List for the paywalled:
100. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson
99. How to Be Both - Ali Smith
98. Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
97. Men We Reaped - Jesmyn Ward
96. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments - Saidiya Hartman
95. Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel
94. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
93. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
92. The Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
91. The Human Stain - Philip Roth
90. The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
89. The Return - Hisham Matar
88. The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis - Lydia Davis
87. Detransition, Baby - Torrey Peters
86. Frederick Douglass - David W. Blight
85. Pastoralia - George Saunders
84. The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
83. When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut
82. Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor
81. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan
80. The Story of the Lost Child - Elena Ferrante
79. A Manual for Cleaning Women - Lucia Berlin
78. Septology - Jon Fosse
77. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
76. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
75. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
74. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
73. The Passage of Power - Robert Caro
72. Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich
71. The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen
70. All Aunt Hagar’s Children - Edward P. Jones
69. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
68. The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
67. Far From the Tree - Andrew Solomon
66. We the Animals - Justin Torres
65. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth
64. The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai
63. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
62. 10:04 - Ben Lerner
61. Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
60. Heavy - Kiese Laymon
59. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
58. Stay True - Hua Hsu
57. Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich
56. The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner
55. The Looming Tower - Lawrence Wright
54. Tenth of December - George Saunders
53. Runaway - Alice Munro
52. Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
51. Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
50. Trust - Hernan Diaz
49. The Vegetarian - Han Kang
48. Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
47. A Mercy - Toni Morrison
46. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
45. The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
44. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin
43. Postwar - Tony Judt
42. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
41. Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
40. H Is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
39. A Visit From the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
38. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
37. The Years - Annie Ernaux
36. Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
35. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
34. Citizen - Claudia Rankine
33. Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
32. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
31. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
30. Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
29. The Last Samurai - Helen DeWitt
28. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
27. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
26. Atonement - Ian McEwan
25. Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
24. The Overstory - Richard Powers
23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - Alice Munro
22. Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo
21. Evicted - Matthew Desmond
20. Erasure - Percival Everett
19. Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
18. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
15. Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
14. Outline - Rachel Cusk
13. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
12. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
11. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Díaz
10. Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
9. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
8. Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
7. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
6. 2666 - Roberto Bolaño
5. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
4. The Known World - Edward P. Jones
3. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
2. The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson
1. My Brilliant Friend - Elena Ferrante
