2024-25

Our books for this year come from the staff at The Atlantic, who assembled a list of 136 American novels considered to be the most significant of the past 100 years. We pared that list down to ten 21st century novels and chose the following books to read.

The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen

A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

Open City, Teju Cole

The Round House, Louise Erdrich

The Sellout, Paul Beatty

No One Is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood

Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff

Veronica, Mary Gaitskill

Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros