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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 Winter Rose (The Tea Rose, #2)
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Love Walked In (Love Walked In, #1)
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The Opal Deception (Artemis Fowl, #4)
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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The Complete Maus
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Small Island
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The Two Princesses of Bamarre (The Two Princesses of Bamarre, #1)
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Gail Carson Levine (Goodreads Author)
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The Day Jesus Rode Into Croydon
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The Feast of the Goat
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Wings (Wings, #1)
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Tree of Smoke
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The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, #2)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
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Spin (Spin, #1)
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Thief of Time (Discworld, #26; Death, #5)
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On the Jellicoe Road
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Melina Marchetta (Goodreads Author)
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright (Goodreads Author)
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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, #1)
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One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress, #2)
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Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)
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Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
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Abhorsen (Abhorsen, #3)
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Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
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Shopaholic Ties the Knot (Shopaholic, #3)
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
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Squire (Protector of the Small, #3)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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The Penelopiad
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
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Knife of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, #11)
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Alexander Hamilton
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Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1)
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)
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Thirteen Moons
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Predator (Kay Scarpetta, #14)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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The Gravedigger's Daughter
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Heart-Shaped Box
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Grave Sight (Harper Connelly, #1)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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A Touch of Dead
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1)
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Bryan Lee O'Malley (Writer, Artist)
4.19 avg rating — 215,287 ratings
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Iron Kissed (Mercy Thompson, #3)
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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
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School's Out—Forever (Maximum Ride, #2)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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The Undomestic Goddess
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 310,777 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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This is Where I Leave You
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When You Reach Me
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Q & A
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4.02 avg rating — 38,086 ratings
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Last Night in Twisted River
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 27,887 ratings
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Trickster's Queen (Daughter of the Lioness, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
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102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
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The Ruins
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3.69 avg rating — 64,741 ratings
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Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)
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Night Watch (Watch, #1)
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The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, #3)
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 22,886 ratings
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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3.83 avg rating — 23,977 ratings
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The Kindly Ones
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4.03 avg rating — 14,841 ratings
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The Raw Shark Texts
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Steven Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 21,470 ratings
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Gods in Alabama
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Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 23,999 ratings
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Page (Protector of the Small, #2)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 51,615 ratings
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The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
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4.23 avg rating — 41,131 ratings
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Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
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Deborah Rodriguez (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 25,682 ratings
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier
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Ann Packer (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 25,322 ratings
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Faefever (Fever, #3)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 107,249 ratings
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Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 113,671 ratings
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The Monsters of Templeton
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Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 22,020 ratings
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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
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4.43 avg rating — 47,086 ratings
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The Likeness
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 177,260 ratings
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Wintergirls
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 125,287 ratings
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Shopaholic Takes Manhattan (Shopaholic, #2)
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Sophie Kinsella (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 126,874 ratings
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Shalimar the Clown
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3.91 avg rating — 14,758 ratings
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Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 80,644 ratings
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Prey
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3.79 avg rating — 184,683 ratings
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Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4)
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J.R. Ward (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 143,579 ratings
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Jesus Land: A Memoir
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Julia Scheeres (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 19,487 ratings
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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 97,097 ratings
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The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 261,491 ratings
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #4)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 42,212 ratings
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
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3.87 avg rating — 41,783 ratings
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
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Nicholas D. Kristof (Goodreads Author)
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Number9Dream
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The Fury / Dark Reunion (The Vampire Diaries, #3-4)
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Eleven Minutes
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
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The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, #2)
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Megan Whalen Turner (Goodreads Author)
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Dreamfever (Fever, #4)
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Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads Author)
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Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #3)
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Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 45,672 ratings
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 146,029 ratings
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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels, #1)
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Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Author)
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Night World, No. 1 (Night World, #1-3)
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The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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Brent Weeks (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 175,621 ratings
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The Time Paradox (Artemis Fowl, #6)
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Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 115,960 ratings
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A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld, #32; Tiffany Aching, #2)
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4.32 avg rating — 79,323 ratings
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Belong to Me (Love Walked In, #2)
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Marisa de los Santos (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 30,888 ratings
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Soulless (Parasol Protectorate, #1)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 113,649 ratings
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Explosion in Paris
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The Children of Húrin
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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.
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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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