10 Best American Books of the 21st Century

If you wanted to be boring, you could decry the 21st century as one where reading started dying out, and kids especially seemed less interested in reading. Maybe some did, and maybe others read less, but young people still had certain sorts of books that resonated. And then beyond a teen-reading level, other authors were willing to challenge what a book could be – or do – as the 2000s gave way to the 2010s, and then the 2020s.