108 books
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34 voters
21st Century Books
Showing 1-50 of 100,000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 281 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,199,709 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 272 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,205,715 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 270 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,748,793 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 266 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,896,010 ratings — published 2003
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 256 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.85 — 900,670 ratings — published 2005
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 248 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,077,124 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 233 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,313,907 ratings — published 2000
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 218 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,295,294 ratings — published 2009
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 213 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,957,734 ratings — published 2005
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 211 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,968,959 ratings — published 2018
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,625,963 ratings — published 2003
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 206 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,841,488 ratings — published 2010
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 206 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,074,134 ratings — published 2013
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 202 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,848,363 ratings — published 2012
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,533,088 ratings — published 2012
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,207 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,584,029 ratings — published 2003
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 172 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 2,571,154 ratings — published 2003
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,780,244 ratings — published 2001
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.11 — 569,920 ratings — published 2002
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 273,753 ratings — published 2004
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,001,734 ratings — published 2001
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 162 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,509,797 ratings — published 2005
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 161 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.05 — 502,223 ratings — published 2011
Twilight (Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 156 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,468,747 ratings — published 2005
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.65 — 439,836 ratings — published 2007
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,431,553 ratings — published 2018
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.20 — 549,306 ratings — published 2020
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,131,423 ratings — published 2011
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.59 — 607,537 ratings — published 2018
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.01 — 664,673 ratings — published 2013
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.06 — 640,690 ratings — published 2014
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,051,790 ratings — published 2014
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 136 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.91 — 239,255 ratings — published 2009
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.66 — 401,849 ratings — published 2016
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,367,246 ratings — published 2015
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 423,344 ratings — published 2013
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,355,528 ratings — published 2017
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 131 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.93 — 174,183 ratings — published 2009
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,360,496 ratings — published 2011
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.04 — 670,940 ratings — published 2002
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.00 — 293,671 ratings — published 2003
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,479,878 ratings — published 2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,313,581 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.27 — 991,746 ratings — published 2015
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 121 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,624,704 ratings — published 2020
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 120 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,165,425 ratings — published 2016
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.70 — 254,833 ratings — published 2010
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 4.31 — 744,712 ratings — published 2001
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as 21st-century)
avg rating 3.79 — 179,403 ratings — published 2000
Goodreads 21st Century Literature Group - Most Important Books of the 21st Century
203 books
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233 voters
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Imagine no Viagra,
Put yourself at ease,
Flags at half-mast, limp,
No one worthy to please.
Imagine no more Temu,
It’s costly if you try,
No tacky deals to tempt us,
Prices rocketing sky-high.
Imagine all the suckers,
Chasing Black Friday deals —
Whoa.
You don’t pay for illegal streaming,
First, it works and then it’s gone,
I hope someday Hollywood joins us,
And binge-watchers will live as one.
Imagine all your neighbours,
Squatters on your Wi-Fi?
Why?
Imagine no porch pirates,
I wonder if Jeff Bezos can?
No toilet paper gold rush,
A calmer state of Man.
You may say we're screen-addicted,
Babies swiping, having "fun",
Messiahs made of viral nonsense,
Pull the plug and we are done!
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
Imagine no Viagra,
Put yourself at ease,
Flags at half-mast, limp,
No one worthy to please.
Imagine no more Temu,
It’s costly if you try,
No tacky deals to tempt us,
Prices rocketing sky-high.
Imagine all the suckers,
Chasing Black Friday deals —
Whoa.
You don’t pay for illegal streaming,
First, it works and then it’s gone,
I hope someday Hollywood joins us,
And binge-watchers will live as one.
Imagine all your neighbours,
Squatters on your Wi-Fi?
Why?
Imagine no porch pirates,
I wonder if Jeff Bezos can?
No toilet paper gold rush,
A calmer state of Man.
You may say we're screen-addicted,
Babies swiping, having "fun",
Messiahs made of viral nonsense,
Pull the plug and we are done!
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
―
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal cliché of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.”
― The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad
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