The Best Books of the 2000s

This is one of the 401 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.

About this list

The Onion AV Club, 30 Books

The Best Books of the 2000s according to the Onion AV club. Includes Fiction and Nonfiction.

This list was originally published in 2009 and was added to this site almost 11 years ago.

Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6849 Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2001 American English
2126 Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 2005 American English
1405 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
5910 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
7933 Pictures At A Revolution Mark Harris 2008 American English
7531 Them Francine du Plessix Gray 2005 French English
1097 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
7397 The Wisdom Of Crowds James Surowiecki 2004 American English
4241 The World Without Us Alan Weisman 2007 American English
197 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
189 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
889 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
1082 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000 Canadian English
324 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
6849 Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold 2001 American English
207 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
1508 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
2578 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
2466 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem 2003 American English
357 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
913 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
993 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
352 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 American English
278 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British, Japanese English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
8071 The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski 2008 American English
3576 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
1979 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
172 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
1226 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English