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Reacting to the follow up NY Times' Readers picks of The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century discussing what I've read & what I want to read. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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James by Percival Everett
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The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
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The Overstory by Richard Powers
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Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
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Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
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Normal People by Sally Rooney
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Circe by Madeline Miller
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
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North Woods by Daniel Mason
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
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Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
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Trust by Hernan Diaz
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
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Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
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In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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@judybrown1624 2 месяца назад

That 39 overlap is probably higher than it would have been if we hadn't seen the writer's list beforehand. Also, I only started tracking my reading on Goodreads in 2012, so I may have missed a few from early in the century.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Yes, that's an interesting point!

@lauracorsi3309 2 месяца назад

I like this list so much better. This is a wonderful list. Good to see the overlap too, that means us readers are not so far off.

@Rosiemayj 2 месяца назад

I love these lists! Thanks Eric. I've read 4 of the top 5 and they are all deserving in my opinion. So happy to see Demon Copperhead at no. 1. I was also so so pleased to see A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin on the critics choice list, I read it recently and was so moved by Berlins auto-fiction stories. I think like Shuggie Bain and Demon Copperhead you really gain a more profound awareness of the devastation and heartbreak of living with addiction. Berlins writing style is so unique, sharp, compassionate, bold and funny, the stories all have such surprising and clever endings, I can't recommend highly enough. I want to read so many from both lists, this summer I plan to get to: The Underground Railroad, Olive Kitteridge and Middlesex.

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 2 месяца назад

Highly recommended The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks I think nonfiction should have its own list.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Yes, it probably should - if only to have more books to discuss and recommend!

@iamtherealjulia 2 месяца назад

Eric, you MUST listen to Remarkably Bright Creatures. The octopus narration by Michael Urie is just spectacular! You won't forget these characters.

@garagegeek4863 2 месяца назад

This was a monumental undertaking in itself. Great job.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Thank you! 😊📚

@MountainShadow8 2 месяца назад

I am so happy to see Just Kids, by Patti Smith, on this list. It is one of my very favorite books. It is a memoir with so many elements: life in New York City fifty years ago, amidst the beat, art, author scene. Most powerful, the love shared by Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe. It is a love story, but not for the faint of heart. Thank you for this inspiring video.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

There was a great interview of Patti Smith recently by actress Julie Louis Dreyfus in her podcast 'Wiser Than Me' where they talk about the book and lots of things about Smith's life. I'd really recommend listening to it and it inspired me to get to reading it even more!

@joniheisenberg 2 месяца назад

I can’t seem to find Patti Smith’s interview with Julia Louis Dreyfus on her podcast “Wiser Than Me.” Was it perhaps on a different forum?

@sonjatonnesen8619 2 месяца назад

I Got my copy signed by Patti herself….in person

@jamesduggan7200 2 месяца назад

very much enjoyed Just KIds, though perhaps those less familiar with Max's Kansas City, the Chelsea Hotel and CBGBs would be less glued to it than I was. I can't say that Mapplethorpe's portrait was as great as his photos of her were, but that's just my opinion.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

@@joniheisenberg Nope, it's definitely there. It's on season 2 of 'Wiser Than Me' and was posted on May 1 this year.

@michaelbroderick2282 2 месяца назад

Pulled in 25 with another 30 or so on my shelf. Some of the books you sneered at like The Kite Runner and The Book Thief I thought were excellent. Once again a great video!

@roxannerichardson-pn4xj 2 месяца назад

I’ve read many of them, but would switch the rankings of Demon Copperhead and A Gentleman in Moscow. Eric, that’s a must read!

@larajean1 Месяц назад

I've read 71 of this list of books! I own 5-6 more and will read them soon. I have to get to "The Bee Sting"! I LOVED "The Plot Against America" but noone else I know enjoyed it. Also loved "The Great World Spin" and my husband said it was like "eating glass".

@michaeldornan7737 2 месяца назад

The Lincoln Highway is just genius!!! Great video!

