Well, At Least There Was Good Stuff to Read: The Books of the Decade
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Books of the Decade:
2000:
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth (Houghton Mifflin)
White Teeth, by Zadie Smith (Random House)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon (Random House)
The Feast of Love, by Charles Baxter (Pantheon)
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men, by Padgett Powell (Houghton Mifflin)
The Name of the World, by Denis Johnson (HarperCollins)
The Night Listener, by Armistead Maupin (HarperCollins)
Pastoralia: Stories, by George Saunders (Riverhead)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers (Vintage)
You Might Have Missed:
The Verificationist, by Donald Antrim (Knopf)
Off Keck Road, by Mona Simpson (Knopf)
2001:
Austerlitz, by W. G. Sebald (Random House)
The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (FSG)
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro (Knopf)
Among the Missing, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine)
Demonology: Stories, by Rick Moody (Little, Brown)
Empire Falls, by Richard Russo (Knopf)
My Name is Red, by Orhan Pamuk (Knopf)
Perfect Recall: New Stories, by Ann Beattie (Scribner)
Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami (Knopf)
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins)
You May Have Missed:
Niagra Falls All over Again, by Elizabeth McCracken (Dial)
2002:
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer (HarperCollins)
Atonement, by Ian McEwan (Doubleday)
Female Trouble: A Collection of Short Stories, by Antonya Nelson (Scribner)
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG)
July, July, by Tim O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin)
The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt (Knopf)
Seek My Face, by John Updike (Knopf)
You May Have Missed:
In The Forest, by Edna O'Brien (Houghton Mifflin)
Yonder Stands Your Orphan, by Barry Hannah (Grove)
2003:
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, by ZZ Packer (Riverhead)
A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker (Random House)
Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo (Scribner)
A Distant Shore, by Caryl Phillips (Knopf)
The Effect of Living Backwards, by Heidi Julavits (Putnam)
Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy (Scribner)
Loot: And Other Stories, by Nadine Gordimer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Love, by Toni Morrison (Knopf)
Old School, by Tobias Wolff (Knopf)
Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
You May Have Missed:
Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls, by Matt Ruff (HarperCollins)
How to Breathe Underwater: Stories, by Julie Orringer (Vintage)
Bay of Souls, by Robert Stone (Houghton Mifflin)
2004:
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (FSG)
War Trash, by Ha Jin (Pantheon)
Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell (Random House)
I Am Charlotte Simmons, by Tom Wolfe (FSG)
Little Children, by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin's)
Snow, by Orham Pamuk (Knopf)
Wake Up, Sir!, by Jonathan Ames (Scribner)
Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte (Picador)
You May Have Missed:
Red Ant House, by Ann Cummins (Mariner)
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