This list is based on the opinions of the editors at Osyster:

1. Open City by Teju Cole

2. Just Kids by Patti Smith

3. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
4. The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht
5. The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee

6. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

7. A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

8. The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

9. The Unnamed Joshua Ferris
10.  People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
11. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
12. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
13. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
14. Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
15. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
16. The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
17. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
18. Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
20. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
21. Tenth of December by George Saunders
22. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
23. Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
24. 11/22/1963 by Stephen King
25. Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
26. Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
27. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
28. Bark by Lorrie Moore
29. 10:04 by Ben Lerner
30. A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBrideBoy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
31. Citizen by Claudia Rankine
32. On Immunity by Eula Biss
33. Those Guys Have All the Fun by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales
34. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
35. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
36. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
37. How Music Works by David Byrne
38. The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
39. A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
40. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
41. Going Clear by Lawrence Wright
42. The Son by Philipp Meyer
43. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
44. NW by Zadie Smith
45. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
46. Dare Me by Megan Abbott
47. Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
48. Bossypants by Tina Fey
49. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
50. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
51. Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
52. Dear Life by Alice Munro
53. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
54. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
55. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
56. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
57. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
58. The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
59. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson
60. Home by Toni Morrison
61. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
62. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
63. Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
64. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
65. Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
66. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
67. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
68. Gulp by Mary Roach
69. The Information by James Gleick
70. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
71. Redeployment by Phil Klay
72. The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
73. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
74. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
75. Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
76. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
77. Adam by Ariel Schrag
78. Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli
79. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
80. The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
81. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
82. I’ll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
83. The Black Count by Tom Reiss
84. And So It Goes, Kurt Vonnegut by Charles J. Shields
85. C by Tom McCarthy
86. The Round House by Louise Erdrich
87. Slow Getting Up by Nate Jackson
88. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
89. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self by Danielle Evans
90. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
91. Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
92. Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
93. Every Day by David Levithan
94. The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
95. The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
96. Time Warped by Claudia Hammond
97. How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
98. Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith
99. The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart
100. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Thoughts?

Is your favorite on here? Do you agree with the ranking of this list? What do you think should of been left off completely? What book or books should of been there instead?