Three Thoughts on the NYT Top 100: Missing Millennials, Fading Autofiction, the Genre-Bending Era

Looking at some trends in the alleged top 100 books of the 21st century

If you pay attention to the literary discourse, you’ve likely been following the New York Times “The 100 Best Books of the 21^st Century” list. Like all such lists, it is alternatively interesting, baffling, and predictable. Mostly, it is fodder for conversation. That’s good. Lists may be silly, but they do get people talking about literature and—one hop…