54 Best Books of the Decade; mostly in no particular order.

compiled & reviewed by Anaïs Escobar—this will be permanently in the links at the top of my main page below the writing archive if you need to find it in the future. reblog as needed.

1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, 2007

2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, 2001

3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2003

4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy, 2007

5. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel, 2006

6. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005

7. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, 2007

8. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by Tom Shales & James Andrew Miller, 2002

9. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore, 2009

10. Sailing Alone Around The Room by Billy Collins, 2001

11. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, 2003

12. Invisible by Paul Auster, 2009

13. Livability by Jon Raymond, 2008

14. Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau, 2005

15. The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

16. Captain Freedom: A Superhero’s Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves by G. Xavier Robillard, 2009

17. Littlefoot by Charles Wright, 2007

18. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II by Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill, 2003

19. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July, 2007

20. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004

21. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, 2003

22. 30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey, 2001

23. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, 2004

24. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss, 2005

25. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2002

26. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt, 2000

27. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin, 2007

28. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel, 2006

29. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, 2005

30. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, 2009 (US)

31. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, 2000

32. Super Spy by Matt Kindt, 2007

33. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, 2008

34. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, 2003

35. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, 2007

36. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, 2000

37. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, 2004

38. The Puppet & The Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity by Slavoj Žižek, 2003

39. Life of Pi by Yann Martel, 2001

40. Rose of No Man’s Land by Michelle Tea, 2006

41. Blonde: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates, 2000

42. Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser, 2001

43. All Families Are Psychotic by Douglas Coupland, 2001

44. Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende, 2007

45. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, 2003

46. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003

47. The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, 2003

48. Zeitoun by Dave Eggers, 2009

49. The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, 2001

50. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, 2001

51. Cecil & Jordan in New York by Gabrielle Bell, 2008

52. Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It by Geoff Dyer, 2003

53. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg, 2000

54. The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, 2007

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    Looks like I’ve got some reading
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    this summer! Interesting to see...included - you all know how I feel about that.
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