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In 1991 the Booker shortlist held six novels and not one was by a woman, in a year when women had written most of the fiction published in Britain. The Women's Prize was the answer to that absence, and its winners are among the best guides to women writing in English today.
Once a year, from a quiet room in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy chooses one writer out of all the languages on earth and asks the world to turn and look. A century of those choices is the nearest thing we have to a map of world literature.
Once a year a committee in New York names the finest American novel of the year and prints a single title where a whole literature might go. A century of those choices, read together, is one of the most revealing documents American letters possesses.

The 21st century has seen a proliferation of great literature, with numerous novels capturing the attention of readers around the world. Here are some of the best English language novels published since the year 2000. The Road by Cormac McCarthy…
