2000s decade

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Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
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44,166 membres
1,327 critiques
3.9
Rang global 3
4 Members
dara85, bergg, cej1027, ahef1963
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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
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26,897 membres
773 critiques
3.9
Rang global 2
4 Members
bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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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
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26,375 membres
625 critiques
3.9
Rang global 8
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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27,200 membres
629 critiques
4.1
Rang global 11
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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bergg: A strange gender changing, time spanning complicated novel. Past and present combine to give this novel literary force. -randomnonsenseaboutthings.blogspot.com
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18,728 membres
412 critiques
4.2
Rang global 17
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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96,230 membres
1,564 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 29
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13,072 membres
483 critiques
3.8
Rang global 10
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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22,745 membres
938 critiques
3.8
Rang global 9
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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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
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52,634 membres
1,298 critiques
4.2
Rang global 1
10
43,477 membres
1,012 critiques
3.9
Rang global 22
11
10,778 membres
363 critiques
3.9
Rang global 18
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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2,354 membres
30 critiques
½ 3.5
Rang global 13
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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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.
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100,566 membres
861 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 41
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39,376 membres
1,269 critiques
4.1
Rang global 35
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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100,951 membres
930 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 46
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35,746 membres
938 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 37
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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bergg: Related from heaven after a brutal rape, Susie watches her family grieve and disintegrate, watches her friends and indeed watches her killer and the sad detective working on her case. -lindyloumacbookreviews.blogspot.ca
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101,904 membres
879 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 48
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44,661 membres
2,118 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 14
3 Members
dara85, bergg, ahef1963
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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.
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14,181 membres
266 critiques
3.9
Rang global 43
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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4,225 membres
79 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 25
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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30,205 membres
893 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 6
4 Members
dara85, bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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.
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33,516 membres
931 critiques
4.1
Rang global 21
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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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
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11,014 membres
291 critiques
4
Rang global 24
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106,573 membres
981 critiques
½ 4.4
Rang global 61
25
161 membres
2 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 62
26
13,162 membres
455 critiques
3.9
Rang global 30
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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16,936 membres
536 critiques
3.9
Rang global 20
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10,281 membres
290 critiques
3.8
Rang global 49
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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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)
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6,908 membres
294 critiques
4.2
Rang global 12
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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64,068 membres
3,478 critiques
½ 4.3
Rang global 50
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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48,908 membres
1,792 critiques
4.2
Rang global 51
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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109,821 membres
994 critiques
4.2
Rang global 71
33
23,510 membres
406 critiques
4
Rang global 55
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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43,016 membres
1,746 critiques
4
Rang global 26
35
9,553 membres
423 critiques
3.8
Rang global 15
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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25,202 membres
725 critiques
4.1
Rang global 27
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16,428 membres
384 critiques
3.9
Rang global 19
38
8,762 membres
182 critiques
3.9
Rang global 23
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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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
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17,141 membres
910 critiques
4
Rang global 33
3 Members
bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy
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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
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30,327 membres
931 critiques
4.1
Rang global 31
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31,399 membres
1,241 critiques
4.1
Rang global 63
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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19,282 membres
1,242 critiques
4.2
Rang global 64
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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bergg: ... a delightful piece of historical fiction that will make you laugh, cry and remember the transformational power of literature. -Erin Miller
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23,142 membres
398 critiques
4.2
Rang global 65
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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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
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15,622 membres
333 critiques
3.8
Rang global 66
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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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
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3,987 membres
140 critiques
3.9
Rang global 68
2 Members
bergg, ahef1963
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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
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58,050 membres
2,264 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 95
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70,119 membres
1,305 critiques
½ 3.5
Rang global 115
48
40,279 membres
1,036 critiques
½ 3.7
Rang global 116
49
42,733 membres
826 critiques
3.8
Rang global 117
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46,542 membres
1,045 critiques
½ 3.6
Rang global 118