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Twenty-First Century Literature (2001 CE to present)
2001
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
Geraldine Brooks
Australia
Novel
The Beauty of the Husband
Anne Carson
Canada
Poetry collection
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Alice Munro
Canada
Story collection
American Gods
Neil Gaiman
England
Novel
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald
Germany
Novel
Soldiers of Salammis
Javier Cercas
Spain
Novel
Summer in Baden-Baden
Leonard Tsypkin
Russia
Play
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
United States
Novel
Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks
United States
Play
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
United States
Novel
2002
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Canada
Novel
Unless
Carol Shields
Canada
Novel
City of the Beasts
Isabel Allende
Chile
Novel
Coraline
Neil Gaiman
England
Novella
Dart
Alice Oswald
England
Poetry collection
Stories of Your Life and Others
Ted Chiang
United States
Story collection
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
United States
Novel
Eragon
Christopher Paolini
United States
Novel
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters
Wales
Novel
2003
Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
Canada
Novel
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
England
Novel
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi
Iran
Memoir
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Yoko Ogawa
Japan
Novel
The Time Traveller's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
United States
Novel
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
ZZ Packer
United States
Story collection
Vernon God Little
DBC Pierre
United States
Novel
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
United States
Novel
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
United States
Novel
The Namesake
Jhumpa Lahiri
United States
Novel
The Fortress of Solitude
Jonathan Lethem
United States
Novel
2004
Runaway
Alice Munro
Canada
Story collection
A Complicated Kindness
Miriam Toews
Canada
Novel
2666
Roberto Bolaño
Chile
Novel
The History Boys
Alan Bennett
England
Play
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Susanna Clarke
England
Novel
Stuff Happens
David Hare
England
Play
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
England
Novel
Small Island
Andrea Levy
England
Novel
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
England
Novel
Suite Francaise
Irène Némirovsky
France
Novel series
New and Collected Poems
Czesław Miłosz
Poland
Poetry collection
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
United States
Novel
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
United States
Novel
2005
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Australia
Novel
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
England
Novel
The History of Love
Nicole Krauss
United States
Novel
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Lisa See
United States
Novel
2006
Inés of My Soul
Isabel Allende
Chile
Novel
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Muriel Barbery
France
Novel
Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann
Germany
Novel
The Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai
India
Novel
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami
Japan
Story collection
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
Novel
What Is the What
Dave Eggers
United States
Memoir
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
United States
Novel
2007
Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay
Canada
Novel
The Book of Negroes
Lawrence Hill
Canada
Novel
The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
England
Novella
The Vegetarian
Han Kang
Korea
Novel
The Great Man
Kate Christenson
United States
Novel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz
United States
Novel
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
United States
Novel
Last Night at the Lobster
Stewart O'Nan
United States
Novella
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
United States
Novel
2008
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
J.K. Rowlinge
England
Story collection
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale
England
Nonfiction novel
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
India
Novel
Unaccustomed Earth
Jhumpa Lahiri
United States
Story collection
2009
The Bishop's Man
Linden MacIntyre
Canada
Novel
February
Lisa Moore
Canada
Novel
Jerusalem
Jez Butterworth
England
Play
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
England
Novel
The Thing Around Your Neck
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
Story collection
A Death in the Family
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Norway
Novel
Cain
José Saramago
Portugal
Novel
2009–2010
IQ84
Haruki Murakami
England
Novel
2010
Annabel
Kathleen Winter
Canada
Novel
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan
United States
Novel
Freedom
Jonathan Franzen
United States
Novel
2011
The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje
Canada
Novel
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
England
Novella
Family Values
Wendy Cope
England
Story collection
Infatuations
Javier Marías
Spain
Novel
The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
United States
Novel
The Sojourn
Andrew Kfrivak
United States
Novella
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Catherynne M. Valente
United States
Novel
2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain
United States
Novel
2013
The Orendah
Joseph Boyden
Canada
Novel
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nigeria
Novel
Tenth of December
George Saunders
United States
Story collection
2014
Outline
Rachel Cusk
England
Novel
Family Life
Akhil Sharma
United States
Novel
2015
Ghachar Ghochar
Vivek Shanbhag
India
Novella
John
Annie Baker
United States
Play
The Humans
Stephen Karam
United States
Play
2015–2017
Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin
United States
Novel trilogy
2016
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
United States
Novel
2017
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen maria Machado
United States
Story collection
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
United States
Novel
2018
Circe
Madeline Miller
United States
Novel
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