Comments on Best Books of the Decade: 2000s - page 2

I also love the Percy Jackson series! It was better than I expected. I like Twilight, and I'm a little surprised how much people hate it. It's just a book. And I don't think it qualifies for literature, I just read the series for fun. :)
Heh, I thought Seabiscuit was older than that but I guess not.

I'm so happy you included Looking for Alaska in this list, as it is a very good book. I'm going to read every book on this list starting from 100 until i get to 1. Unfortunately i'm going to have to read Twilight. Sigh..

Stephenie Meyer's made a good showing. Gotta love democracy...

What the heck? Why is the Hunger Games so far down on the list?

The Charm School by Nelson DeMille was published in 1988.
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just got married - for the third time so - haven't had time to comment.
But one of my favourite authors is Sarah Dunant who sets most of her novels in late medieval Italy. They are fabulous - best one is The Birth of Venus.
I also rate Nancy Huston's novels very highly...
Carolyn Taylor

I like that this list is diverse.

a very well-chosen list of books..great job!!

The roads the best. McCarthy. Harry Potter movies are better then the books.

why go to 2010?

Stieg larssens Millenium series should be on top of the list...Lisbeth Salander is one of the best book heroines

"He's Just Not That Into You"....Really? This list makes me realize how depressingly trivial quality literature is to the modern reader, and how in response the average popular read is depressingly mediocre.

I love almost all the books on this list

Sorry, but it looks like a cr*ppy decade. I should have slept through it.

The fact that all (to my knowledge) of Stephenie Meyers' novels are under thirty on this list really scares me. Seriously? EVERYONE, and I do mean EVERYONE, knows these books are poorly written fanfiction for tweens to copy-paste themselves onto Bella Swan. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Twilight being twenty feet within this list really, to me and anyone else who can read, is a really nice illustration of the authenticity of the laughably named "Best Books of the Decade: 2000's".

EDIT: I'm reading through TTTW atm, so I can't say this with all the integrity I'd like to, but: It's a nice book. A 'nice' book - not anything I would be proud to list as a book to top the decade.

This list is really... yeah. How much of the first page comments is people correcting the dates? So many of them from the original list weren't even published in this decade.

Moony wrote: "How can Beedle the Bard be on here when it's not been published yet?"

nice list

I'd like to point out that this list covers a variety of genres. Just because I don't think Twilight should be on ANY "best of" list, doesn't mean I'm automatically correct in that assumption. It probably is the best of something and since it's wildly popular it's going to rank high on the list. If people didn't like it, it wouldn't be here, and as far as I'm concerned, that's what "best of" means.

I've voted for six books in this category but I'd have to go with the Harry Potter books as my favourites. J.K. Rowling is an excellent writer who doesn't leave out a single detail. Better than some adult fiction.Song of the Phoenix

Thankyou for this list!

Is it just me or does it seem there are a few too many YA books on this list? I teach middle school LA so perhaps I'm just tired of seeing and hearing about some of these titles?

Killthepopular wrote: "IkraAmesta wrote: "i guess 3 of the top 5 from this list are highly overrated books."

Twilight and harry potter aren't overrated, its just that they largely appeal to young people in the same wa..."

Yes, this. It wouldn't be so high up if it hadn't been a movie.

What on earth are Smeyer's books doing on this list?! Honestly, the list says "best," not "trashy teen favorite."

LOL. The list just lost credibility with the Twilight inclusion.

The first few Vampire Diaries and the Night World books are not from the 2000s, I read them back in the 90s.

Some of these books on the list are from 2010-2012; they should probably be removed, given the title of the group.

Twilight.
...why?

Jordan wrote: "Twilight.
...why?"

My thoughts exactly. ;__;

Outlander, page 2, originally published in 1991

I actually ran a fever when I read The Kite Runner. That book ate me alive. Very good.

I can't agree with this list. Stephenie Meyer is quite clearly one of the worst 'successful' authors of the 21st Century, if not all time. She cannot write a decent sentence without using some idiotic descriptive word that does not have any relevance to what she tries to describe. There's a semicolon in almost every sentence, and dashes which make reading it near incomprehensible at times.

Extract - "About 3 things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him, and I didn't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him."

^^ Absolute garbage.

My God, the first page of this list makes me want to shoot myself in the face.

Moira wrote: "My God, the first page of this list makes me want to shoot myself in the face."

Wouldn't it be even more helpful to shoot some other people in the face? Though I can see you'd be kept very busy...

thagreat list great list :)

This list is a joke right? Seriously the best books of the decade include every piece of garbage that hack Stephanie Meyer wrote? and thats just for starters...absolute crap. is this entire site solely populated by 14 year old girls with deep problems and learning disabilities?

Just finished Game of Thrones. Loved it but don't know that I'd call it one of the best books of this last decade...
Drift by Rachel Maddow is a magnificent book and very important. I love when a spotlight is shone on something awful. Only way to clean it up is to know it's there.

I think - popular - more fitting than - best.

Some of these books I like, some I don't. Twilight falls less into the "don't" category and more into the "I can't believe anybody would read this trash this is so crappy there are so many other better books out there more like every single book out there is better than this one I can't believe I read this it was a waste of my life" category.

I noticed that a lot of this book is YA. The YA section in general is getting stupider and stupider. I loved Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, but two tween series just won't cut it and as a high schooler, I can't find anything good to read that doesn't have *ahem* adult content. That all changed when I read the The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner. OHMYGOSH that book was amazing. And the next three were even better. YET... The King of Attolia was only 435th on the list! WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?

The moral of this story: Twilight sucks. The end:)

D. wrote: "Sarah, I was wondering the same thing! I wonder how many people don't go past the first few pages, or make their check marks in consecutive order? I did this the hard way and wrote down the titles ..."

Courtney wrote: "The fact that all (to my knowledge) of Stephenie Meyers' novels are under thirty on this list really scares me. Seriously? EVERYONE, and I do mean EVERYONE, knows these books are poorly written fan..."

I am hoping it just means more young people are READING. An astonishing number of young people under 30 consider anything that can't fit into a text msg. to be too lengthy. Let them learn to read with this material, if it pleases them (said she, with a delicate shudder) and then hopefully they will read other things and develop taste.

I'd be happy to remove Frederick Douglass' narrative, if y'all will tell me where it is.

Perhaps one could use the "lists with this book" page on the book page to find where it is, exactly. Will have to see if that works.

ETA: Tried it, but couldn't find this list on the list. May have had wrong title, or someone else may have nabbed it.

TY for your diligence!

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i agree to disagree that some of the books up here astonish me.

Okay, THAT totally confuses me. Are you saying the selection of books that made the first portion of the list (or all of the list) do not surprise you? If so, I would think you would be the only one to have a right to an opinion about that. Others might disagree about the books, but only you know what you think.

I'd like to add Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann and
We The Animals by Justin Torres

This looks like an open list - assuming the books are eligible by publication date. (Adding books is easy; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.")

Urgh, honestly. I have no idea who votes on these lists, but I really cannot believe some of the titles here...

The people who vote on this list are listed at the bottom of the list. In this case, that would be over 17,000 people.

Twilight? Are we all serious right now? I thought this was supposed to be a group of cultured literary experts...