The definitive ranking · Books
Books of the 2020s
Built from 530 forced-choice rankings by 39 Tāstmakers.
The highest-ranked book of the 2020s is Empire of AI, at 7.9 from 3 rankings.
| Book | Score | Rankings | Range of opinion | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Empire of AI2026 | 7.9 | 3 | Consensus | |
| 10 | Babel2022 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 11 | The Anxious Generation2024 | 7.7 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 13 |  |
Fourth Wing2023 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 16 | Remarkably Bright Creatures2022 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 17 |  |
One Day All This Will Be Yours2021 | 7.6 | 2 | Too few to say |
| 18 | Brothers Karamazov2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 20 | Anxious People2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 23 | Hurricane Season2020 | 7.6 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 24 | Famesick2026 | 7.6 | 4 | Consensus | |
| 29 | Cloud Cuckoo Land2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 32 | The Transit of Venus2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 37 |  |
North Woods2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 40 | The Word on Fire Bible2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 42 | Second Place2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 43 | My Friends2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 49 | Scattered All Over the Earth2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 50 |  |
The 1619 Project2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 52 | The Women2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 55 | Adulthood Rites2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 56 |  |
How to Be Well2025 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 60 | Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)2021 | 7.5 | 2 | Too few to say | |
| 62 | The Wager2025 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 63 | The Passion According to G.H2022 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 65 |  |
The Answer Is No2024 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 67 | The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store2023 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 69 | Intimacies2021 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 71 | A Short Stay in Hell2026 | 7.5 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 81 |  |
Caste2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 86 | Birnam Wood2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 87 | Project Hail Mary2021 | 7.4 | 5 | Divisive | |
| 92 |  |
Iron Flame2023 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 93 |  |
City of Last Chances2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 94 |  |
Beautyland2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 95 | Rejection2025 | 7.4 | 3 | Mixed | |
| 96 | L'anomalie2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 97 |  |
Wandering Stars2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 99 |  |
Of Boys and Men2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 100 | Orbital2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 105 |  |
Chain Gang All Stars2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |
| 107 | The Netanyahus2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 108 | The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 111 | Strangers2026 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 113 | Moral Ambition2025 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 114 | Scaffolding2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 115 | Dawn2023 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 117 | Us Against You2020 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 124 | The Blacktongue Thief2021 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 126 | The Secret Life Of Sunflowers2022 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say | |
| 128 | On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)2024 | 7.4 | 1 | Too few to say |