Books of the Decade: The 50 books that defined the decade2001
Given by The Guardian
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The world was rocked by terrorism, climate change became an emergency, celebrity culture moved from our TVs to our bookshelves, and a boy wizard held millions spellbound. Love them or hate them, show more these are the 50 books that defined the decade show less
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| A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother (2003) by Rachel Cusk |
| The Corrections (2001) by Jonathan Franzen |
| Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan |
| Austerlitz (2001) by W. G. Sebald |
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The world was rocked by terrorism, climate change became an emergency, celebrity culture moved from our TVs to our bookshelves, and a boy wizard held millions spellbound. Love them or hate them, these are the 50 books that defined the decade
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/dec/05/books-of-the-noughties
Contains 52 books: three of Barack Obama's books were jointly listed under 2008.
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