Best Books of the 21st Century

The NYT Books section recently released its picks for the Top 100 books of the 21st Century, so far, given that we just hit the quarter-mark.

I was honestly surprised to see that I was in agreement with so many of their picks! Then I read the reader picks and thought… huh, this list is pretty good too.

Then I just needed to make my own. But I don’t read quite as much as the whole books section of the biggest newspaper. So I cut it in half. Here are my top 50. My excuse for every snub is that I haven’t gotten around to it yet.