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Jan 13, 2022 04:20PM

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I created a challenge which I might clean up. I originally listed 50 books but it was way to long on the homepage, do i reduced it to 25.
Here are 26 through 50 of the best books since 2012
26 . What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
27 . Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
28 . Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
29 . The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
30 . Milkman by Anna Burns
31 . Improvement by Joan Silber
32 . Tenth of December by George Saunders
33 . Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
34 . Golden Child by Claire Adam
35 . American War by Omar El Akkad
36 . All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
37 . White Girls by Hilton Als
38 . Black and Blur by Fred Moten
39 . The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
40 . Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
41 . A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra
42 . Taipei by Tao Lin
43 . Capital by John Lanchester
44 . The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
45 . Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
46 . The Needle's Eye by Fanny Howe
47 . The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson
48 . All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
49 . LaRose by Louise Erdrich
50 . All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Here are 26 through 50 of the best books since 2012
26 . What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
27 . Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
28 . Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel
29 . The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
30 . Milkman by Anna Burns
31 . Improvement by Joan Silber
32 . Tenth of December by George Saunders
33 . Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
34 . Golden Child by Claire Adam
35 . American War by Omar El Akkad
36 . All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
37 . White Girls by Hilton Als
38 . Black and Blur by Fred Moten
39 . The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
40 . Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag
41 . A Constellation of Vital Phenomena: A Novel by Anthony Marra
42 . Taipei by Tao Lin
43 . Capital by John Lanchester
44 . The Broken Earth Trilogy by N. K. Jemisin
45 . Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
46 . The Needle's Eye by Fanny Howe
47 . The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson
48 . All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg
49 . LaRose by Louise Erdrich
50 . All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
I tried to buddy read All the Light We Cannot See with Fred but I found it really dull. It might have been my state of mind. I'll try it again to see if it's any better the second go round. On the homepage, the first 25, I think I've read two.