2000s decade
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- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
1
door Mark Haddon
44,264 leden
1,327 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 3
Score 13.28
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
2
door Susanna Clarke
26,957 leden
772 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 2
Score 13.44
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
- 4 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Set in an alternative England during the Napoleonic wars, Clarke envisages a world in which magic is a reality, albeit practiced in a mundane, academic fashion. -ign.com
3
door Ian McEwan
26,456 leden
626 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 8
Score 8.14
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:04 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: A girl with a big imagination thinks she sees something. She is wrong, but she sticks to her guns. Lives are ruined. As an old woman, she wonders if she can repair her irreparable mistake. -pastemagazine.com
4
door Jeffrey Eugenides
27,122 leden
630 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 11
Score 7.27
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: A strange gender changing, time spanning complicated novel. Past and present combine to give this novel literary force. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
5
door Michael Chabon
18,768 leden
412 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 17
Score 6.15
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Two nice, mid-20th-century Jewish boys go to work in the nascent comic book industry, where the dreams and nightmares of the real world manifest themselves in the extravagant guise of entertainment for children. This buoyant tragicomic adventure story remains one of the most persuasive and gorgeously written depictions (and vindications) of the way popular culture transfigures our lived experience to become the modern-day equivalent of myth and folklore. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
6
door J. K. Rowling
96,407 leden
1,564 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 29
Score 4.82
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
7
door Junot Díaz
13,066 leden
485 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 10
Score 7.38
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the book follows Oscar Wao, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey. The book deals with themes of isolation and nostalgia while blending comedy and tragedy. -dailyiowan.com
8
door Kazuo Ishiguro
22,792 leden
938 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 9
Score 7.57
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Kath, a seemingly ordinary British girl, goes to a special boarding school where she and her friends are groomed for a special fate while enjoying and suffering the loves and betrayals that come to young people everywhere. This odd, heartbreaking novel unfurls age-old conundrums about what it means to be a person; about the grievous sin of treating anyone, however unexceptional, as the means to an end; and about the unfathomable future that awaits each and every one of us. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
9
door Khaled Hosseini
52,747 leden
1,300 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 1
Score 14.31
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 12:08 PM
- 5 Members
- dara85, bergg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy
10
door Yann Martel
43,546 leden
1,013 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 22
Score 5.77
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
11
door Marilynne Robinson
10,809 leden
363 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 18
Score 6.07
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Following letters written by Rev. John Ames, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize centers on the memories and legacy of his life. Taking place in fictional Gilead, Iowa, Robinson explores themes of religion, family, love, and doubt. -dailyiowan.com
12
door Dave Eggers
2,362 leden
30 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 13
Score 6.89
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- bergg: A Memoir written by Dave Eggers recounting the events leading to his current adult life through the death of his mother due to Stomach cancer and also the death of his father from lung cancer. Becoming the soul caretaker of his younger sibling results is Dave maturing beyond his years which eventually leads to his need to be irresponsible and reckless mostly through sex and alcohol.
13
door J. K. Rowling
100,829 leden
860 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 41
Score 3.6
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
14
door Audrey Niffenegger
39,447 leden
1,271 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 35
Score 3.89
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
15
door J. K. Rowling
101,211 leden
929 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 46
Score 3.45
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
16
door Alice Sebold
35,847 leden
939 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 37
Score 3.79
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
17
door J. K. Rowling
102,213 leden
878 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 48
Score 3.32
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
18
door Markus Zusak
44,755 leden
2,121 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 14
Score 6.53
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
19
door Jonathan Safran Foer
14,223 leden
266 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 43
Score 3.57
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
20
door Peter Carey
4,231 leden
79 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 25
Score 4.99
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Retelling the story of Australian folk hero Ned Kelly where he writes the story for his daughter. Although set in Australia, you could say this is one of the best Westerns in a while. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
21
door Khaled Hosseini
30,270 leden
894 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 6
Score 8.37
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 4 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Recounts the lives and experiences of two Afghan women Laila and Mariam starting with their separate lives as children and how they came to be best friends as two wives of a local shoe maker named Rasheed. During a time of war, poverty, gender issues, and abuse, this creatively written novel still offers a bit of hope.
