Best reads of the decade?

I hope I can make such a thread without it getting deleted....?

So favourite books 2000-2009?

I need some recommendations of things to read.

 

I'm moving this to the Book Discussion forum.

 

Here is a brief list off the top of my head. I haven't read all of these, but I have included books my friends and family thought were good.

The Road and No Country for Old Menby Cormac McCarthy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picault
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Old School by Tobias Wolff

 

^ All of them, and:
The Frog King by Adam Davies
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Saffran Foer
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
after the quake and After Dark by Haruki Murakami
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara
In The Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

 

To add to the great choices here

I'd include
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

 

Any of Neil Gaiman's books

 

The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins
God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielskwi
The Ode Less Travelled - Stephen Fry

All amazing.

 

Thanks people...I'm looking into these. A lot I recognise from film titles.

 

Mentioned above, House of Leaves is probably one of the most important books written in the last decade. Both that and his other book, Only Revolutions will wreck your life in a very good way.

One that's from the 90s, but which I think has really achieved its significance mostly in this decade is David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Probably the most honest book I've ever read. And a very entertaining, if perhaps long, read.

 

Atonement, Ian McEwan.

Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series, Ann Brashares.

There's more, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.