Sunday 12.20.2009 | 4:23 AM EDT

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:

1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: Michael Chabon
2. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami
3. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Haruki Murakami
4. Kafka on the Shore: Haruki Murakami
5. Dance, Dance, Dance: Haruki Murakami
6. Master and Margarita: Mikhail Bulgakov
7. In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
8. East of Eden: John Steinbeck
9. The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
10. Underworld: Don DeLillo
11. Libra: Don DeLillo
12. White Noise: Don DeLillo
13. Little Children: Tom Perrotta
14. The Corrections: Jonathan Franzen
15. Revolutionary Road: Richard Yates
16. American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis
17. Lunar Park: Bret Easton Ellis
18. A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks: Andy Gill
19. Chronicles Volume I: Bob Dylan
20. Bob Dylan, A Biography: Bob Spitz
21. Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984: Simon Reynolds
22. All You Need Is Ears: The inside personal story of
    the genius who created The Beatles: George Martin
23. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House: John J. Harris
24. From Beirut to Jerusalem: Thomas Friedman
25. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary: Simon Winchester
26. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America: Erik Larson
27. The Long Goodbye: Raymond Chandler
28. The Lady In The Lake: Raymond Chandler
29. The Big Sleep: Raymond Chandler
30. American Tabloid: James Elroy
31. The Black Dahlia: James Elroy
32. The Music of Chance: Paul Auster
33. The New York Trilogy: Paul Auster
34. Here Is New York: E.B. White
35. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: Ron Hansen