22
door Neil Gaiman
33,585 leden
931 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 21
Score 5.81
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- bergg: America is no place for a divinity. Our soil isn’t fertile that way — myths don’t thrive the way they did in the old world. Reading American Gods, you can see why it takes a foreigner — Gaiman’s a Brit — to see what is invisible to the natives: the old deities scratching out a seedy living all around us — Norse, Slavic, Irish, Egyptian, voodoo, Egyptian — brought over by generations of immigrants and then left to die. Together they re-enact the old myths here on our barren soil, and Gaiman shows us that, even here, they still have their old power. -entertainment.time.com
23
door Cormac McCarthy
11,060 leden
292 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 24
Score 5.15
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
24
door J. K. Rowling
106,946 leden
981 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 61
Score 2.92
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
25
160 leden
2 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 62
Score 2.91
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
26
door Ann Patchett
13,192 leden
457 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 30
Score 4.77
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: tells the tale of fifty-nine people that were held hostage in an unnamed country in South America. The hostages, which include international ambassadors, Japanese businessmen, an opera singer, and local government officials, had gathered together to celebrate Katsumi Hosokawa's birthday. Hosokawa was being courted by local politicians to build a plant in their country. Bel Canto isn't the usual blood-and-guts tale of a hostage situation; instead, the novel focuses on the various hostages and terrorists and the relationships that grow amongst them all. -Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, cmlibrary.org
27
door Margaret Atwood
16,996 leden
536 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 20
Score 5.94
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 09:31 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
28
door Joan Didion
10,299 leden
290 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 49
Score 3.24
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- bergg: In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." (summary from ISBN 159887005X)
29
6,895 leden
296 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 12
Score 7.21
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: The Biafran War of the late 1960s is seen through the eyes of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy, and the beautiful, passionate twin sisters Olanna and Kainene. This stunning piece of writing won the 2007 Orange Prize. -aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Suzanne Collins
64,341 leden
3,479 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 50
Score 3.19
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
31
door Suzanne Collins
49,140 leden
1,791 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 51
Score 3.17
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
32
door J. K. Rowling
110,179 leden
993 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 71
Score 2.7
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
33
door Philip Pullman
23,588 leden
407 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 55
Score 3.13
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:15 PM
34
door Stieg Larsson
43,144 leden
1,747 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 26
Score 4.93
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:32 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
35
door Aravind Adiga
9,577 leden
423 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 15
Score 6.43
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Aravind Adiga on The White Tiger “The White Tiger is set in one of the fastest-changing societies on Earth — modern-day India — but the story it tells is an old one: of a man’s quest to be free. One afternoon I was in the zoo in New Delhi, and saw a white tiger in its cage, and I thought, ‘A man who is prepared to do anything for his freedom — sacrifice his family, kill another man — would be as rare as that animal” -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Stieg Larsson
25,270 leden
725 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 27
Score 4.89
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:37 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
37
door Margaret Atwood
16,470 leden
384 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 19
Score 6.07
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
38
door Richard Russo
8,773 leden
182 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 23
Score 5.67
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Much of America made it out of the 20th century badly equipped to deal with the 21st. Richard Russo’s Empire Falls is set in just such a place, a rust-belt Maine town that’s kept going even though the industry that led to its creation can no longer sustain it. Russo brought his by-then-familiar command of memorable characters and comic moments to a novel more ambitious than any he’d attempted before. The book captures a time and place unnerved by a future that offers no reassuring promises of a better tomorrow beyond the comfort its inhabitants can give each other. -avclub.com
39
door Diane Setterfield
17,183 leden
910 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 33
Score 4.44
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Verklaringen
- bergg: ...a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut novel (released in 2006), for she makes the words come to life with such skill that some passages even gave me chills. -Erin Miller
40
door Stieg Larsson
30,421 leden
930 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 31
Score 4.76
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:35 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
41
door Rick Riordan
31,578 leden
1,242 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 63
Score 2.89
Toegevoegd 2014-01-25, 08:44 PM
42
door Mary Ann Shaffer
19,358 leden
1,246 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 64
Score 2.88
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
43
door Bill Bryson
23,208 leden
398 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 65
Score 2.87
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Bryson, author of bestselling comic travelogues, bravely journeyed beyond his familiar territory to attempt a layperson’s guide to science.He manages to convey such subjects as the origins of the Universe with integrity, and without sacrificing his familiar humour. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
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door Lynne Truss
15,643 leden
333 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 66
Score 2.86
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- bergg: Every so often there comes along a book that we all feel we have to read to be better educated. Rarely are such books as beguiling as Truss’s punctuation guide, which, amazingly, made us laugh while we learnt about semi-colons. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
45
door Andrea Levy
3,994 leden
140 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 68
Score 2.81
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Verklaringen
- bergg: A novel about racism, prejudice and injustice in the post war years in London as Jamaicans, escaping economic hardship, move to the Mother Country. Told from four characters’ points of view, it deserves all the accolade and prizes it has received. Powerful yet light in touch, humorous yet high in drama, it is a most rewarding and touching read. Won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 and on the 25th Jan 2005 the Whitbread 2004 overall. -www.lovereading4kids.co.uk
46
door Stephenie Meyer
58,219 leden
2,264 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 95
Score 1.4
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
47
door Dan Brown
70,207 leden
1,305 besprekingen
½ 3.5
Algemene Rangorde 115
Score 1.24
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
48
door Stephenie Meyer
40,441 leden
1,036 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 116
Score 1.22
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
49
door Stephenie Meyer
42,860 leden
827 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 117
Score 1.19
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
50
door Stephenie Meyer
46,705 leden
1,047 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 118
Score 1.17
Toegevoegd 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM