2000s decade
- Descripción
- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
1
por Mark Haddon
44,302 miembros
1,328 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 3
Puntuacion 13.28
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 4 Members
- dara85, bergg, cej1027, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: First person narrative from a 15 year old autistic who is trying to find a dog murderer. A insightful look into the mindset of persons with autism and the difficulty they have with normal situations. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
2
por Susanna Clarke
26,982 miembros
775 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 2
Puntuacion 13.44
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
- 4 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Set in an alternative England during the Napoleonic wars, Clarke envisages a world in which magic is a reality, albeit practiced in a mundane, academic fashion. -ign.com
3
por Ian McEwan
26,479 miembros
627 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 8
Puntuacion 8.14
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:04 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: A girl with a big imagination thinks she sees something. She is wrong, but she sticks to her guns. Lives are ruined. As an old woman, she wonders if she can repair her irreparable mistake. -pastemagazine.com
4
27,134 miembros
631 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 11
Puntuacion 7.27
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: A strange gender changing, time spanning complicated novel. Past and present combine to give this novel literary force. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
5
por Michael Chabon
18,783 miembros
414 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 17
Puntuacion 6.15
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Two nice, mid-20th-century Jewish boys go to work in the nascent comic book industry, where the dreams and nightmares of the real world manifest themselves in the extravagant guise of entertainment for children. This buoyant tragicomic adventure story remains one of the most persuasive and gorgeously written depictions (and vindications) of the way popular culture transfigures our lived experience to become the modern-day equivalent of myth and folklore. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
6
por J. K. Rowling
96,495 miembros
1,565 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 29
Puntuacion 4.82
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
7
por Junot Díaz
13,081 miembros
487 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 10
Puntuacion 7.38
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the book follows Oscar Wao, an overweight Dominican boy growing up in New Jersey. The book deals with themes of isolation and nostalgia while blending comedy and tragedy. -dailyiowan.com
8
por Kazuo Ishiguro
22,812 miembros
938 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 9
Puntuacion 7.57
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Kath, a seemingly ordinary British girl, goes to a special boarding school where she and her friends are groomed for a special fate while enjoying and suffering the loves and betrayals that come to young people everywhere. This odd, heartbreaking novel unfurls age-old conundrums about what it means to be a person; about the grievous sin of treating anyone, however unexceptional, as the means to an end; and about the unfathomable future that awaits each and every one of us. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
9
por Khaled Hosseini
52,781 miembros
1,300 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 1
Puntuacion 14.31
Añadido 2014-01-25, 12:08 PM
- 5 Members
- dara85, bergg, Bretzky1, ahef1963, kara.shamy
10
por Yann Martel
43,576 miembros
1,013 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 22
Puntuacion 5.77
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
11
10,819 miembros
363 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 18
Puntuacion 6.07
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Following letters written by Rev. John Ames, this winner of the Pulitzer Prize centers on the memories and legacy of his life. Taking place in fictional Gilead, Iowa, Robinson explores themes of religion, family, love, and doubt. -dailyiowan.com
12
por Dave Eggers
2,366 miembros
30 reseñas
½ 3.5
Ranking Global 13
Puntuacion 6.89
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- bergg: A Memoir written by Dave Eggers recounting the events leading to his current adult life through the death of his mother due to Stomach cancer and also the death of his father from lung cancer. Becoming the soul caretaker of his younger sibling results is Dave maturing beyond his years which eventually leads to his need to be irresponsible and reckless mostly through sex and alcohol.
13
por J. K. Rowling
100,902 miembros
860 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 41
Puntuacion 3.6
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
14
39,462 miembros
1,271 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 35
Puntuacion 3.89
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
15
por J. K. Rowling
101,298 miembros
929 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 46
Puntuacion 3.45
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
16
por Alice Sebold
35,870 miembros
939 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 37
Puntuacion 3.79
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
17
por J. K. Rowling
102,324 miembros
881 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 48
Puntuacion 3.32
Añadido 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
18
por Markus Zusak
44,810 miembros
2,125 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 14
Puntuacion 6.53
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
19
14,238 miembros
266 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 43
Puntuacion 3.57
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
20
por Peter Carey
4,235 miembros
79 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 25
Puntuacion 4.99
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:11 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Retelling the story of Australian folk hero Ned Kelly where he writes the story for his daughter. Although set in Australia, you could say this is one of the best Westerns in a while. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
21
por Khaled Hosseini
30,292 miembros
895 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 6
Puntuacion 8.37
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 4 Members
- dara85, bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Recounts the lives and experiences of two Afghan women Laila and Mariam starting with their separate lives as children and how they came to be best friends as two wives of a local shoe maker named Rasheed. During a time of war, poverty, gender issues, and abuse, this creatively written novel still offers a bit of hope.
