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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
![The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSGplTHdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1050d66ae5e301d49bfdd0385544eb07e65d0b39/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/y648-3.jpg)
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
48-55 (tie) Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (2017)
![Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBeUxqZFE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8bbb3ba70cb86a237a2b088865f40e8ebc67b9dd/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Say%20Nothing-%20A%20True%20Story%20of%20Murder%20and%20Memory%20in%20Northern%20Ireland.jpg)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
48-55 (tie) Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing (2019)
![Minor Detail by Adania Shibli](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSHJnTFFVPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b752abc2d65d9c3c68b32fc6653cbf43d8c41900/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJY0c1bkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--12df03affcecc6543dceea60ea959b5d6cdd6528/image_2024-08-18_230129986.png)
Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
48-55 (tie) Adania Shibli (trans. Elisabeth Jaquette), Minor Detail (2020)
![How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCS2g0TmdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6fe11487c6a35d6f7a2947908af6cb8d6cca994f/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/37CD0DB3-CEB4-4165-A2B1-1C0A59D7EEE1.jpeg)
How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia Nagamatsu
48-55 (tie) Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark (2023)
![A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMnNpUHc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--5062df09cde993bb46a1f7923bc013bc77e40487/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/A%20Thousand%20Splendid%20Suns.jpg)
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
48-55 (tie) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
![When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCQ1JLQ1FFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a44b49e40583b1c62858199313d94d2f3f82ab33/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/When%20Breath%20Becomes%20Air.jpg)
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
56-63 (tie) Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air (2016)
![Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCSGZDRGdFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--3c0560ebc4aa7e9a177625121c0c89e8778f64fc/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Transcendent%20Kingdom.jpg)
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
56-63 (tie) Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom (2020)
![The Sentence by Louise Erdrich](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCQzN5TVFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--117d418349600e56f42e7b2a2fdd2a8210a1e5fe/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lKYW5CbFp3WTZCa1ZVT2hSeVpYTnBlbVZmZEc5ZmJHbHRhWFJiQjJrQ0xBRnBBdlFCIiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--a407a8984e02ea5e4cde4660f7d52dadd4273f50/y648.jpeg)
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
56-63 (tie) Louise Erdrich, The Sentence (2021)
![The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBCTFZ4TEFFPSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1725e6bf877dccee5d6fd5f478af1e31e312c8d6/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Kite%20Runner.jpg)
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
56-63 (tie) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (2003)
![How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNW9Oanc9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--57027546f19577afe1f73c1653c8076301d7d247/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/How%20to%20Write%20an%20Autobiographical%20Novel-%20Essays.jpg)
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
56-63 (tie) Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel (2018)