NYT - Top 100 Books of the Century: Have You Read Them All?

These are the BEST BOOKS of the 21st Century???
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[@enacausmembrane]

But, we are only around 20% into this century. THE CENTURY HASN'T EVEN ENDED YET! Imagine announcing the best films of 2024, in March...

[@30secondsflat]

I really think we need an alternate list of books, like "100 best books of the 21st Century you (and critics) have never heard of". Some of the choices were good, some were predictable, mostly they were books you've heard of, and there was a lot of repetition of authors

[@kiranreader]

honestly, let's rename it THE BORING BOOK LIST and call it a day!

[@KDbooks]

NYT? More like… BOR-ING T

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Yeah I was a bit underwhelmed by some of the choices on this list. T’was great to see your reaction though ❤️

[@GuiltyFeat]

The first Ferrante on the list is not part of the Neapolitan quartet. I wish I could generate even a fifth of your certainty about anything. My only pushback might be that despite your incredulity Jesmyn Ward has written the greatest novel of the 21st century. Read “Salvage the Bones” and prepare to eat your beard.

[@BobTheBookerer]

The joy of watching you read the list in real-time is the slow dawning realisation that authors can appear more than once, and then you losing it more and more as you go. But yeah, it’s verrrrrry Pulitzer/prize heavy. And yeah, as much as I like a lot of books on the list, it’s very much focused on North America/Europe.

[@KDbooks]

Why do you take so much joy out of my suffering 😭

[@BobTheBookerer]

@@KDbooks here 4 u bbz xx

[@CateCrafter]

No, not the Han Kang slander. The Vegetarian is a brilliant book! 😭

[@KDbooks]

*adds to Black list*

[@janetay8798]

The Vegetarian isn't on my personal fave list, but I think it's written very well!

[@KDbooks]

*adds another to black list* 🤣

[@janetay8798]

@@KDbooks very unkind joke on a viewer that just found your channel, I'm not watching your video anymore byebye

[@laineyrae8981]

​@janetay8798 but it's a joke... and hardly a malicious one at that. I mean, his dislike for the book is serious, sure. (I love the book.) Maybe it's best you've said your hello and goodbye now if your humors don't get along already.

[@BookishAdventuresInWellbeing]

This was a brilliant rollercoaster of emotions! 😂

[@victoriap1561]

someone should tell Americans they aren't that great at writing that a list of the 100 best books would have 80 american authors 😂😂

[@nealsteplaws]

It was clearly stated that this list was the best books of the 21st century according to writers, publishers, critics, academics, librarians, and other professionals in the American literary field, not the most popular books according to the general public. They are currently working on their next list, which is just that. Anyone can submit their 10 best books. And His Dark Materials was published in the 90s.

[@KDbooks]

I also clearly stated that I didn’t read the intro paragraph of the list 🤣

[@GemofBooks]

😂😂😂 I hate it when authors appear multiple times on lists like this. Lazy, lazy, lazy

[@leopercara3477]

You're right. A list of influential and best-selling books in pop culture would have been as awful, but at least not boring and predictable. And Hilary Mantel would have been on that one aswell, so it would be a win-win.

[@jackwalter5970]

You have to realize this list was the result of a compilation of responses from over 500 authors.

[@KDbooks]

They all were being very silly then

[@jackwalter5970]

@@KDbooks they should only have allowed each author one book, whichever one placed highest on the list. But, that's the NY Times.

[@johnsilver8059]

Authors, critics, publishers, “readers”, etc.

[@ariannefowler455]

This list has to be AI generated. I refuse to believe otherwise.

[@Rykel_R]

haha this is the only take i need on nyt book list 🤣🤣

[@Alan-wd7wv]

Wizard of the Crow, Year of the Goat, Remainder, Milkman, anything by Yan Lianke, Krasznahorkai, Ndiaye or Marias?

[@KDbooks]

Remainder would be on my list 1000000%

[@OverlyAverageBen]

This was one of the lists of all-time

[@Shelf_Improvement]

@@OverlyAverageBen at least of the 21st century 😂

[@KDbooks]

🤣

[@an0n7m0us2]

Absolutely loved the reactions and agree with your assessments! Would be nice to have a video from you about your top 50-100 books in the last 24 years along with their genre. Could make an excellent reading list for a lot of us!

[@Lokster71]

Very enjoyable video. The list is US focused, which I suppose is to be expected. The multiple book thing screws the list. You really should have be 100 different books from 100 different authors. Also 'best' v 'influential' v 'popular' is always a problem.

[@thecinematicmind]

How To Be Both alongside Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on this list is depressing.

