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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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Lullaby
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Grip of the Shadow Plague (Fablehaven, #3)
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
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The Redbreast (Harry Hole, #3)
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The Lace Reader (Salem, #1)
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Mirror Mirror
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Messenger (The Giver, #3)
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Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9)
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The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid, #1)
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
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Hunger (Gone, #2)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
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Destined for an Early Grave (Night Huntress, #4)
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Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Samurai
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Remarkable Creatures
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Dry
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Augusten Burroughs (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Detective (Elvis Cole, #9)
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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Steven Johnson (Goodreads Author)
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Remainder
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Rooftops of Tehran
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Gentlemen and Players (Malbry, #1)
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Joanne Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Next
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The Dead Girls' Dance (The Morganville Vampires, #2)
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At Grave's End (Night Huntress, #3)
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Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)
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The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
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Angelica and Francesca
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Eighth Grade Bites (The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod, #1)
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Heather Brewer (Goodreads Author)
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Night World, No. 3 (Night World, #7-9)
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
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The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2)
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The Speed of Dark
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Home (Gilead, #2)
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As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
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Just After Sunset
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3.88 avg rating — 59,794 ratings
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Blonde
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
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Liu Cixin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 473,834 ratings
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Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #1)
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The Golem's Eye (Bartimaeus, #2)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 96,307 ratings
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SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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Dark Fire (Matthew Shardlake, #2)
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The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)
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Lauren Willig (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 23,532 ratings
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Midnight Alley (The Morganville Vampires, #3)
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Book of the Dead (Kay Scarpetta, #15)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 35,255 ratings
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The Master Butchers Singing Club
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Out Stealing Horses
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The Millennium Trilogy (Millennium Trilogy, #1-3)
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Night World, No. 2 (Night World, #4-6)
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Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey, #1)
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Deanna Raybourn (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 27,377 ratings
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Carpe Corpus (The Morganville Vampires, #6)
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Haunted
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 110,334 ratings
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Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
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Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 137,467 ratings
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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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Cast in Shadow (Chronicles of Elantra, #1)
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The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
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Tempted (House of Night, #6)
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P.C. Cast (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 173,322 ratings
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 55,850 ratings
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The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld, #28)
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4.08 avg rating — 51,836 ratings
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Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
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Jeff Lindsay (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 215,741 ratings
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Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
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André Aciman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 582,538 ratings
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Beastly (Beastly, #1)
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Alex Flinn (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 178,328 ratings
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Leviathan (Leviathan, #1)
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Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 94,420 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 91,222 ratings
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Ilium (Ilium, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 32,034 ratings
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The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy #3)
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 77,680 ratings
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Deadly Decisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
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Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 39,060 ratings
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Crossroads of Twilight (The Wheel of Time, #10)
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The Warrior Heir (The Heir Chronicles, #1)
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Cinda Williams Chima (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 54,844 ratings
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Min kamp 1 (Min kamp, #1)
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The Twilight Saga
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Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
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Toni Weschler (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
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The Gathering
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
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Winter's Bone
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
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A.J. Jacobs (Goodreads Author)
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The Truth: Stage Adaptation
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Stephen Briggs (Adaptation)
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Anita Diamant's The Red Tent: A Reader's Guide
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Thunderstruck
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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A Prisoner of Birth
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
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Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly, #2)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues, #1)
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Rick Riordan (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 87,852 ratings
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Night Fall (John Corey, #3)
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The Merchant of Death (Pendragon, #1)
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D.J. MacHale (Goodreads Author)
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Flags of Our Fathers
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The Scar (New Crobuzon, #2)
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China Miéville (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 34,385 ratings
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The Forgotten Man (Elvis Cole, #10)
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The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, #4)
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James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
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The People of Sparks (Book of Ember, #2)
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An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly, #3)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
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Fool's Fate (Tawny Man, #3)
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Robin Hobb (Goodreads Author)
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Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #5)
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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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