The Best Books of the 2000s

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The Onion AV Club, 30 Books

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

Voters were: Ellen Wernecke, Vadim Rizov, Donna Bowman, Zack Handlen, Genevieve Koski, Michaelangelo Matos, Samantha Nelson, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, and Todd VanDerWerff

This list was originally published in 2009 and was added to this site over 12 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
11223 Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2001 American English
3233 Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner 2005 American English
1204 Nickel And Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich 2001 American English
8309 Nixonland Rick Perlstein 2008 American English
9982 Pictures At A Revolution Mark Harris 2008 American English
11847 Them Francine du Plessix Gray 2005 French English
3170 The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell 2000 American English
11604 The Wisdom Of Crowds James Surowiecki 2004 American English
10948 The World Without Us Alan Weisman 2007 American English
314 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay Michael Chabon 2000 American English
248 Atonement Ian McEwan 2001 British English
947 Bel Canto Ann Patchett 2001 American English
1261 The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood 2000 Canadian English
396 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz 2007 Dominican English
11223 Carter Beats The Devil Glen David Gold 2001 American English
237 The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001 American English
1812 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon 2003 British English
2585 Empire Falls Richard Russo 2001 American English
3060 The Fortress of Solitude Jonathan Lethem 2003 American English
475 Gilead Marilynne Robinson 2004 American English
1755 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J. K. Rowling 2005 British English
1585 Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Susanna Clarke 2004 British English
418 Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides 2002 American English
266 Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro 2005 British English
290 The Road Cormac McCarthy 2006 American English
9725 The Story Of Edgar Sawtelle David Wroblewski 2008 American English
4931 The Terror Dan Simmons 2007 American English
1675 The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey Niffenegger 2003 American English
221 White Teeth Zadie Smith 2000 British English
1542 The Devil In The White City Erik Larson 2003 American English