198 books
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129 voters
2000s Books
Showing 1-50 of 53,925
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 252 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,162,026 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 248 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,768,761 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 243 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,084,634 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 240 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,633,522 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 219 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,815,243 ratings — published 2008
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.85 — 845,367 ratings — published 2005
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 178 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028,526 ratings — published 2006
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 171 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,117,418 ratings — published 2009
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by (shelved 163 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,511,873 ratings — published 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,589,220 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 161 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,857,275 ratings — published 2005
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,257,678 ratings — published 2005
Life of Pi (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,746,462 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,495 ratings — published 2003
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.10 — 988,053 ratings — published 2001
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,428,212 ratings — published 2005
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.12 — 544,224 ratings — published 2002
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,188 ratings — published 2001
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 113 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.17 — 788,374 ratings — published 2005
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 112 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,116,047 ratings — published 2006
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.13 — 777,969 ratings — published 2002
Eclipse (The Twilight Saga, #3)
by (shelved 111 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,982,307 ratings — published 2007
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 109 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.55 — 842,443 ratings — published 2000
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 108 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,854,098 ratings — published 2003
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 107 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,862,951 ratings — published 2008
Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.01 — 266,660 ratings — published 2004
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.09 — 198,516 ratings — published 2000
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,407,123 ratings — published 2005
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,077 ratings — published 2002
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by (shelved 103 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,382,025 ratings — published 2000
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.31 — 714,574 ratings — published 2001
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.87 — 254,153 ratings — published 2004
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.89 — 277,942 ratings — published 2007
The Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,001,890 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,598 ratings — published 2007
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.65 — 368,741 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,739,245 ratings — published 2005
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,456,228 ratings — published 2002
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.00 — 286,224 ratings — published 2003
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.08 — 486,138 ratings — published 2006
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,211,625 ratings — published 2006
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,114 ratings — published 2000
The Corrections (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.84 — 197,420 ratings — published 2001
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.26 — 982,692 ratings — published 2006
White Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.79 — 174,146 ratings — published 2000
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.97 — 434,456 ratings — published 2005
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as 2000s)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,098 ratings — published 2000
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.07 — 201,287 ratings — published 2006
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.17 — 244,263 ratings — published 2005
The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Hogwarts Library, #3)
by (shelved 76 times as 2000s)
avg rating 4.03 — 511,071 ratings — published 2008
“Back in the early 2000s you were called a freak, loser, virgin, nerd or weirdo by women for using the internet. Now look at them.”
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
― 94,000 Wasps in a Trench Coat
“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












