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.

  1. My Brilliant Friend
  2. The Warmth of Other Suns
  3. Wolf Hall
  4. The Known World
  5. The Corrections
  6. 2666
  7. The Underground Railroad
  8. Austerlitz
  9. Never Let Me Go
  10. Gilead
  11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  12. The Year of Magical Thinking
  13. The Road
  14. Outline
  15. Pachinko
  16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
  17. The Sellout
  18. Lincoln in the Bardo
  19. Say Nothing
  20. Erasure
  21. Evicted
  22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers
  23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
  24. The Overstory
  25. Random Family
  26. Atonement
  27. Americanah
  28. Cloud Atlas
  29. The Last Samurai
  30. Sing, Unburied, Sing
  31. White Teeth
  32. The Line of Beauty
  33. Salvage the Bones
  34. Citizen
  35. Fun Home
  36. Between the World and Me
  37. The Years
  38. The Savage Detectives
  39. A Visit From the Goon Squad
  40. H Is for Hawk
  41. Small Things Like These
  42. A Brief History of Seven Killings
  43. Postwar
  44. The Fifth Season
  45. The Argonauts
  46. The Goldfinch
  47. A Mercy
  48. Persepolis
  49. The Vegetarian
  50. Trust
  51. Life After Life
  52. Train Dreams
  53. Runaway
  54. Tenth of December
  55. The Looming Tower
  56. The Flamethrowers
  57. Nickel and Dimed
  58. Stay True
  59. Middlesex
  60. Heavy
  61. Demon Copperhead
  62. 10:04
  63. Veronica
  64. The Great Believers
  65. The Plot Against America
  66. We the Animals
  67. Far From the Tree
  68. The Friend
  69. The New Jim Crow
  70. All Aunt Hagar’s Children
  71. The Copenhagen Trilogy
  72. Secondhand Time
  73. The Passage of Power
  74. Olive Kitteridge
  75. Exit West
  76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  77. An American Marriage
  78. Septology
  79. A Manual for Cleaning Women
  80. The Story of the Lost Child
  81. Pulphead
  82. Hurricane Season
  83. When We Cease to Understand the World
  84. The Emperor of All Maladies
  85. Pastoralia
  86. Frederick Douglass
  87. Detransition, Baby
  88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
  89. The Return
  90. The Sympathizer
  91. The Human Stain
  92. The Days of Abandonment
  93. Station Eleven
  94. On Beauty
  95. Bring Up the Bodies
  96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
  97. Men We Reaped
  98. Bel Canto
  99. How to Be Both
  100. Tree of Smoke