2002


Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
The Lovely Bones
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
The Summons
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
Coraline
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Middlesex
Everything's Eventual
The Corrections
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEating Stone by Ellen MeloyThe Beast in the Garden by David    BaronCumberland Island National Seashore by Lary M. Dilsaver
Nature Published in Decade: 2000s
59 books — 10 voters
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Best Books of the Decade: 2000s
7,187 books — 28,372 voters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick RothfussThe Final Empire by Brandon SandersonHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Best Fantasy of the 2000s
603 books — 675 voters
Coraline by Neil GaimanThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk KiddEragon by Christopher PaoliniMiddlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Best Books of 2002
685 books — 242 voters

Thomas Ligotti
A multinational corporation is dreaming. We are an organization of more than 100 thousand souls (full time) and are presently seeking individuals willing to trade their personal lot for a share in our dream. Entry level positions are now available for self-possessed persons who can see beyond the bottom line to a bottomless realm of possibilities. Our enterprise is now thriving in a tough, global marketplace and has taken on a life all its own. If you are a committed, focused individual with a h ...more
Thomas Ligotti, My Work is Not Yet Done: Three Tales of Corporate Horror

Glenn Greenwald
Michael Ledeen—a contributing editor of National Review and a Freedom Scholar at the influential neoconservative think tank American Enterprise Institute—wrote on the National Review blog in November 2006: 'I had and have no involvement with our Iraq policy'. I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place.' Ledeen, however, wrote in August 2002 of 'the desperately-needed and long overdue war against Saddam Hussein' and when he was interviewed for Front Page Magazine the same month ...more
Glenn Greenwald, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

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