How Does BookBrowse’s Coverage Compare?


NYT - BookBrowse Overlap

In case you missed it, last week The New York Times released its list of the Best 100 Books of the 21st Century. So, we thought we’d compare how BookBrowse did at featuring these books over the past 25 years, and have included a helpful table for you to see the full breakdown.

The answer: pretty good!  We reviewed and recommended in full 40 of the 100, and briefed an additional 44, for a total coverage of 84 / 100 – we also covered 19 of the top 20. This overlap is all the more impressive when we consider how selective we are about the books we cover – roughly 1,400 covered in brief each year, with only around 220 reviewed and recommended in full each year. For the 16 books we did not cover, we’ve added brief pages, but noted in the table below where we didn’t have a review or brief prior to the list being published.

While the NYT surveyed  500+ ‘literary luminaries’ to assemble their list, we rely on our small team of editors and reviewers to choose what we brief and review.  It’s nice to think that over the past 25 years, we have made a small contribution to highlighting and elevating the excellent work of these authors.

You can review the full NYT list below, as well as the author, year, and our coverage.  If you’d like to learn more about any books on the list, each title is linked to the corresponding BookBrowse page for the book.








































































































NYT Rank

Book Title

Author

Year Published

BookBrowse: Reviewed, Briefed, or Didn’t Cover?
100 Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson 2007 Reviewed
99 How to Be Both Ali Smith 2014 Reviewed
98 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 Briefed
97 Men We Reaped Jesmyn Ward 2013 Briefed
96 Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Saidiya Hartman 2019 Briefed
95 Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 2012 Briefed
94 On Beauty Zadie Smith 2005 Reviewed
93 Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel 2014 Reviewed
92 The Days of Abandonment Elena Ferrante 2005 Didn’t Cover
91 The Human Stain Philip Roth 2000 Didn’t Cover
90 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 Reviewed
89 The Return Hisham Matar 2016 Briefed
88 The Collected Storiesof Lydia Davis Lydia Davis 2009 Didn’t Cover
87 Detransition, Baby Torrey Peters 2021 Reviewed
86 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 Briefed
85 Pastoralia George Saunders 2000 Briefed
84 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 Briefed
83 When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut 2021 Didn’t Cover
82 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 2020 Briefed
81 Pulphead John Jeremiah Sullivan 2011 Didn’t Cover
80 The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante 2015 Briefed
79 A Manual for Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 2015 Briefed
78 Septology Jon Fosse; translated by Damion Searls 2022 Briefed
77 An American Marriage Tayari Jones 2018 Reviewed
76 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow Gabrielle Zevin 2022 Reviewed
75 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 2017 Briefed
74 Olive Kitteridge Elizabeth Strout 2008 Briefed
73 The Passage of Power Robert Caro 2012 Briefed
72 Secondhand Time Svetlana Alexievich 2016 Briefed
71 The Copenhagen Trilogy Tove Ditlevsen 2021 Didn’t Cover
70 All Aunt Hagar’s Children Edward P. Jones 2006 Reviewed
69 The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander 2010 Briefed
68 The Friend Sigrid Nunez 2018 Reviewed
67 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012 Reviewed
66 We the Animals Justin Torres 2011 Briefed
65 The Plot Against America Philip Roth 2004 Reviewed
64 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 Briefed
63 Veronica Mary Gaitskill 2005 Briefed
62 10:04 Ben Lerner 2014 Didn’t Cover
61 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver 2022 Reviewed
60 Heavy Kiese Laymon 2018 Didn’t Cover
59 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 Briefed
58 Stay True Hua Hsu 2022 Reviewed
57 Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 Briefed
56 The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 2013 Briefed
55 The Looming Tower Lawrence Wright 2006 Briefed
54 Tenth of December George Saunders 2013 Reviewed
53 Runaway Alice Munro 2004 Reviewed
52 Train Dreams Denis Johnson 2011 Briefed
51 Life After Life Kate Atkinson 2013 Reviewed
50 Trust Hernan Diaz 2022 Reviewed
49 The Vegetarian Han Kang 2016 Briefed
48 Persepolis Marjane Satrapi 2003 Didn’t Cover
47 A Mercy Toni Morrison 2008 Reviewed
46 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 Reviewed
45 The Argonauts Maggie Nelson 2015 Briefed
44 The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin 2015 Briefed
43 Postwar Tony Judt 2005 Didn’t Cover
42 A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 Reviewed
41 Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 Briefed
40 H Is for Hawk Helen Macdonald 2015 Reviewed
39 A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010 Reviewed
38 The Savage Detectives Roberto Bolaño 2007 Reviewed
37 The Years Annie Ernaux 2018 Didn’t Cover
36 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 2015 Briefed
35 Fun Home Alison Bechdel 2006 Didn’t Cover
34 Citizen Claudia Rankine 2014 Briefed
33 Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 Briefed
32 The Line of Beauty Alan Hollinghurst 2004 Reviewed
31 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 Briefed
30 Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward 2017 Reviewed
29 The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000 Didn’t Cover
28 Cloud Atlas David Mitchell 2004 Briefed
27 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 Reviewed
26 Atonement Ian McEwan 2002 Briefed
25 Random Family Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 2003 Didn’t Cover
24 The Overstory Richard Powers 2018 Reviewed
23 Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage Alice Munro 2001 Didn’t Cover
22 Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo 2012 Reviewed
21 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 Reviewed
20 Erasure Percival Everett 2001 Didn’t Cover
19 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2019 Briefed
18 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017 Reviewed
17 The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015 Reviewed
16 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon 2000 Briefed
15 Pachinko Min Jin Lee 2017 Reviewed
14 Outline Rachel Cusk 2015 Reviewed
13 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 Reviewed
12 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 2005 Briefed
11 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 2007 Reviewed
10 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 Reviewed
9 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 Reviewed
8 Austerlitz W.G. Sebald 2001 Briefed
7 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 Reviewed
6 2666 Roberto Bolaño 2008 Briefed
5 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 Briefed
4 The Known World Edward P. Jones 2003 Briefed
3 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel 2009 Reviewed
2 The Warmth of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 Briefed
1 My Brilliant Friend Elena Ferrante 2012 Briefed



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