Knox's Best Books of 21st Century

My book choices are emphatic and indulgent, as in, this is a list of my literary whims and influences over the last 24 years. The primary metric I used for list inclusion was to identify books that had a kind of influence on me both immediately and well beyond the experience of reading. I wanted to list out books that either have kept me thinking still to this day OR that actively changed a perspective or lens on how I saw the world. I stayed entirely in the 21st century, otherwise Donna Tartt’s The Secret History would have been included.