22
por Neil Gaiman
33,588 miembros
932 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 21
Puntuacion 5.81
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- bergg: America is no place for a divinity. Our soil isn’t fertile that way — myths don’t thrive the way they did in the old world. Reading American Gods, you can see why it takes a foreigner — Gaiman’s a Brit — to see what is invisible to the natives: the old deities scratching out a seedy living all around us — Norse, Slavic, Irish, Egyptian, voodoo, Egyptian — brought over by generations of immigrants and then left to die. Together they re-enact the old myths here on our barren soil, and Gaiman shows us that, even here, they still have their old power. -entertainment.time.com
23
por Cormac McCarthy
11,071 miembros
292 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 24
Puntuacion 5.15
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
24
por J. K. Rowling
107,041 miembros
984 reseñas
½ 4.4
Ranking Global 61
Puntuacion 2.92
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
25
162 miembros
2 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 62
Puntuacion 2.91
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
26
por Ann Patchett
13,208 miembros
459 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 30
Puntuacion 4.77
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: tells the tale of fifty-nine people that were held hostage in an unnamed country in South America. The hostages, which include international ambassadors, Japanese businessmen, an opera singer, and local government officials, had gathered together to celebrate Katsumi Hosokawa's birthday. Hosokawa was being courted by local politicians to build a plant in their country. Bel Canto isn't the usual blood-and-guts tale of a hostage situation; instead, the novel focuses on the various hostages and terrorists and the relationships that grow amongst them all. -Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, cmlibrary.org
27
por Margaret Atwood
17,013 miembros
536 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 20
Puntuacion 5.94
Añadido 2014-01-25, 09:31 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
28
por Joan Didion
10,300 miembros
290 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 49
Puntuacion 3.24
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: In this intensely personal, deeply moving account, the author exposes the layers and facets of her life over a year of dramatic and unexpected events. Her daughter's serious illness and her husband's sudden death "cut loose any fixed idea I had about death, about illness, about probability and luck ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself." (summary from ISBN 159887005X)
29
6,901 miembros
296 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 12
Puntuacion 7.21
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: The Biafran War of the late 1960s is seen through the eyes of Ugwu, a 13-year-old peasant houseboy, and the beautiful, passionate twin sisters Olanna and Kainene. This stunning piece of writing won the 2007 Orange Prize. -aggsliterature.wordpress.com
30
por Suzanne Collins
64,434 miembros
3,483 reseñas
½ 4.3
Ranking Global 50
Puntuacion 3.19
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
31
por Suzanne Collins
49,089 miembros
1,792 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 51
Puntuacion 3.17
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:20 PM
32
por J. K. Rowling
110,282 miembros
996 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 71
Puntuacion 2.7
Añadido 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
33
por Philip Pullman
23,601 miembros
407 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 55
Puntuacion 3.13
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:15 PM
34
por Stieg Larsson
43,177 miembros
1,748 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 26
Puntuacion 4.93
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:32 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
35
por Aravind Adiga
9,590 miembros
423 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 15
Puntuacion 6.43
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:19 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Aravind Adiga on The White Tiger “The White Tiger is set in one of the fastest-changing societies on Earth — modern-day India — but the story it tells is an old one: of a man’s quest to be free. One afternoon I was in the zoo in New Delhi, and saw a white tiger in its cage, and I thought, ‘A man who is prepared to do anything for his freedom — sacrifice his family, kill another man — would be as rare as that animal” -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
36
por Stieg Larsson
25,296 miembros
726 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 27
Puntuacion 4.89
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:37 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
37
por Margaret Atwood
16,476 miembros
384 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 19
Puntuacion 6.07
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:16 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
38
por Richard Russo
8,773 miembros
182 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 23
Puntuacion 5.67
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Much of America made it out of the 20th century badly equipped to deal with the 21st. Richard Russo’s Empire Falls is set in just such a place, a rust-belt Maine town that’s kept going even though the industry that led to its creation can no longer sustain it. Russo brought his by-then-familiar command of memorable characters and comic moments to a novel more ambitious than any he’d attempted before. The book captures a time and place unnerved by a future that offers no reassuring promises of a better tomorrow beyond the comfort its inhabitants can give each other. -avclub.com
39
17,190 miembros
910 reseñas
4
Ranking Global 33
Puntuacion 4.44
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
- Explicaciones
- bergg: ...a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut novel (released in 2006), for she makes the words come to life with such skill that some passages even gave me chills. -Erin Miller
40
por Stieg Larsson
30,447 miembros
931 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 31
Puntuacion 4.76
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:35 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
41
por Rick Riordan
31,616 miembros
1,244 reseñas
4.1
Ranking Global 63
Puntuacion 2.89
Añadido 2014-01-25, 08:44 PM
42
por Mary Ann Shaffer
19,375 miembros
1,246 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 64
Puntuacion 2.88
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
43
por Bill Bryson
23,225 miembros
398 reseñas
4.2
Ranking Global 65
Puntuacion 2.87
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:27 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Bryson, author of bestselling comic travelogues, bravely journeyed beyond his familiar territory to attempt a layperson’s guide to science.He manages to convey such subjects as the origins of the Universe with integrity, and without sacrificing his familiar humour. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
44
por Lynne Truss
15,656 miembros
333 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 66
Puntuacion 2.86
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: Every so often there comes along a book that we all feel we have to read to be better educated. Rarely are such books as beguiling as Truss’s punctuation guide, which, amazingly, made us laugh while we learnt about semi-colons. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
45
por Andrea Levy
3,998 miembros
140 reseñas
3.9
Ranking Global 68
Puntuacion 2.81
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ahef1963
- Explicaciones
- bergg: A novel about racism, prejudice and injustice in the post war years in London as Jamaicans, escaping economic hardship, move to the Mother Country. Told from four characters’ points of view, it deserves all the accolade and prizes it has received. Powerful yet light in touch, humorous yet high in drama, it is a most rewarding and touching read. Won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2004 and on the 25th Jan 2005 the Whitbread 2004 overall. -www.lovereading4kids.co.uk
46
por Stephenie Meyer
58,268 miembros
2,264 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 95
Puntuacion 1.4
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
47
por Dan Brown
70,247 miembros
1,307 reseñas
½ 3.5
Ranking Global 115
Puntuacion 1.24
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
48
por Stephenie Meyer
40,478 miembros
1,037 reseñas
½ 3.7
Ranking Global 116
Puntuacion 1.22
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
49
por Stephenie Meyer
42,901 miembros
828 reseñas
3.8
Ranking Global 117
Puntuacion 1.19
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
50
por Stephenie Meyer
46,744 miembros
1,048 reseñas
½ 3.6
Ranking Global 118
Puntuacion 1.17
Añadido 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM