Comments on Best Books of the Decade: 2000s - page 3

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

Well unfortunately we appear to be a bunch of immature 14 year old girls and pedophile leaning bored housewives instead....(yes a middle age woman lusting over teen boys is in fact pedophilia leaning get over it)

I don't understand why the Twilight books are placed on the same lists as good books with literary merit. It makes the whole list seem inaccurate.

Thanks, Amy, for your vigilance. I could not believe 2 of those 3 titles even made the list, and was thrilled to see them leave.

Alexandra wrote: "I expected to see more good read titles ie The Safe house, Nicci French.December, Elizabeth Windthrop.The Reader,Bernard Schlink. Arthur &George, Julian Barnes. These are only a selection of my 2..."

D. wrote: "Alexandra wrote: "I expected to see more good read titles ie The Safe house, Nicci French.December, Elizabeth Windthrop.The Reader,Bernard Schlink. Arthur &George, Julian Barnes. These are only a..." Isn't there an option to add them up top? I almost always find myself adding one or more books to a listopia.

The problem with putting the Harry Potter boxed set on there is only most of them were written in the 2000s decade, not all of them.

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WHERE IS THE NIGHT CIRCUS?! this book should absolutely be added to this list.

The Harry Potter and Percy Jackson series are amazing books. I know most adult don't take them seriously, since they're are aimed at kids, but they're actually great books for adults as well.

They aren't overrated either. They are just good books that brings millions of people around the world together. Is that so bad? Just because a lot of people like something doesn't mean it's crap. Most of time, but not all. :)

Where is Kate Atkinson?

I think people are forgetting that we vote for the book that 'we' enjoyed best, not the book that was better written or more highly acclaimed. Just because a book isn't written for the more 'intellectual' person doesn't mean it's a bad book, and vice versa.

Harry Potter at #1? My god... I came to this list to find new books to read and instead I'm looking at the bookshelf of a teeny bopper.

As long as it was written during the decade indicated, I think it's entirely subjective...I didn't like Harry Potter myself, but most of my family loved it. When it bothers me to see it rated so highly, I remind myself that there are some young people reading it that otherwise might not be reading.

Nancy, any of Kate Atkinson's books that you want to add and that were published during the relevant decade can be inserted by clicking the tab at the top of the list. You are automatically seeing "all votes", but if you click on "add book", you will get a window where you can add titles, or if you prefer, you can click the tab and then "add from my list" and all your books will pop up, and then you can just choose which ones you'd like to add. Initially they'll show up at the end of the list, but as long as the list is active, most likely your selections will be noted by others who have read what you liked, and they can vote for them too.

Nancy wrote: "Where is Kate Atkinson?"

See comment above.

Can this list be revised as "The Best Books of the Decade for Adults"? It seems a little silly to compare books about teen wizards and vampires to Cormac McCarthy and Zadie Smith, right?

Jamie wrote: "There's alot, but there's not much..."

Jamie, a friendly reminder: "a lot" is two words, not one. This is my pet peeve. I hope you don't mind my telling you.

Why are there so many vampire and zombie books on this list? I'm sure some of them are great books, but it seems to me this trend has gotten out of control!

Be careful about assuming that the vampire books aren't "for adults". I didn't like them, but I have a very literate friend (who teaches language arts and can tell you all about Tolstoy etc) who really, really likes that series. It's subjective. If people want the vampires, they can vote for the vampires.

You can always start a different listopia worded in such a way that no vampires are allowed, if you want to. However, I also know there are some listopias up and running that by definition exclude those books.

Somehow I get really annoyed to see books like Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight at the top of these lists.

Sabrina wrote: "Somehow I get really annoyed to see books like Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight at the top of these lists." Sure. I don't like 'em either. Lots of people do, though.

I love how people are actually ranting in here XD XD

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave originally published in 1845. I removed it.

Ooohlala, I totally agree with Hunger Games and Catching Fire!! :)) Although it's kinda sad in Mockingkay when SPOILER AHEAD!! Prim dies :(( cried..♥ xoxo

i lkie the books

Candy Apple books? Picture books? Really?

Sarah wrote: "Twilight? Jodi Picoult? These are some of the books that qualify as the best of the decade? Thanks but no thanks."

Well, a lot of people enjoyed them, though an equal amount of people hated them. (With Twilight at least)

Nice list overall but don't really see the point in listing Harry Potter books as single editions AND the boxset. Just something to mention :)

How's the Twilight series on here? It was extremely popular, but not very...good.

Can't take this list seriously since it has Stephanie Meyer in it.

Delete Twilight, put in The invention of Hugo Cabret instead!

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This list has become too long to be easily editable. Two obvious points:

1. Out of nearly 5,000 'best' books listed here, nearly two-fifths - 40% - have only been voted for by a single person. That isn't any kind of endorsement.

2. It's highly unlikely that 5,000 high-quality books were produced in 2000-2009, but only 1,500 in 1990-1999 and fewer than a thousand in 1980-1989. The more recent decade lists are being inflated. Beyond a certain point, this is self-defeating, because the lists become too long to read, and books added late will remain low on the list.

I think these lists should be regularly reduced in numbers to no more than 500 titles per decade. One way to start doing this would be to remove any book that after addition plus a fixed period - say, three months - has failed to gather at least three votes, or to exceed 100 points. This wouldn't be unreasonable, when you look at the point scores and numbers of voters that genuinely popular and well-regarded books in the top 100 regularly achieve.

That would be a good idea.

However under Goodreads rules it's not permitted to remove legitimate user votes that fit the list remit (i.e. here, books published during the given decade).

The votes are also a way for the user to compile a list of their view of the best that their friends & followers can see, because Goodreads doesn't provide personal lists otherwise.

Unless you limit lists specifically e.g. voting on preselected lists like:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/3...
Or to a given topic such as "best books about wizards", "best literary fiction of the 2000s" (a harder genre to define) then it's much more of a free-for-all.

Antonomasia wrote: "That would be a good idea.

However under Goodreads rules it's not permitted to remove legitimate user votes that fit the list remit (i.e. here, books published during the given decade).

The vot..."
Thanks for the reply. I thought that there might be a reason why the 2010-2019 list in particular hadn't been pruned.

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I voted for kite runner book thief and a thousand splendid suns these were the books that influenced my world a lot

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

Same here

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Please Let Twilight And would Why are you talking Severely And youVote him on the list I'm really tired I'm really angered Read harsh when talking about If you hate twilight There are those who love this series And feel happy if they find these books on the list like me respect the feelings of fans this book i felt sad and angry When someone says The Twilight is not literature What is this mean It's a complete story There are the figures And events evolve with the continuation of the story And there are the beginning and end No matter how bad do you think However, it is available with all the terms of literature like any other novel But that changed this novel literature vampires No one denies this Truth

My Favorite book is on the list I'm happy

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Sarah-Louise wrote: " Love the list but Bridget Jones' Diary was published in 96 according to the info on here."


Ok

What else included in this author's notebook?

There were several on the list that I just couldn't finish so didn't rate them.

Looks like The Kite Runner is on the list twice (#8, 18)