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2000s Books
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 253 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,161,597 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 249 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,768,416 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 244 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,084,284 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 241 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,633,199 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,814,316 ratings — published 2008
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.85 — 845,241 ratings — published 2005
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028,432 ratings — published 2006
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 171 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,116,970 ratings — published 2009
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 163 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,511,727 ratings — published 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,589,145 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 161 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,857,032 ratings — published 2005
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,257,250 ratings — published 2005
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,746,391 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,221 ratings — published 2003
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.10 — 988,015 ratings — published 2001
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,428,027 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,161 ratings — published 2002
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,164 ratings — published 2001
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 113 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,115,922 ratings — published 2006
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 113 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.17 — 788,337 ratings — published 2005
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 112 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,982,199 ratings — published 2007
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,913 ratings — published 2002
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 109 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.55 — 842,399 ratings — published 2000
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 109 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,854,069 ratings — published 2003
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 107 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,862,844 ratings — published 2008
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.01 — 266,648 ratings — published 2004
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,475 ratings — published 2000
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,406,826 ratings — published 2005
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,063 ratings — published 2002
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,381,871 ratings — published 2000
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.31 — 714,512 ratings — published 2001
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,135 ratings — published 2004
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,934 ratings — published 2007
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,001,774 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,438 ratings — published 2007
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.65 — 368,577 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,739,153 ratings — published 2005
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,456,175 ratings — published 2002
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,209 ratings — published 2003
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.08 — 486,036 ratings — published 2006
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,211,503 ratings — published 2006
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,107 ratings — published 2000
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,407 ratings — published 2001
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.26 — 982,644 ratings — published 2006
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,136 ratings — published 2000
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.97 — 434,447 ratings — published 2005
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,093 ratings — published 2000
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.07 — 201,277 ratings — published 2006
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.17 — 244,227 ratings — published 2005
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 76 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.03 — 511,058 ratings — published 2008
“The lack of distinction between the real and the virtual is the obsession of our age. Everything in our current affairs attests to this, not to mention the big cinematic productions: The Truman Show, Total Recall, Existenz, Matrix, etc.
This question has always been there behind literature and philosophy, but it has been present metaphorically, as it were, implicitly, through the filter of discourse. The 'encoding/decoding' of reality was done by discourse, that is to say, by a highly complex medium, never leaving room for a head-on truth.
The encoding/decoding of our reality is done by technology. Only what is produced by this technical effect acquires visible reality. And it does so at the cost of a simplification that no longer has anything to do with language or with the slightest ambivalence and which, therefore, puts an end to this subtle lack of distinction between the real and the virtual, as subtle as the lack of distinction between good and evil. Through special effects, everything acquires an operational self-evidence, a spectacular reality that is, properly speaking, the reign of simulation. What the directors of these films have not realized (any more than the simulationist artists of New York in the eighties) is that simulation is a hypothesis, a game that turns reality itself into one eventuality among others.”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
This question has always been there behind literature and philosophy, but it has been present metaphorically, as it were, implicitly, through the filter of discourse. The 'encoding/decoding' of reality was done by discourse, that is to say, by a highly complex medium, never leaving room for a head-on truth.
The encoding/decoding of our reality is done by technology. Only what is produced by this technical effect acquires visible reality. And it does so at the cost of a simplification that no longer has anything to do with language or with the slightest ambivalence and which, therefore, puts an end to this subtle lack of distinction between the real and the virtual, as subtle as the lack of distinction between good and evil. Through special effects, everything acquires an operational self-evidence, a spectacular reality that is, properly speaking, the reign of simulation. What the directors of these films have not realized (any more than the simulationist artists of New York in the eighties) is that simulation is a hypothesis, a game that turns reality itself into one eventuality among others.”
― Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004
“The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly because it spent months and months electing its new leader. I think the Labour party should, for one thing, stress much more that for most people in the past 13 years, the period was not one of collapse into chaos but actually one where the situation improved, and particularly in areas such as schools, hospitals and a variety of other cultural achievements—so the idea that somehow or other it all needs to be taken down and ground into the dust is not valid. I think we need to defend what most people think basically needs defending and that is the provision of some form of welfare from the cradle to the grave.”
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