@FlaviodeSouzaEscritor 2 месяца назад

GONE GIRL IS A GREAT BOOK, a lot better than the film, because the way is told in the book is the really interesting thing, it would be impossible to tell the story in the way it's told by Gillian Flynn

@vayres7512 2 месяца назад

My list: Atonement - Ian McEwan 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami Plot against America - Philip Roth 4- Paul Auster The Return - Hisham Matar The savage detectives - Roberto Bolano The testaments - Margaret Atwood Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel A Strangeness in my Mind - Orhan Pamuk No country for old men - Cormac McCarthy

@rubyanddelilahandnani 2 месяца назад

These are recommendations?

@gpeaches 2 месяца назад

Interesting list! I've read about 30-40% of the books. Some books on the list I loved, others I frankly hated but I just don't think I was the target audience and I can still understand why they're loved by many even though they didn't resonate with me.

@GuiltyFeat 2 месяца назад

61 books on this list compared with 65 from the critics’ list. I’m now working through the individual top tens of the critics and there are some amazing books mentioned that didn’t end up on either list, like A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Matrix, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and Milkman.

@brensgems7539 4 дня назад

Remarkably Bright Creatures is great!!! The Glass Castle is also a 5 star!!

@karenmoore4430 2 месяца назад

Hi Eric I have read 27 of these and I have several on my TBR. I am reading Olive Kitteridge at the moment.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Fab!

@rebeccamaclean6242 2 месяца назад

Suprised that I have read 70 of the books on this list.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Wow, impressive! 📚📚📚

@katrinamuritala3207 2 месяца назад

I’ve read a few of these and had some on my tbr

@ianp9086 2 месяца назад

Only read 18 of this list compared to 24 of the critics list - still no Ducks! And no Ali Smith😢

@elizabethmoloney6967 2 месяца назад

Read 25 from this list though 31 books of shelves to be read . I agree , people forget that the first decade hade some seriously good literature ( imho) that I've kept on my shelves , one was just great fun and had soooooo much hype. You'll recognise it in my forgotten favourites from 2000 -2010 . House of Leave - the scariest book i have ever read . The Eyre Affair. The secret life of bees. The lovely bones . Blind Assassin. Fingers its. Crimson Petal and the White. Curious incident of the dog inthe middle of the night . Inkheart. The Shadow of the Wind . Jonathan Strange and Mr Morrell,. Suite Francaise. The Thirteenth Tale. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Oryx and Crake and wait for it The Da Vinci Code 😅 As ever great video's Karl

@browngirlreading 2 месяца назад

I've read 33 books on this list and 28 on the critics' list. Some of these book I would never put on a best book of the 21st century list.😅 I use you to read Cutting for Stone and The Warmth of Other Suns. This list is full of the most popular books that have come out but not necessarily the best imo.

@heathersneddon8866 2 месяца назад

I had read 46 of these, so that was definitely better than the New York Times Critics List - only read 35 of them

@aquaviolin07 2 месяца назад

I've only read about 20 of these, and only about 30 or so are on my TBR (some, incl. Wolf Hall, v v soon). I'd be much more interested in an updated list from The Guardian. I believe they picked Wolf Hall as the #1 book the last time around. I’m disappointed that none of my picks were on the readers’ list or the critics’ list. I picked Sin by Forugh Farrokhzad (translated by Sholeh Wolpe), That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu, A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, The Threshold by Iman Mersal, and Assembly by Natasha Brown.

@jamesduggan7200 2 месяца назад

6 for me; Ove one of my very favorites and 11/22/63 contains perhaps the best romance I've ever read (even though I don't dance). However, I do have 2 in the queue: Plot Against America and Year of Magical Thinking. Seems like a good list, as I've heard a lot of buzz about most of those. I do expect to read Eugenides' Marriage Plot but that didn't make this list. Thx - enjoyed!

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 2 месяца назад

On the initial list I’d only read 18. On the readers list it was 36. So twice as many. The Man Called Ove was made into film in Sweden and again in America. Great book. If a U.K. / Irish newspaper was to do a list, it would be very different.

@alisonjordan 2 месяца назад

Hello Eric 🙋‍♀️ Another interesting list of books 📚 It is such a shame you saw the film of “Where the Crawdads Sing” before reading the novel. I have read “A Thousand Splendid Suns” and “The Kite Runner.” They are powerful novels. You Should read them. I have read “ High Mountains of Portugal” and “Beatrice and Virgil” by Yann Martel, but I have yet to read “Life of Pi.” So many 📚 books...

