Los Ping Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 (edited) As 2010 is coming up I want to see what books were the best of the decade. Only name one book, the author, and the year so there is not only one person filling out this list. Be creative and pick a book that might not be extremely popular. I'll keep a list on this post. Best Books of the 2000's World War Z - Max Brooks - 2006 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - 2003 The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold- 2002 The Horrific Sufferings of Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred - Carl-Johan Vallgren - 2002 The Plucker: An Ilustrated Novel by Brom - 2005 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 2003 Haunted - Chuck Palahniuk - 2006 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Shadow Of The Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski Sashenka - Simon Montefiore - 2008 Ian McEwan - Atonement - 2001 The Book Thief - Markus Zusak - 2005 Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith Edited November 29, 2009 by Los Ping Quote
Eryk Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon - 2003 Quote
AbielleRose Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold- 2002 Quote
BookJumper Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 It was really hard to choose between my three personal favourites of the 2000's, but here goes my choice before I change my mind: The Horrific Sufferings of Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot, His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred by Carl-Johan Vallgren (2002) Quote
Freewheeling Andy Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 I've surely missed obvious ones, but Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The Road - Cormac McCarthy The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon and I suspect, although I'm only reading it now, so perhaps I need distance to confirm... but I wanted to include some non-fiction Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski Quote
Kell Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 I'm going to go with The Plucker: An Ilustrated Novel by Brom (2005). It's a stunning work and I recommend it to one and all! Quote
Nicola Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 Without a doubt, my favourite book of the 2000's has to be Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (2006) Quote
BookJumper Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 Andy, I think we were meant to pick just one otherwise it's not fair, I wanted to put three down but couldn't! Quote
Freewheeling Andy Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 (edited) OK. One fiction: Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell One non-fiction: The Shadow Of The Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski And Cloud Atlas wins, of these two, although of course it's silly to compare fic with non-fic which is why I want to have one of each. Edited November 28, 2009 by Freewheeling Andy Quote
Book Fiend Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 I'll get in with this before anybody else does, 'The Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger (2003 I believe, although it says 2004 in my copy) Luckily my other favourite book (Captain Corelli's Mandolin) was published before 2000 so not too much deliberation! Quote
Vanwa Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 Gah, I have two... both by the same author though, so in the end it's not too painful to pick just one: Ian McEwan - Atonement. 2001. McEwan has a brilliant way of taking a fairly common situation and making it real and distressing for the reader. (And I read this prior to the screening of the film.) Quote
Ben Posted November 28, 2009 Posted November 28, 2009 The Book Thief. - Markus Zusak. (2005 I believe..) Can't forget this great, tragic novel. Quote
Kylie Posted November 29, 2009 Posted November 29, 2009 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides I could easily pick which books were chosen by Giulia, Andy and Kell before I scrolled down. I think I'm spending too much time here. Quote
chesilbeach Posted November 29, 2009 Posted November 29, 2009 Although I don't give ratings to books I reviews on here or on my blog, I do actually rate them myself, just to give me an at a glance look at how I felt about books when I read them. Going back through all the books I've given five stars to in the last five years (since I started keeping a record of what I'd read), nearly all the books getting the perfect score were written before 1960, so I didn't have much choice for the books I could chose here! However, I'll stop waffling on, and declare my best book of the decade as Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith, which was a beautiful, uplifting, joyful book. Quote
poppyshake Posted December 4, 2009 Posted December 4, 2009 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke Quote
Adonis Posted December 6, 2009 Posted December 6, 2009 One of my favourite books ever. It's so easy to read but captures it's subject matter perfectly. Naive. Super - Erlend Loe (Author), Tor Ketil Solberg (Translator) (2005) This one is funny, well observed and superbly written Apathy and Other Small Victories - Paul Neilan (2006) Quote
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