The 100 best books of the 21st century by The Guardian

Given by The Guardian

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Wolf Hall : roman (2009) af Hilary Mantel
1
Gilead (2004) af Marilynne Robinson
2
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (2013) af Svetlana Alexievich
3
Never Let Me Go (2005) af Kazuo Ishiguro
4
Austerlitz (2001) af W. G. Sebald
5
Ravkikkerten (2000) af Philip Pullman
6
Between the World and Me (2015) af Ta-Nehisi Coates
7
Autumn (2016) af Ali Smith
8
Skyatlas (2004) af David Mitchell
9
En halv gul sol (2006) af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10
Min geniale veninde : barndom, tidlig ungdom (2011) af Elena Ferrante
11
Komplottet mod Amerika (2004) af Philip Roth
12
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) af Barbara Ehrenreich
13
Rænkespil (2002) af Sarah Waters
14
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) af Elizabeth Kolbert
15
Korrektioner (2001) af Jonathan Franzen
16
Vejen : roman (2006) af Cormac McCarthy
17
Chokdoktrinen (2007) af Naomi Klein
18
Den mystiske sag om hunden i natten : roman (2003) af Mark Haddon
19
Life After Life (2013) af Kate Atkinson
20
Sapiens : en kort historie om menneskeheden (2011) af Yuval Noah Harari
21
Tenth of December: Stories (2013) af George Saunders
22
Helvedes malstrøm : en bog om depressionens anatomi (2001) af Andrew Solomon
23
Tæskeholdet banker på (2010) af Jennifer Egan
24
Normal People (2018) af Sally Rooney
25
Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede (2013) af Thomas Piketty
26
Fjendskab, venskab, ægteskab : noveller (1986) af Alice Munro
27
Rapture (2005) af Carol Ann Duffy
28
Min kamp : roman (2009) af Karl Ove Knausgård
29
The Underground Railroad (2016) af Colson Whitehead
30
The Argonauts (2015) af Maggie Nelson
31
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) af Siddhartha Mukherjee
32
Bedemandens datter : en tragikomisk familiehistorie (2006) af Alison Bechdel
33
Outline (2014) af Rachel Cusk
34
Haren med de ravgule øjne (2010) af Edmund De Waal
35
Experience (2000) af Martin Amis
36
The Green Road (2015) af Anne Enright
37
I skønhedens tjeneste : roman (2004) af Alan Hollinghurst
38
Hvide tænder : roman (2000) af Zadie Smith
39
Et år med magisk tænkning (2005) af Joan Didion
40
Soning (2001) af Ian McEwan
41
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) af Michael Lewis
42
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) af Claudia Rankine
43
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (2004) af Rebecca Solnit
44
Vejen op, vejen ned (2013) af Julian Barnes
45
Human Chain (2010) af Seamus Heaney
46
The Complete Persepolis (2001) af Marjane Satrapi
47
Night Watch (2002) af Terry Pratchett
48
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (2011) af Jeanette Winterson
49
Oryx and Crake (2003) af Margaret Atwood
50
Brooklyn (2009) af Colm Tóibín
51
En lille ø (2004) af Andrea Levy
52
Den sande historie om Kelly-banden (2000) af Peter Carey
53
Women & Power: A Manifesto (2017) af Mary Beard
54
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (2006) af Michael Pollan
55
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (2019) af Robert Macfarlane
56
Den utrolige historie om Kavalier & Clay (2000) af Michael Chabon
57
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (2005) af Tony Judt
58
The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos (2001) af Anne Carson
59
Dart (2002) af Alice Oswald
60
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial (2015) af Helen Garner
61
Mother's Milk (2006) af Edward St. Aubyn
62
Henrietta Lacks' udødelige liv (2010) af Rebecca Skloot
63
Om at skrive : en forfatters erindringsbog om håndværket (2000) af Stephen King
64
Kvinden der forsvandt (2012) af Gillian Flynn
65
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015) af Carlo Rovelli
66
The Silence of the Girls (2018) af Pat Barker
67
Den standhaftige gartner : roman (2001) af John le Carré
68
Forelskelser (2011) af Javier Marías
69
Notes on a Scandal (2003) af Zoë Heller
70
Jimmy Corrigan : den klogeste dreng i verden (2000) af Chris Ware
71
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019) af Shoshana Zuboff
72
I ly af mørket : nordkoreanske skæbner (2009) af Barbara Demick
73
Days without End (2016) af Sebastian Barry
74
Kør din plov over de dødes knogler (2009) af Olga Tokarczuk
75
At tænke - hurtigt og langsomt (2011) af Daniel Kahneman
76
Signs Preceding the End of the World (2009) af Yuri Herrera
77
The Fifth Season (2015) af N. K. Jemisin
78
Lighed (2009) af Richard Wilkinson
79
Stories of Your Life and Others (2002) af Ted Chiang
80
Harvest (2013) af Jim Crace
81
Coraline (2002) af Neil Gaiman
82
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions (2017) af Valeria Luiselli
83
The Cost of Living (2018) af Deborah Levy
84
The God Delusion (2006) af Richard Dawkins
85
Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment (2017) af Yanis Varoufakis
86
Priestdaddy: A Memoir (2017) af Patricia Lockwood
87
Noughts and Crosses (2001) af Malorie Blackman
88
Bad Blood: A Memoir (2001) af Lorna Sage
89
Light (2002) af M. John Harrison
91
The Siege (2001) af Helen Dunmore
92
Darkmans (2007) af Nicola Barker
93
Det magiske vendepunkt (2000) af Malcolm Gladwell
94
Krøniker (2004) af Bob Dylan
95
A Little Life (2015) af Hanya Yanagihara
96
Harry Potter og Flammernes Pokal (2000) af J. K. Rowling
97
Mænd som hader kvinder (2005) af Stieg Larsson
98
Broken Glass (2005) af Alain Mabanckou
99
Jeg er flov over min hals og andre tanker om at være kvinde (2006) af Nora Ephron
100
Hjemsøgelse (2008) af Jenny Erpenbeck

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