[@thecinematicmind]

In fact come to think of it. Where on earth was Gone Girl?

[@azu_rikka]

You definitely have to read the Neapoletan Quartet as a father of two daughters- I find that, apart from all the other brilliant elements, Ferrante captures the complexity of women perfectly!

[@PabloReyesVelasco]

Counterprogramming the final 👏

[@KDbooks]

Someone has to 🤣

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

What I gather from this video is that if it won an award that means Kieran read it and disliked it and if he hasn’t read it Kieran is glad it’s on the list.

[@KDbooks]

That is a fair assessment 🤣

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

The only problem with watching other book tube channels is that it only increases the tbr! Happy reading.

[@abookhug]

This list sucks so much. It's so US-centric it's laughable. I won't mention how few non-English language books are on there... Days of Abandonment is a standalone novel by Ferrante (my favourite but I still haven't read her Neapolitan series). I disagree about putting things likeTwilight etc on there though, best should just mean best, not most popular/best selling imo

[@jaimee-kate]

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[@KDbooks]

He’s a star and exceptionally talented! Thank you for popping on over 😆

[@OnlyySunshine]

Have you read any more Cormac besides The Road? Broke my heart when you said it was bad. 😢 lol 😂

[@KDbooks]

I’ve reviewed All the Pretty Horses, The Passenger, Silas Marner and Blood Meridian here

[@OnlyySunshine]

@@KDbooks Awesome! I’ll have to check it out!

[@lainieelf7056]

That list was deeply unserious. Too many authors with multiple entries, while other deserving works were snubbed. I also found it too US-centric.

[@LiteratureScienceAlliance]

The duplicates were wild to me, also filmed my own reaction and also mentioned Colleen Hoover 😂

[@KDbooks]

CoHo for life

[@sophienewman6103]

Can not believe a little life did not make the list. I didn't love it but so many people did.

[@ianp9086]

You’re so right - deeply lazy journalism and a waste of time. But sorry that Ducks, Newburyport wasn’t on it 😂

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

Akira came out in 1988.

[@KDbooks]

Good point 🤣 But where is ANY manga on this list?!

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

@@KDbooks In fairness, if they put the individual Neopolitan novels, that might mean they’d have to pick specific installments. Do you pick compendium 3, 15, or 21 of, say, Vinland Saga? Too confusing. If it’s not printed in one binding, I doubt they can put a series in wholesale.

[@Muslim_Student]

I like reading the Mist read books in each category and from different countries

[@kiranreader]

i also tried the sympathizer...

[@KDbooks]

…aaaaaaaaaaaand?

[@ZAINHASSAN-ov4qw]

I actually thought Harry Potter would be in here🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hasteyebooks]

This list was wild. Why were there multiple books by authors? Why did they publish in 2024 and not wait until the end of 2025?

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

first I've heard of this NYT list. Looks like a lot of pulitizers on it which makes me think of the saul bellow character who called the pulitizer a dummy newspaper prize given by crooks and illiterates and maybe that's still a little true. Train dreams was a nice little novella and it was up for the NBA that year but they decided not to even award a prize for anything. Tree of smoke DID get it though some people weren't impressed and thought it would have worked better as two different bks. Liked a visit from the goon squad though not enough to bother with her sci-fi follow -up . Didn't get far with saunder's lincoln in the bardo but happened to pick up tenth of december cause that's my birthday and LOVED it. I mean two of the stories in it caused me to have BELLY LAUGHS for the first time in yrs from just reading something. I bought the entire mantel trilogy but decided I didn't want to read it until you said wolf hall was one of the best bks of the century. Now I HAVE to take at least one serious stab at it. Be well and stay out of the line of fire.⚛😀❤

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[@KDbooks]

Hoping you’ve read more when I drop my list 😆

[@hibabelimi5328]

I love your videos

[@thecinematicmind]

Not even a children’s book? Where’s the poetry? Where’s the photobooks?

[@darrenclayden6222]

I couldn't believe it either when I saw Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow on the list. Absolutely awful novel. Trust by Hernan Diaz is another really bad book that shouldn't be anywhere on this list either

[@KDbooks]

I liked the first half of this comment… then you brought the knife out

[@darrenclayden6222]

@@KDbooks 😅had a feeling your reaction might be something like that. I still remember the shock I had when I watched your review of Trust and you gave it a 10/10😑

[@KDbooks]

@@darrenclayden6222 🤣

[@hettige]

You could have least putten the book cover and title on screen while you spoke about it. Is that too much to ask

[@KDbooks]

I hated this list so much… so yeah, it was 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@mact8190]

Yes, Philip Roth is dead.