The Raw List of Some 21st Century Books That Impressed Me [not annotated]

For the past couple days, I've been putting together a 'Books of the 21st Century' list.
It's a very personal list--these are not necessarily "the best" of anything, they're books that impressed me.
Some here have a note, most not. I'd like to annotate the list, but I'm giving myself a headache and I want to stop now, so I'm posting this as is.

THE RAW LIST of . . . [counts] 43 Books from This Century That Impressed Me

Any books you'd include or recommend?

1997 [obviously not 21st cent. but this book really impressed me. I don't like the author's novels though.]
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, nonfiction, Haruki Murakami, 1997.
About the 1995 Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

2000
Me Talk Pretty One Day, nonfiction (humor, memoir), David Sedaris, 2000.  
"I then declared my love for IBM typewriters, the French word for "bruise," and my electric floor waxer."

Troll: A Love Story––novel, Johanna Sinisalo, 2000. Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas, 2003.

2001
Life of Pi––novel, Yann Martel, 2001.

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times--American Buddhism/self-help, Pema Chödrön, 2001.

Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight: an African childhood, Alexandra Fuller, 2001. [Did this fall out of favor? I haven't seen it on anyone's best-of list.]

2002
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning––history/politics, Chris Hedges

2003  
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea––graphic nonfiction, Guy Delisle, 2003.

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, nonfiction, Laurence Gonzales

2004
Islam Explained, Tahar Ben Jelloun, The New Press, 2004.
A Muslim father answers his daughter's questions about the religion.

"Consider the Lobster"--nonfiction, David Foster Wallace, Gourmet Magazine, August 2004. PDF: https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
"Is it all right to boil a sentient being alive just for our gustatory pleasure?"

*The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness--memoir, Karen Armstrong, 2004.

2005
The Democratic Genre: Fan Fiction in a Literary Context, Sheenagh Pugh (for my fandom book--I enjoyed it so much)

2006
*World War Z––novel (apocalyptic), Max Brooks, 2006

Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance–history, Ian Buruma, 2006.
(I remembered being impressed by Buruma when I'd read his notes for Sunday Bloody Sunday on the Criterion DVD--he's the nephew of director John Schlesinger.)

The Soul Of A New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa--cookbook, Marcus Samuelsson, 2006.
Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden--and had a restaurant in Mpls for a while

*The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World––nonfiction, Steven Berlin Johnson, 2006.

Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion––psychology, Marlene Winell, 2006 ed. (first pub 1993)

2007

*"When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth", short story (apocalyptic), Cory Doctorow, I read it in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams, 2008; you can read it online, licensed as a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5:
https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html

2008
Here Comes Everybody: the Power of Organizing without Organizations––nonfiction, Clay Shirky, 2008.
"how online social tools enable individuals to collaborate, organize, and communicate more effectively than ever before."

The Wordy Shipmates––history, Sarah Vowell

2009
*Wolf Hall––novel, Hilary Mantel, 2009.

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead––mystery novel, Olga Tokarczuk, 2009.

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea––history, Barbara Demick, 2009.
... life in North Korea through the eyes of six defectors.

2010
Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter--nonfiction, Tom Bissell
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2010/mar/21/tom-bissell-video-game-cocaine-addiction
"Tom Bissell was a prize-winning young writer. Then he started started playing the video game Grand Theft Auto, became cocaine addicted, sleep deprived and for 3 years barely able to write a word."
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Started Early, Took My Dog–– "a Jackson Brodie crime novel", Kate Atkinson, 2010.

The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss––family memoir, Edmund de Waal, 2010.

2012 
The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln––graphic biography, Noah Van Sciver, 2012.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead––psychology, self-help, Brené Brown, 2012.

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail––memoir, Cheryl Strayed, 2012.

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, (2nd ed.) Henry Jenkins

2013
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, Illustrated Edition––nonfiction/art by Maira Kalman,  2013.

An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Chris Hadfield

2014
"Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?", graphic memoir by Roz Chast

2015
Superbetter: How a Game-ful Life Can Make You Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient, Jane McGonigal

2016
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds--nonfiction (psychology, biography), Michael Lewis, 2016. Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and their research into cognitive biases

The Gardener and the Carpenter––child psychology, Alison Gopnik: “When we garden,...we do not believe we are the ones who single-handedly create the cabbages or the roses. Rather, we toil to create the conditions in which plants have the best chance of flourishing.”

2017
Less––novel, Andrew Sean Greer, 2017 (Pulitzer Prize, 2018).
Like a very nice culinary foam.

*All Systems Red––novel (sci-fi), first of the Murderbot Diaries, 2017–, Martha Wells.

2018 
There, There––novel, Tommy Orange, 2018.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress--nonfiction, Stephen Pinker, 2018.

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism––nonfiction, Robin DiAngelo, 2018
OMG, what I could never agree about with Ass't Man.

2021
Project Hail Mary, novel (sci-fi), Andy Weir, 2021.