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2000s decade

Description: Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

57,908 members

1,371 reviews

4.2

5 Members: dara85, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

47,834 members

1,394 reviews

3.9

4 Members: dara85, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

by Susanna Clarke

29,736 members

838 reviews

3.9

3 Members: cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

33,932 members

933 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, ahef1963, kara.shamy

5

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

by Marjane Satrapi

11,414 members

379 reviews

4.2

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

17,833 members

356 reviews

3.8

2 Members: cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,870 members

316 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

8

47,391 members

1,049 reviews

3.9

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

26,675 members

1,015 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

48,118 members

1,819 reviews

4

3 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

11,742 members

231 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, kara.shamy

12

by Cormac McCarthy

38,784 members

1,509 reviews

4.1

2 Members: Bretzky1, kara.shamy

13

by Jeffrey Eugenides

29,019 members

660 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

14

The White Tiger

by Aravind Adiga

10,365 members

442 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

15

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2,565 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

14,421 members

519 reviews

3.8

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

17

28,717 members

663 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

18

by Markus Zusak

52,142 members

2,236 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

19

Then We Came to the End

by Joshua Ferris

4,767 members

228 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

20

The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood

17,742 members

392 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

21

by Margaret Atwood

18,762 members

577 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

22

A Long Way Down

9,058 members

198 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

23

by Richard Russo

9,246 members

191 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

24

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

by Michael Chabon

20,348 members

428 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

25

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,301 members

61 reviews

3.8

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

26

Heart-Shaped Box

7,669 members

386 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

27

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters

5,617 members

357 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Marilynne Robinson

13,380 members

416 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

29

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

76,349 members

3,638 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

30

The Amber Spyglass

by Philip Pullman

25,889 members

424 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

by Suzanne Collins

59,225 members

1,901 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

32

The Lightning Thief

by Rick Riordan

40,438 members

1,332 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

12,686 members

322 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

34

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

by Stieg Larsson

28,023 members

772 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

35

The Girl Who Played with Fire

by Stieg Larsson

33,618 members

973 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

36

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,595 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

37

by Ann Patchett

14,422 members

482 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

38

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

18,309 members

930 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy

39

by Roberto Bolaño

7,725 members

212 reviews

4.1

Member: Bretzky1

40

The Year of the Flood

by Margaret Atwood

8,160 members

382 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

41

by Michael Cunningham

2,085 members

49 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

42

The Emperor's Children

by Claire Messud

3,733 members

105 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

The Sealed Letter

by Emma Donoghue

965 members

47 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

44

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

30,860 members

1,104 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris

22,335 members

384 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

46

A Storm of Swords

by George R. R. Martin

28,063 members

479 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,339 members

65 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

48

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

108,323 members

1,639 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

49

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,298 members

392 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

50

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger

42,071 members

1,313 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

51

The Lovely Bones

by Alice Sebold

38,700 members

973 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

52

8,033 members

115 reviews

3.1

Member: kara.shamy

53

The Polysyllabic Spree

2,192 members

76 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

54

Shakespeare Wrote for Money

642 members

28 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

55

Everything Is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

15,040 members

278 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

56

Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

867 members

35 reviews

3.9

Member: kara.shamy

57

Every Secret Thing

by Laura Lippman

1,096 members

33 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

58

The Year of Magical Thinking

12,109 members

329 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

59

by David Mitchell

19,579 members

717 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

60

3,980 members

97 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

61

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

by J. K. Rowling

113,548 members

933 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

62

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Revised Edition

by Barack Obama

7,092 members

126 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

63

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

by Barack Obama

10,215 members

176 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

64

by Joseph O'Neill

3,582 members

158 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: kara.shamy

65

by Louise Penny

7,841 members

472 reviews

3.8

Member: kara.shamy

66

Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

by Francine Prose

4,068 members

103 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

67

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

by J. K. Rowling

112,997 members

1,001 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

68

by Francine Prose

550 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kara.shamy

69

by Francine Prose

1,067 members

32 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: kara.shamy

70

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

21,225 members

1,307 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

71

A Short History of Nearly Everything

25,548 members

430 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

72

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

16,652 members

343 reviews

3.8

Member: ahef1963

73

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

by J. K. Rowling

115,541 members

960 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

74

4,257 members

146 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

75

by George Saunders

2,686 members

65 reviews

4

Member: kara.shamy

76

by W. G. Sebald

4,772 members

117 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

77

by Sarah Waters

8,629 members

310 reviews

4.1

Member: kara.shamy

78

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright

3,950 members

85 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: kara.shamy

79

The Plot Against America

9,903 members

236 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kara.shamy

80

The Line of Beauty

by Alan Hollinghurst

5,002 members

118 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

81

Tree of Smoke: A Novel

by Denis Johnson

2,715 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: kara.shamy

82

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

121,839 members

1,079 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

83

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

293 members

2 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

84

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

by J. K. Rowling

125,323 members

1,088 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda

85

by Jim Harrison

529 members

9 reviews

3.8

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Started: bergg
January 2014
Type: Numbered

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