As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.
All work to provide this list is done by the NYT team. But since the original website is behind a paywall, I extracted and made it available down below.
My Brilliant Friend The Warmth of Other Suns Wolf Hall The Known World The Corrections 2666 The Underground Railroad Austerlitz Never Let Me Go Gilead The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Year of Magical Thinking The Road Outline Pachinko The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay The Sellout Lincoln in the Bardo Say Nothing Erasure Evicted Behind the Beautiful Forevers Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage The Overstory Random Family Atonement Americanah Cloud Atlas The Last Samurai Sing, Unburied, Sing White Teeth The Line of Beauty Salvage the Bones Citizen Fun Home Between the World and Me The Years The Savage Detectives A Visit From the Goon Squad H Is for Hawk Small Things Like These A Brief History of Seven Killings Postwar The Fifth Season The Argonauts The Goldfinch A Mercy Persepolis The Vegetarian Trust Life After Life Train Dreams Runaway Tenth of December The Looming Tower The Flamethrowers Nickel and Dimed Stay True Middlesex Heavy Demon Copperhead 10:04 Veronica The Great Believers The Plot Against America We the Animals Far From the Tree The Friend The New Jim Crow All Aunt Hagar’s Children The Copenhagen Trilogy Secondhand Time The Passage of Power Olive Kitteridge Exit West Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow An American Marriage Septology A Manual for Cleaning Women The Story of the Lost Child Pulphead Hurricane Season When We Cease to Understand the World The Emperor of All Maladies Pastoralia Frederick Douglass Detransition, Baby The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis The Return The Sympathizer The Human Stain The Days of Abandonment Station Eleven On Beauty Bring Up the Bodies Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Men We Reaped Bel Canto How to Be Both Tree of Smoke