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<![CDATA[Best Books of the Decade: 2000's]]>
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<![CDATA[The Time Traveler's Wife]]>
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]>
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<![CDATA[The Kite Runner]]>
3
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<![CDATA[Twilight]]>
4
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<![CDATA[A Thousand Splendid Suns]]>
5
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]>
6
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<![CDATA[Water for Elephants]]>
7
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<![CDATA[Middlesex]]>
8
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<![CDATA[The Secret Life of Bees]]>
9
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<![CDATA[Life of Pi]]>
10
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]]>
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<![CDATA[The Road]]>
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<![CDATA[The Lovely Bones]]>
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<![CDATA[The Book Thief]]>
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<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]>
15
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<![CDATA[The Glass Castle: A Memoir]]>
16
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<![CDATA[Breaking Dawn]]>
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<![CDATA[My Sister's Keeper]]>
18
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<![CDATA[Eclipse]]>
19
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<![CDATA[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time]]>
20
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<![CDATA[The Da Vinci Code]]>
21
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<![CDATA[Atonement]]>
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<![CDATA[Bel Canto]]>
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<![CDATA[New Moon]]>
24
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<![CDATA[Me Talk Pretty One Day]]>
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<![CDATA[Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close]]>
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<![CDATA[The Shadow of the Wind]]>
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<![CDATA[Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia]]>
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<![CDATA[The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay]]>
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<![CDATA[The Thirteenth Tale]]>
30
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<![CDATA[Snow Flower and the Secret Fan]]>
31
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<![CDATA[Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time]]>
32
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140
<![CDATA[American Gods]]>
33
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<![CDATA[The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America]]>
34
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139
<![CDATA[The Other Boleyn Girl]]>
35
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124
<![CDATA[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]>
36
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<![CDATA[The History of Love]]>
37
11251
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<![CDATA[The Historian]]>
38
10772
114
<![CDATA[Angels & Demons]]>
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10531
114
<![CDATA[A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]]>
40
10283
108
<![CDATA[Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel]]>
41
10112
106
<![CDATA[The Host]]>
42
10088
108
<![CDATA[Never Let Me Go]]>
43
9709
102
<![CDATA[The Five People You Meet in Heaven]]>
44
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103
<![CDATA[The Namesake]]>
45
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102
<![CDATA[The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society]]>
46
9441
101
<![CDATA[The Corrections]]>
47
8805
93
<![CDATA[Cloud Atlas]]>
48
8223
85
<![CDATA[Nineteen Minutes]]>
49
8080
87
<![CDATA[Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything]]>
50
7922
83
<![CDATA[What Is the What]]>
51
7899
82
<![CDATA[Oryx and Crake]]>
52
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81
<![CDATA[The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream]]>
53
7459
79
<![CDATA[No Country for Old Men]]>
54
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79
<![CDATA[The Last Lecture]]>
55
7304
78
<![CDATA[Kafka on the Shore]]>
56
7152
75
<![CDATA[The Blind Assassin]]>
57
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77
<![CDATA[The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao]]>
58
6996
74
<![CDATA[House of Leaves]]>
59
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72
<![CDATA[The Omnivore's Dilemma]]>
60
6873
73
<![CDATA[Empire Falls]]>
61
6564
71
<![CDATA[Under the Banner of Heaven]]>
62
6403
69
<![CDATA[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life]]>
63
6253
66
<![CDATA[Running with Scissors: A Memoir]]>
64
6131
67
<![CDATA[Peace Like a River]]>
65
6116
66
<![CDATA[Persepolis 1: The Story of a Childhood]]>
66
5647
61
<![CDATA[Looking for Alaska]]>
67
5377
57
<![CDATA[The Pact: A Love Story]]>
68
5345
59
<![CDATA[The Shack]]>
69
5049
55
<![CDATA[The Known World]]>
70
4924
54
<![CDATA[White Teeth]]>
71
4726
51
<![CDATA[Gilead: A Novel]]>
72
4684
50
<![CDATA[A Great and Terrible Beauty]]>
73
4572
50
<![CDATA[Seabiscuit]]>
74
4468
50
<![CDATA[Anansi Boys]]>
75
4429
48
<![CDATA[The Secret Magdalene: A Novel]]>
76
4341
45
<![CDATA[Fast Food Nation]]>
77
4281
47
<![CDATA[The Book of Lost Things]]>
78
4260
46
<![CDATA[Plain Truth]]>
79
4236
47
<![CDATA[John Adams]]>
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4211
46
<![CDATA[Daughter of Fortune: A Novel]]>
81
4060
45
<![CDATA[The Hunger Games]]>
82
4015
43
<![CDATA[Blink]]>
83
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44
<![CDATA[Coraline]]>
84
3929
44
<![CDATA[The Story of Edgar Sawtelle]]>
85
3919
44
<![CDATA[Shantaram]]>
86
3886
41
<![CDATA[World Without End]]>
87
3862
43
<![CDATA[Suite Française]]>
88
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37
<![CDATA[The Memory Keeper's Daughter]]>
89
3264
38
<![CDATA[The Penultimate Peril]]>
90
3256
35
<![CDATA[The Name of the Wind]]>
91
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33
<![CDATA[The Graveyard Book]]>
92
2942
33
<![CDATA[House of Sand and Fog]]>
93
2862
34
<![CDATA[Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic]]>
94
2844
31
<![CDATA[Case Histories: A Novel]]>
95
2770
31
<![CDATA[Special Topics in Calamity Physics]]>
96
2681
30
<![CDATA[The Yiddish Policemen's Union]]>
97
2649
30
<![CDATA[Moloka'i]]>
98
2612
29
<![CDATA[The Savage Detectives]]>
99
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28
<![CDATA[Tithe]]>
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27