Top 100 Books of the 21st Century

[Mark Kohut]

1) Against the Day
2) Bleeding Edge

5) Austerlitz--Sebald

Top Ten, svetlana alexievich
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perhaps
the Unwomanly Face of War (if in 2000s or the Chernobyl book)
Top Ten NK Jemison

How parochial i am for English language

#10-50 Knausgaard, some My Struggle

#20 IQ84 Murakami

#25-75: Inherent Vice...pure pleasure but self-derivative, not 'rich' enough
#25-75 Delillo's Point Omega, maybe higher.
#25-75 Percival Everett, two

#15--#80 Houlellebecq, with at least two.
# 65 Capital, Lanchester

#10--100 one Zadie Smith, at least.

#75-100 the yet-unpublished second Roth "autobiography"
$75--100 Roth, The Human Stain.
     NOT......Roth The Plot Against America

only one Vietnam war book (by an American)--probably *Dispatches. *

one Vietnam war book by a Vietnamese writer.

Nothing by Marylynne Robinson (unless it is her neglected first:
Housekeeping at #100)
Nothing by Ian MacEwan in the 2000s.
Nothing by Julian Barnes

#90 The Sellout, Maybe higher

#30 Brief History of Seven Killings

#49-50-51 Rachel Cusk's trilogy

#7-#50 Anne Carson, two

#85 An Alan Hollinghurst novel


at least 3 Great Chinese writers, unknown to me.
at least great writers from African states, one probably Ngugi wa Thiongo,
for Wizard of the Crow

PS
#100-150 Preparations for the Next Life, Atticus Lish.

#250-500 Corrections, Franzen, No others.

Others.