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.
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
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.
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.
