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

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