@arekkrolak6320 2 месяца назад

the last thing these novels are is 'powerful'. Conan the Barbarian is powerful!

@Japoleczka 2 месяца назад

So many great titles, some of them I've already read, others on my tbr pile. About 'The Dutch House' by Ann Patchett - it was a beautiful story but then I read 'Pearl' by Sean Hughes, longlisted for Booker and found it extremely disturbing how many things were similar or identical. The main plot of two siblings, house, mother and more, much more including such details as diabetes. It's hard to believe that it simply was a coincidence... no clue who wrote or published their book first but it was so strange!

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

Interesting! I’ve not read Hughes’ book.

@Japoleczka 2 месяца назад

@@EricKarlAnderson It's not a bad literature and not too long, worth trying if you ever come across that.

@brigittebeche4117 2 месяца назад

Wonderful undertaking. What kind of ”issues” did you have with Hamnet?😢 I loved this book...of course that’s meaningless...irrelevant😅 stilll a very successful novel in France !

@NYLeafy.V 2 месяца назад

11- 23-63 was excellent ! And Patti Smith and Anne Patchett and Isabel Wilkerson and Percival Everett and Ottessa Moshfegh and George Saunders and Elizabeth Strout and Colson Whitehead and Joan Didion and …

@user-qo6tz1oe1v 2 месяца назад

I read 45 on the critics list and 67 on the reader's list

@Graceikeoluwa 2 месяца назад

Hey Eric. Could you please be adding timestamps in your videos?

@lisak2698 2 месяца назад

I’ve read 41 of these books and if I had to suggest just one that you haven’t read CLOUD CUCKOOLAND. I have read it twice and it has stuck with me.

@neetupd8510 2 месяца назад

I've read only 13 on the list and have 14 on my tbr.....

@blancamyriamlafuente8211 2 месяца назад

Please, please read Elena Ferrante.

@monaedoyle3631 2 месяца назад

It’s sad that no romance books were put on the list. There are several good ones that should have been included.

@GuiltyFeat 2 месяца назад

No books were “put” on the list. People sent in their top 10s and the results were calculated based on the votes received. If there were no romance books it’s because no one votes for them.

@omalleysmith9100 2 месяца назад

Okay, now I REAAALLLY feel like the only person in the world who did NOT enjoy Demon Copperhead & Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow. ..... . Where are my people at?? Lol.

@SM-vr8dz 2 месяца назад

I’m quite disappointed by this list. Unfortunately, I find myself sneering at more than a few 😅. A Brief History of Human Kind and Where Crawdads Sing? Uff. This list definitely has a recency bias too. Still fun to see what people are calling the best.

@ryannurburgring 2 месяца назад

Elena Ferrante deserves the Nobel prize in literature… so long overdue

@chrisallenmax 2 месяца назад

I’ve been following along with The NY Times rollout of these lists - and it seems a lot of authors had placed ‘Gone Girl’ on their lists as well - it was a great book - and at the time it seemed pretty subversive, to have the first act told my two unreliable narrators. I say this in the nicest way possible, and not from anything other than observation and a little disappointment; but at times on the lists your chuckles came across as kind of judgmental at the “readers” choices. The readers chose a translated version of one of Olga Tokarczuk’s works, and had some other really substantial substitutions to the “critics” list. I would have liked to have seen more McCarthy on the list; if only ‘No Country For Old Men’ to contrast with ‘The Road’ ending on a quasi-hopeful note.

@donreadsalot4932 2 месяца назад

PLENTY of adults your age and older - myself included - are fans of the Harry Potter series, the books of which get much more adult as they go along. Please don't pass judgment on them or those who read them. Especially having only read the first one.

@EricKarlAnderson 2 месяца назад

I wasn't passing judgement at all - it's great the Potter series inspired younger and older readers. I only said that having read the first book I personally didn't feel enthusiastic about continuing with the series even though I had heard the books become more complex as the series progressed. And I said for a lot of readers - especially readers 30 years and younger - the series was an important part of their reading life but I know many readers who I respect that are my age or older who also enjoyed them.