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100 books · 226 voters · list created July 9th, 2024 by ajita (votes) .
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message 1: by Danielle (new)

Danielle Reisch Thank you for creating this!


message 2: by CR (new)

CR Williams SO GLAD someone beat to it and made this a List!


message 3: by Shishira (new)

Shishira CR wrote: "SO GLAD someone beat to it and made this a List!"

hahahah! i was just starting to make this list because i couldnt already find it. But GR recommended this list as I was creating...


message 4: by Stephen (new)

Stephen MacLeod Thanks for creating the list. I was curious of the 100 books, which are top-rated on goodreads. Since I can't seem to resort the list view for myself, I manually compiled the top 10. Despite the NYT list being mostly fiction titles, it skews heavily toward non-fiction (8/10).

1. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - 4.52
2. Demon Copperhead - 4.50
3(tied). Heavy - 4.48
3(tied). Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals - 4.48
5(tied). Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - 4.47
5(tied). The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration - 4.47
7(tied). Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - 4.46
7(tied). Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - 4.46
9. The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels, #4) - 4.44
10. Between the World and Me - 4.40


message 5: by Sandlynn (new)

Sandlynn I have a few of these books on my TBR; however, I have literally read none of these books, and yet, I'm a big reader. I guess I just don't read what the New York Times considers the best books.


message 6: by Kirstjen (new)

Kirstjen I'm curious about this list, as it seems to be at the very least out of order. This makes me wonder if the list is accurate.


message 7: by Colleen (new)

Colleen It's not accurate. I just saw the list in the NYtimes site but can't get back to it since I don't have a subscription. Demon Copperhead is in the 80s I remember it because I was surprised. My Brilliant Friend is #1. A lot of the #s are off here.


message 8: by La La (new)

La La Kirstjen wrote: "I'm curious about this list, as it seems to be at the very least out of order. This makes me wonder if the list is accurate."

It's because people are voting for their favorites. It's in order of numbers of votes the books received. ☺


message 9: by La La (new)

La La Colleen wrote: "It's not accurate. I just saw the list in the NYtimes site but can't get back to it since I don't have a subscription. Demon Copperhead is in the 80s I remember it because I was surprised. My Brill..."

It's because people are voting for their favorites. It's in order of numbers of votes the books received.


message 10: by La La (new)

La La Why are there 101 books on the list? People shouldn't be adding books that aren't on the NYT list. Is there a way to turn off additions?


message 11: by Christine (new)

Christine La La wrote: "Why are there 101 books on the list? People shouldn't be adding books that aren't on the NYT list. Is there a way to turn off additions?"

Agreed. Project Hail Mary was not on original list, but it's been added here. It IS on the "Readers Choice" list, added about a week after NYTIMES list dropped.


message 12: by Diana (new)

Diana What an atrocious list. From 503 writers, readers and novelists? More like some anglocentric TikTok algorithm just spurted this randomly. We are doomed.


message 13: by Megan (new)

Megan I've deleted the two books that are not on the original/actual list (Project Hail Mary & Klara and the Sun).


message 14: by Amy (new)

Amy "The Necklace" by De Maupassant has been erroneously added at #94


message 15: by Megan (new)

Megan Thank you for the heads-up; I've deleted The Necklace from the list.


message 16: by Aung Sett (new)

Aung Sett Kyaw Min glad to see Sebald and Fernanda Melchor on the list


message 17: by Michelle (new)

Michelle Has anyone considered making a group to read through the list together?


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