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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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The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)
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Drop City
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Anathem
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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Until I Find You
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
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The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
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Austerlitz
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Terrier (Beka Cooper, #1)
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Magic Study (Study, #2)
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Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls, #1)
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Quidditch Through the Ages
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Darkfever (Fever, #1)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
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Lirael (Abhorsen, #2)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
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Five Quarters of the Orange
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
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The Guardian
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
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Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, #2)
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The Inheritance of Loss
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Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
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The Arctic Incident (Artemis Fowl #2)
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Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)
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I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You (Gallagher Girls, #1)
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Ally Carter (Goodreads Author)
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Ironside (Modern Faerie Tales, #3)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
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Eventide (Plainsong, #2)
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The Goose Girl (The Books of Bayern, #1)
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
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This Lullaby
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
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The Camel Club (The Camel Club, #1)
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David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
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The Eternity Code (Artemis Fowl, #3)
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Trickster's Choice (Daughter of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
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Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
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The Nanny Diaries (Nanny, #1)
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Emma McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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Arthur & George
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Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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A Mercy
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Something Blue (Darcy & Rachel, #2)
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Emily Giffin (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 231,534 ratings
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The Tea Rose (The Tea Rose, #1)
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 40,354 ratings
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Lover Unbound (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #5)
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 140,429 ratings
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Prep
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Curtis Sittenfeld (Goodreads Author)
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
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City of Thieves
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The Virgin Blue
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
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The Blind Side
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Playing for Pizza
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 56,230 ratings
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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
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The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
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The Pianist
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Monstrous Regiment (Discworld, #31; Industrial Revolution, #3)
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Olivia (Olivia, #1)
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Sold
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Labyrinth (Languedoc, #1)
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
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Jeff Kinney (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 758,836 ratings
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The March
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Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)
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Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile
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Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, #1)
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Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 159,764 ratings
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The Sugar Queen
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Sarah Addison Allen (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 57,122 ratings
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The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 89,731 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 45,639 ratings
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The Book of Illusions
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3.90 avg rating — 26,424 ratings
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A Northern Light
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Jennifer Donnelly (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 45,610 ratings
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Sharp Objects
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,196,260 ratings
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The Given Day (Coughlin #1)
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Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 28,350 ratings
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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 299,583 ratings
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Nation
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4.11 avg rating — 37,736 ratings
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Thud! (Discworld, #34; City Watch, #7)
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Dear John
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 615,729 ratings
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An Abundance of Katherines
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
3.51 avg rating — 547,218 ratings
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Making Money (Discworld, #36; Moist Von Lipwig, #2)
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The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2)
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A Spot of Bother
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The Amateur Marriage
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
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Digging to America
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
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The Plague of Doves
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Mid Ocean
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The Lost Colony (Artemis Fowl, #5)
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
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The Last Kingdom (The Saxon Stories, #1)
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Bernard Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
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You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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The End of Mr. Y
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Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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Inherent Vice
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
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Max (Maximum Ride, #5)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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Carter Beats the Devil
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Purple Hibiscus
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The King of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #3)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
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A Bend in the Road
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
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Lady Knight (Protector of the Small, #4)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
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A Long Way Down
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Fire Study (Study, #3)
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Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
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The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror (Pine Cove, #3)
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Christopher Moore (Goodreads Author)
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The Lucky One
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
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Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1)
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John Scalzi (Goodreads Author)
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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
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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
"
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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