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The best books published during the 2000s decade (2000–2009).
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2000s lists
2000s shelf
Best By Date
Best Fantasy of the 2000s
Best Mystery of the 2000s
Best Non-fiction of the 2000s
Best Picture Books of the 2000s
Best Science Fiction of the 2000s
Most Rated Book by Year
Best Books by Century:
21st, 20th,
19th, 18th, 17th, 16th, 15th,14th, 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th,
9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th
Best Books by Decade:
2020–2029, 2010–2019, 2000–2009,
1990–1999, 1980–1989, 1970–1979, 1960–1969, 1950–1959,
1940–1949, 1930–1939, 1920–1929, 1910–1919, 1900–1909,
1890–1899, 1880–1889, 1870–1879, 1860–1869, 1850–1859,
1840–1849, 1830–1839, 1820–1829, 1810–1819, 1800–1809
Best Books by Year:
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Lists for all books by Number of Ratings:
10,000 to 15,000, 15,000 to 20,000, 20,000 to 25,000, 25,000 to 30,000,
30,000 to 40,000, 40,000 to 50,000, 50,000 to 60,000, 60,000 to 70,000,
70,000 to 80,000, 80,000 to 89,999, 90,000 to 99,999, 100,000 to 149,999,
150,000 to 199,999, 200,000 to 499,999, 500,000 to 999,999, 1,000,000 and more
See also
2000s lists
2000s shelf
Best By Date
Best Fantasy of the 2000s
Best Mystery of the 2000s
Best Non-fiction of the 2000s
Best Picture Books of the 2000s
Best Science Fiction of the 2000s
Most Rated Book by Year
Best Books by Century:
21st, 20th,
19th, 18th, 17th, 16th, 15th,14th, 13th, 12th, 11th, 10th,
9th, 8th, 7th, 6th, 5th, 4th
Best Books by Decade:
2020–2029, 2010–2019, 2000–2009,
1990–1999, 1980–1989, 1970–1979, 1960–1969, 1950–1959,
1940–1949, 1930–1939, 1920–1929, 1910–1919, 1900–1909,
1890–1899, 1880–1889, 1870–1879, 1860–1869, 1850–1859,
1840–1849, 1830–1839, 1820–1829, 1810–1819, 1800–1809
Best Books by Year:
2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Lists for all books by Number of Ratings:
10,000 to 15,000, 15,000 to 20,000, 20,000 to 25,000, 25,000 to 30,000,
30,000 to 40,000, 40,000 to 50,000, 50,000 to 60,000, 60,000 to 70,000,
70,000 to 80,000, 80,000 to 89,999, 90,000 to 99,999, 100,000 to 149,999,
150,000 to 199,999, 200,000 to 499,999, 500,000 to 999,999, 1,000,000 and more
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A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
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For a Few Demons More (The Hollows, #5)
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Kim Harrison (Goodreads Author)
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No Less Than Victory (World War II: 1939-1945, #3)
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 73,166 ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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The Dinner
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Sandstorm (Sigma Force, #1)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 54,155 ratings
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Basket Case
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Carl Hiaasen (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 18,346 ratings
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The Last Witchfinder
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Snuff
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 66,376 ratings
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Queenmaker: A Novel of King David's Queen
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3.83 avg rating — 1,875 ratings
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Man in the Dark
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The Spectacular Now
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3.51 avg rating — 43,834 ratings
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| 1215 |
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City of God
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3.40 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
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Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1)
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Nalini Singh (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 78,283 ratings
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 37,232 ratings
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The Museum of Innocence
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3.78 avg rating — 36,915 ratings
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Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
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Sharon Moalem (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,012 ratings
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
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3.62 avg rating — 4,514 ratings
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Amazonia
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 35,127 ratings
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
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4.14 avg rating — 38,916 ratings
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The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
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4.69 avg rating — 7,217 ratings
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The Darling
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Star Wars: Outbound Flight
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 15,547 ratings
score: 357,
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The Private Patient (Adam Dalgliesh, #14)
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3.81 avg rating — 19,310 ratings
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Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5)
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Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 46,797 ratings
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The Skies of Pern (Pern, #15)
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4.12 avg rating — 16,224 ratings
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Shadow Puppets (The Shadow Series, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 61,637 ratings
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Castaways of the Flying Dutchman (Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, #1)
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Cry No More
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Dragonsblood (Pern, #17)
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Todd McCaffrey (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 9,697 ratings
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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3.95 avg rating — 73,403 ratings
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Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 74,480 ratings
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John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
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David Wong (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 82,673 ratings
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Three Plums in One (Stephanie Plum, #1-3)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 5,041 ratings
score: 355,
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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Grace Lin (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 53,577 ratings
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The Alchemist's Daughter
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Katharine McMahon (Goodreads Author)
3.25 avg rating — 5,057 ratings
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The Collected Stories
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4.25 avg rating — 7,288 ratings
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Skipping Christmas
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 84,533 ratings
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Conspiracy of Fools
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Kurt Eichenwald (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 6,554 ratings
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The Last Time I Was Me
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Cathy Lamb (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 5,125 ratings
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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
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3.92 avg rating — 17,651 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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John Perkins (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 39,257 ratings
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Medicus
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Ruth Downie (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 9,452 ratings
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Second Glance
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 50,185 ratings
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An Unfinished Life
