The ten best books since 2000?
Here is the NYT list of the 100 best books of the new millennium. The NYT did enlist me as a voter, and here were my choices. Note these were off the top of my head, without much thought, and in no particular order. The defining category was when they appeared in English, not in the original language. It is no accident that all my choices are fiction:
Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez
To the End of the Land, David Grossman
Pachinko, Min Lee
The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolaño
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, Alice Munro
The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
Solenoid, Mircea Cartarescu
My Brilliant Friend (and the entire quadrology), Elena Ferrante
Submission, Michel Houellebecq
My Struggle, volumes 1 and 2, Karl Knausgaard