dbb6d/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/9781524760786.jpg)
The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne
40-47 (tie) John Boyne, The Heart’s Invisible Furies (2017)
![The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCRXZueUFRPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--880f29cbc14a0911be3b8dc6f14bfc39f295fb83/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/%7B4AF9FB8F-C973-4800-AFB0-A2D4A3E60D60%7DImg100.jpg)
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
40-47 (tie) Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
![The Book Thief by Markus Zusak](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCQ1o5SndFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--3eeec7dc557d57bfa333f10cd547501171b2bedb/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Book%20Thief.jpg)
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
40-47 (tie) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (2006)
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
40-47 (tie) Matthew Desmond, Evicted (2016)
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
40-47 (tie) Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain (2021)
![A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBOFpsVnc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e13fa2c3d99ec20b9805489540d5fb30edbd8d6e/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/A%20Tale%20for%20the%20Time%20Being.jpg)
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
40-47 (tie) Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (2013)
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The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
48-55 (tie) Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half (2020)