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Mark Spragg (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 4,449 ratings
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The Madonnas of Leningrad
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Debra Dean (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 18,614 ratings
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Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (Ologies, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 9,634 ratings
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Feed
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3.55 avg rating — 67,442 ratings
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Olympos (Ilium, #2)
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3.95 avg rating — 20,347 ratings
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Bangkok 8 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #1)
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John Burdett (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 11,068 ratings
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The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 31,242 ratings
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The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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3.84 avg rating — 23,278 ratings
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Lord Brocktree (Redwall, #13)
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3.99 avg rating — 51,769 ratings
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The Red Tree
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4.50 avg rating — 6,598 ratings
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The Rapture
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3.31 avg rating — 2,479 ratings
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Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
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3.75 avg rating — 11,473 ratings
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Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 17,688 ratings
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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta
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Brian Kolodiejchuk (Editor)
4.18 avg rating — 4,142 ratings
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Washington's Crossing
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4.16 avg rating — 15,213 ratings
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The Last Straw (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #3)
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Jeff Kinney (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 168,419 ratings
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Luna
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3.83 avg rating — 21,989 ratings
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The Warded Man (The Demon Cycle, #1)
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Peter V. Brett (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 130,497 ratings
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Black Hole
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3.85 avg rating — 52,395 ratings
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Kushiel's Mercy (Imriel's Trilogy, #3)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 18,188 ratings
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The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
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4.26 avg rating — 37,892 ratings
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| 1268 |
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So Yesterday
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 11,384 ratings
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Forest Born (The Books of Bayern, #4)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 28,341 ratings
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The White Bone
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3.77 avg rating — 3,769 ratings
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Breath
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How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 55,962 ratings
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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3.87 avg rating — 8,035 ratings
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Jude
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The Twilight Collection
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3.82 avg rating — 47,241 ratings
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Wolf Totem
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4.09 avg rating — 4,965 ratings
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Alone (Detective D.D. Warren, #1)
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Lisa Gardner (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 73,614 ratings
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One False Note (The 39 Clues, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 54,912 ratings
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Small Wonder
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4.03 avg rating — 11,244 ratings
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Full Moon Rising (Riley Jenson Guardian, #1)
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Keri Arthur (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 34,501 ratings
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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4.20 avg rating — 39,829 ratings
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Crossing California
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Adam Langer (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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The Children's Hospital
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3.57 avg rating — 2,982 ratings
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Kushiel's Chosen (Phèdre's Trilogy, #2)
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Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 41,616 ratings
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The Game (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #7)
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Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 15,247 ratings
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An Assembly Such as This (Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman #1)
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Pamela Aidan (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 14,551 ratings
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| 1286 |
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Ever
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 22,037 ratings
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The Tenderness of Wolves
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Jul 04, 2008 07:09PM
I think some of the best books of the decade have been published for children and teens, but this isn't bad in terms of books for adults.
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All four of my favorite books are on here. Well chosen!
I wanted to vote for a few of these books, but unfortunately weren't actually published after 2000.
Removed "House of the Spirits" and "Matilda" from the list as they were definitely not published in the 2000s (not originally anyway). If you see any others that are wrongly categorised (don't have time to go through them all) please don't hesitate to send me a comment and let me know.
How can Beedle the Bard be on here when it's not been published yet?
the books i picked are the only ones i read.
Love the list but Bridget Jones' Diary was published in 96 according to the info on here.
I didn't vote for any book that I haven't read.
deleted memoirs of a geisha since it was written in the '90s, you can vote on it on that list!
The Red Tent was also written in the 90's.
Emily are you vettting the list? I found several more that were first published before 2000..Into Thin Air
White Oleandar
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
Love two out of the three but won't vote for them since they don't fit the criteria as stated. Was that geeky enough?
I removed some books that were not initially published from 2000-2009:Alias Grace
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Also deletedThe Alchemist
Originally published in 1988
Plainsong
Originally published in 1999
Bridget Jones's Diary
Originally published in 1996
just a few more that were originally published in the 90's or earlier.Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body (1992)
Katherine Dunn's Geek Love: A Novel (1989)
Jose Saramago's Blindness (1995)
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (1999)
i actually voted for the Interpreter of Maladies and then realized that it might have not been published 2000 or later.
thank you
I'd like to have voted for The Cave by José Saramago, but I'm told it isn't a book of this decade? It was originally published in 2000, and I believe the English translation is copyright 2002.
