My favourite books of the decade
This list isn't actually that meaningful, because I haven't read too many books from the noughties (I still haven't got around to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao or White Teeth, for example), but here goes anyway:
1. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
2. Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
3. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
4. Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated
5. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
6. Roberto Bolaño - 2666
7. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
8. Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt
9. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
10. William Gaddis - Agapē Agape
11. Christian Bök - Eunoia
12. Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen
13. Stéphane Audeguy - The Theory of Clouds
14. Louise Erdrich - The Plague of Doves
15. John Patrick Shanley - Doubt: A Parable
And some of the most disappointing books of the decade: César Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, Dennis Lee's Yes No, Roger Williams' The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, and Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters.
1. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
2. Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
3. Cormac McCarthy - The Road
4. Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything Is Illuminated
5. Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
6. Roberto Bolaño - 2666
7. Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
8. Douglas Adams - The Salmon of Doubt
9. Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
10. William Gaddis - Agapē Agape
11. Christian Bök - Eunoia
12. Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen
13. Stéphane Audeguy - The Theory of Clouds
14. Louise Erdrich - The Plague of Doves
15. John Patrick Shanley - Doubt: A Parable
And some of the most disappointing books of the decade: César Aira's An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter, Dennis Lee's Yes No, Roger Williams' The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, and Margaret Drabble's The Seven Sisters.