by The New York Times · 50 items
The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen (2001)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Michael Chabon (2000)
The Road — Cormac McCarthy (2006)
Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
The Known World — Edward P. Jones (2003)
The Kite Runner — Khaled Hosseini (2003)
A Gentleman in Moscow — Amor Towles (2016)
Lincoln in the Bardo — George Saunders (2017)
The Sympathizer — Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015)
Gilead — Marilynne Robinson (2004)
Home — Marilynne Robinson (2008)
Lila — Marilynne Robinson (2014)
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
Atonement — Ian McEwan (2001)
Saturday — Ian McEwan (2005)
On Beauty — Zadie Smith (2005)
White Teeth — Zadie Smith (2000)
Swing Time — Zadie Smith (2016)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Díaz (2007)
A Visit from the Goon Squad — Jennifer Egan (2010)
Freedom — Jonathan Franzen (2010)
Wolf Hall — Hilary Mantel (2009)
Bring Up the Bodies — Hilary Mantel (2012)
The Mirror & the Light — Hilary Mantel (2020)
The Underground Railroad — Colson Whitehead (2016)
Zone One — Colson Whitehead (2011)
The Nickel Boys — Colson Whitehead (2019)
Speak, Memory — Vladimir Nabokov (1966/reissued)
The Plot Against America — Philip Roth (2004)
American Pastoral — Philip Roth (1997)
My Absolute Darling — Gabriel Tallent (2017)
There There — Tommy Orange (2018)
Normal People — Sally Rooney (2018)
Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney (2017)
Beautiful World, Where Are You — Sally Rooney (2021)
Piranesi — Susanna Clarke (2020)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Susanna Clarke (2004)
The Goldfinch — Donna Tartt (2013)
A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
To Paradise — Hanya Yanagihara (2022)
Bewilderment — Richard Powers (2021)
The Overstory — Richard Powers (2018)
Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell (2020)
Matrix — Lauren Groff (2021)
Fates and Furies — Lauren Groff (2015)
The Sellout — Paul Beatty (2015)
Milkman — Anna Burns (2018)
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands — Kate Beaton (2022)
Prophet Song — Paul Lynch (2023)
James — Percival Everett (2024)