Book Review: Nesohc a new version of Jesus
Few books pack superb insightfulness, precise scientific research, wonderful human characterization, verifiable scientific explanations, unsurpassed argumentative dialogue, outstanding innovative views on the life and works of the most influential man in history "Jesus Christ". If you add a mind boggling plot to top it off, you may get a nanometric idea of the reach and wonder of this masterpiece. The book is a marvelous novel with a new twist on the origin, birth, life, miracles, teachings, death and resurrection of Jesus. The novel is very well researched and the plot unfolds in an enjoyable and easy to follow manner which glues you to the book from beginning to end. The protagonists, (Jesus and the disciples), are depicted in a fresh, realistic, humorous and earthly manner befitting of their true nature. The plot, although a personal interpretation of the life of Jesus, is so plausible that it is difficult throw it in the “science fiction” bag. The author presents reasonable alternatives as to the origin of life on earth; the development, nature, and ultimate destination of the human soul; a feasible method for travelling in space, infinitely faster than the speed of light; and many other wonderfully creative insights which provide much fuel for thought.
Although the primary purpose of the book is that of entertainment, the very nature of its content is bound to produce a great deal of introspection in those with an open mind. The author advocates no theories, but merely presents a script which differs from traditional orthodox views. He makes no claim as to the validity of the script, but merely spills a glass which is soaked by the creative and imaginative minds of the readers I highly recommend this book to all audiences. Its fast and easy to follow style will provide many hours of enjoyable and thoughtful entertainment for readers all ages. Its deep philosophical implications make it a worthy mental exercise for analytical individuals interested in philosophy, metaphysics, religion, psychology, and ethics.
Overall, this is a very enjoyable, entertaining, and easy to follow book which provides a banquet for thought.
Amy wrote: "I removed some books that were not initially published from 2000-2009:Alias Grace
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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if you give a mouse a cookie was my favorite book in kindergarden, 22 years ago! i love the newer ones with the pig and the moose. they've proved timeless with kids i work with :)
WOW a lot of you people posted a HUGE message!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this book! It is very sad, really, but with a good ending. I hate that the mother favored her sister so much and then Priscilla had to deal with that even during the depression when they had no place to live, really.
I love Anansi Boys, and I'm really glad to see it on this list.
i guess 3 of the top 5 from this list are highly overrated books.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was published in 1999.
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 way that the Time travellers wife largely appeals to idiots.
28: Twilight and harry potter aren't overrated, its just that they largely appeal to young people in the same way that the Time travellers wife largely appeals to idiots.hahahaha
but seriously... TTTW at no 1? and the popularity of the twilight series really makes me wonder if this website is populated by women between the ages of 15-35....
Angryy0uth wrote: "28: Twilight and harry potter aren't overrated, its just that they largely appeal to young people in the same way that the Time travellers wife largely appeals to idiots.hahahaha
but seriously... ..."
It makes me sick how much people think Twilight should be called "literature."
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 2009 good reads.
Wow, what a complex and complete list!
Have just finished reading Guernica by Dave Boling. Not on this list yet. An epic read; but I wouldn't compare it with "The English Patient"
It prompted me to take a better look at and appreciate Picasso's Guernica.
great list but there are many more great ones not listed.
The Time Traveler's Wife? Seriously?! I have no faith in this list!
I'm just astonished Twilight is only fourth.
Susanna wrote: "I'm just astonished Twilight is only fourth."heh heh heh!
(You are evil).
Kudos! Some of my favorites are on here...but some are misplaced.
porno for marx wrote: "bastard out of carolina is from the early frigging nineties"And it has the correct original publication date. I suspect it was added when it had an incorrect one. Frankly, I'm too tired right now to delete it.
elissa wrote: "I think some of the best books of the decade have been published for children and teens, but this isn't bad in terms of books for adults."Great idea to make a list of children's and teens books... I love books in that genre and would love to see a list!
Amy wrote: "I removed some books that were not initially published from 2000-2009:Alias Grace
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
"
Thanks for keeping the list up, Amy. Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees was also originally published in 1996.
Great list.
Removed:Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Thank you, Susanna!
Mari Anne wrote: "The Red Tent was also written in the 90's."I loved the Rec TEnt Great book
Ditto. A wonderfully imaginative picture of how women in Biblical times lived and felt.
James Baldwin, "Giovanni's Room" was published in the 1950's or 1960's. "The Life and Times of Michael K" was written in the 1980's or 1990's.
If you'll tell me which pages the books in question are on, I'll be happy to remove them.(Giovanni's Room is 1940, and Michael K won the Booker in 1983.)
Twilight? Jodi Picoult? These are some of the books that qualify as the best of the decade? Thanks but no thanks.
My favourite series is the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series!!! They are amazing!!! The thing I love most about them is the mix of Ancient Greek mythology in modern times. I learnt more about the Greeks by reading this series than I ever did at school. After finishing the Harry Potter series I never thought I would find a series as good as HP, but Percy Jackson has topped it. They're adventurous, funny and also has a bit of romance. If you haven't read them yet, you definitely HAVE to. It won't disappoint.
hey guys...does anyone know how to browse books (as opposed to searching for a particular one)? I'm looking for good books to read, and want to browse/sort books in the website by rating...is there a way to see a list of books by rating on this website?
Anyone can add books to this list.
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