The 20 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)
20. Chuck Klosterman: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story [Scribner] (2005)
19. Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point [Little Brown] (2000) - checked
18. Donald Miller: Blue Like Jazz [Thomas Nelson] (2003)
17. Carl Wilson: Let’s Talk About Love (A Journey To The End Of Taste) [Continuum] (2007)
16. Joseph O’Neill: Netherland [Vintage] (2008)
15. Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation [Houghton Mifflin] (2001)
14. J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter [Bloomsbury] (1998-2007) - checked
13. Ian McEwan: Atonement [Nan A. Talese] (2002)
12. Doug Blackmon: Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II [Doubleday] (2008)
11. David Sedaris: Me Talk Pretty One Day[Little, Brown and Company] (2000)
10. David Foster Wallace: Consider The Lobster And Other Essays[Little, Brown and Company]
9. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything Is Illuminated [Harper Perennial] (2002)
8. Joan Didion: The Year of Magical Thinking[Knopf] (2005)
7. Craig Thompson: Blankets [Top Shelf Productions] (2003
6. Markus Zusak: The Book Thief [Knopf] (2005)
5. Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex [Picador] (2002)
4. Marilynne Robinson: Gilead [Farrar, Straus and Giroux] (2004)
3. Cormac McCarthy: The Road [Knopf] (2006)
2. Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius [Simon & Schuster] (2000)
1. Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay [Random House] (2000)
