Sunday 12.20.2009 | 4:23 AM EST
Best of the Decade: Books
Ok, so this is not a list of the best books published in the past decade… simply those I happened to read and enjoy most between 2000-2009.
Not too many big surprises here for many of you, but a few are buried or ignored little gems. Some already have their own posts here, others will follow suit.
Now, to the list:
In no particular order:
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: Michael Chabon
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami
- Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore: Haruki Murakami
- Dance, Dance, Dance: Haruki Murakami
- Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov
- In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
- East of Eden: John Steinbeck
- The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
- Underworld: Don DeLillo
- Libra: Don DeLillo
- White Noise: Don DeLillo
- Little Children: Tom Perrotta
- The Corrections: Jonathan Franzen
- Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates
- American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis
- Lunar Park: Bret Easton Ellis
- A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks: Andy Gill
- Chronicles Volume I: Bob Dylan
- Bob Dylan, A Biography: Bob Spitz
- Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984: Simon Reynolds
- All You Need Is Ears: The inside personal story of
the genius who created The Beatles: George Martin - The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House: John J. Harris
- From Beirut to Jerusalem: Thomas Friedman
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: Simon Winchester
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America: Erik Larson
- The Long Goodbye: Raymond Chandler
- The Lady In The Lake: Raymond Chandler
- The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler
- American Tabloid: James Elroy
- The Black Dahlia: James Elroy
- The Music of Chance: Paul Auster
- The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster
- Here Is New York: E.B. White
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Ron Hansen
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Thursday 05.13.2010 | 12:24 EST
TJ says:
I’m glad to see a book I gave you made it on the list. You know, I’m not even sure if I read that many books in toto this past decade: the decade of bearing children. Which of the Murakamis do you recommend I start with?