Books of the Decade: The 50 books that defined the decade

Given by The Guardian

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Books of the Decade The 50 books that defined the decade (2000) - The Guardian
Years:
All, 2000 (51)
WorkYear
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2000
Experience by Martin Amis
2000
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Authorized Edition) by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks
2000
Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
2000
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
2000
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
2000
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk
2000
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
2000
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
2000
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
2000
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
2000
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
2000
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery
2000
Earth: An Intimate History by Richard Fortey
2000
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2000
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
2000
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
2000
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
2000
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2000
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
2000
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
2000
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
2000
No Logo by Naomi Klein
2000
How to Be a Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson
2000
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt
2000
Small Island by Andrea Levy
2000
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James E. Lovelock
2000
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2000
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
2000
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2000
Saturday by Ian McEwan
2000
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2000
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama
2000
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's Promise by Barack Obama
2000
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
2000
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
2000
Landing Light by Don Paterson
2000
Being Jordan: My Autobiography by Katie Price
2000
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
2000
Home by Marilynne Robinson
2000
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross
2000
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
2000
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
2000
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
2000
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
2000
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2000
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale
2000
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
2000
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
2000
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
2000
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright
2000

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