2000s decade
- Descrição
- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
1
por Susanna Clarke
26,953 membros
772 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 2
Pontuação 13.44
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
- 4 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: Set in an alternative England during the Napoleonic wars, Clarke envisages a world in which magic is a reality, albeit practiced in a mundane, academic fashion. -ign.com
2
por Jonathan Franzen
16,570 membros
340 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 7
Pontuação 8.35
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:03 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: The Tolstoy-esque family novel got its 21st-century upgrade early, and has withstood all comers since. The Lamberts’ disintegration under the pressures of work, illness, and love unfolds with a cynical humor that strips the family’s pretensions away until only their most craven selves survive as they struggle to break free. As these unsympathetic characters go through the wringer, Jonathan Franzen outlines the symptoms of modern malaise, whose only cure is being able to see through the layers of protective self-delusion. The modern dysfunctional family wriggles under Franzen’s microscope, but its features are all too familiar. -A.V. Club
3
por Kazuo Ishiguro
22,784 membros
937 críticas
3.8
Global Rank 9
Pontuação 7.57
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: Kath, a seemingly ordinary British girl, goes to a special boarding school where she and her friends are groomed for a special fate while enjoying and suffering the loves and betrayals that come to young people everywhere. This odd, heartbreaking novel unfurls age-old conundrums about what it means to be a person; about the grievous sin of treating anyone, however unexceptional, as the means to an end; and about the unfathomable future that awaits each and every one of us. -Laura Miller, Salon.com
4
por Dave Eggers
2,361 membros
30 críticas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 13
Pontuação 6.89
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: A Memoir written by Dave Eggers recounting the events leading to his current adult life through the death of his mother due to Stomach cancer and also the death of his father from lung cancer. Becoming the soul caretaker of his younger sibling results is Dave maturing beyond his years which eventually leads to his need to be irresponsible and reckless mostly through sex and alcohol.
5
por Richard Russo
8,772 membros
182 críticas
3.9
Global Rank 23
Pontuação 5.67
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: Much of America made it out of the 20th century badly equipped to deal with the 21st. Richard Russo’s Empire Falls is set in just such a place, a rust-belt Maine town that’s kept going even though the industry that led to its creation can no longer sustain it. Russo brought his by-then-familiar command of memorable characters and comic moments to a novel more ambitious than any he’d attempted before. The book captures a time and place unnerved by a future that offers no reassuring promises of a better tomorrow beyond the comfort its inhabitants can give each other. -avclub.com
6
por Joshua Ferris
4,520 membros
221 críticas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 32
Pontuação 4.75
Adicionado 2014-11-02, 02:51 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
7
por Claire Messud
3,524 membros
104 críticas
3.1
Global Rank 36
Pontuação 3.8
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: A sharp, elegant, sophisticated portrait of three smart New Yorkers about to hit 30, just before 9/11. Danielle is a TV producer, Julius is a freelance critic and poor “Bootie” has hopelessly dropped out. A meditation on modern morality. -http://aggsliterature.wordpress.com
8
por Neil Gaiman
33,584 membros
931 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 21
Pontuação 5.81
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: America is no place for a divinity. Our soil isn’t fertile that way — myths don’t thrive the way they did in the old world. Reading American Gods, you can see why it takes a foreigner — Gaiman’s a Brit — to see what is invisible to the natives: the old deities scratching out a seedy living all around us — Norse, Slavic, Irish, Egyptian, voodoo, Egyptian — brought over by generations of immigrants and then left to die. Together they re-enact the old myths here on our barren soil, and Gaiman shows us that, even here, they still have their old power. -entertainment.time.com
9
por Nick Hornby
8,652 membros
191 críticas
½ 3.5
Global Rank 34
Pontuação 4.34
Adicionado 2014-11-02, 02:44 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
10
27,852 membros
1,038 críticas
4.1
Global Rank 38
Pontuação 3.78
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: A twisty, Gothic tale that contains a story-within-a-story, it features a mythical "Cemetery of Forgotten Books," a reclusive author and a Barcelona that is still reeling from the Spanish Civil War. Part noir, part coming-of-age story and part mystery, this is 100% page-turner. -bookpage.com
11
por Sarah Waters
5,085 membros
343 críticas
½ 3.6
Global Rank 39
Pontuação 3.72
Adicionado 2014-11-02, 02:57 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
12
por David Sedaris
21,054 membros
368 críticas
4
Global Rank 42
Pontuação 3.59
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:15 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
13
24,934 membros
448 críticas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 45
Pontuação 3.5
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:31 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
14
por Alison Bechdel
8,132 membros
368 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 47
Pontuação 3.43
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:36 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: This graphic memoir is an investigation of Bechdel’s childhood, spent in the ornate Victorian house that her father obsessively restored and maintained. After she came out of the closet to her parents at 19, her mom delivered a return whammy: Bechdel’s father had a lifelong history of affairs with men, including teenage boys. Not long after, he died under ambiguous circumstances. Bechdel’s years of drawing a serial comic strip have honed her ability to convey oceans of feeling in a single image, and the feelings are never simple; “Fun Home” shimmers with regret, compassion, annoyance, frustration, pity and love. -Laura Miller
15
por Marjane Satrapi
8,480 membros
321 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 5
Pontuação 8.86
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
- Explicações
- bergg: Drawn in black and white, Persepolis is one of the most well-known graphic novels of the decade. It tells the immigration story of the author, Marjane, and how she dealt with it. The book is soaked with themes of nostalgia. -dailyiowan.com
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por J. K. Rowling
96,398 membros
1,564 críticas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 29
Pontuação 4.82
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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por J. K. Rowling
100,816 membros
860 críticas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 41
Pontuação 3.6
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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por J. K. Rowling
101,199 membros
929 críticas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 46
Pontuação 3.45
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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por J. K. Rowling
102,255 membros
878 críticas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 48
Pontuação 3.32
Adicionado 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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por J. K. Rowling
106,928 membros
981 críticas
½ 4.4
Global Rank 61
Pontuação 2.92
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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160 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.3
Global Rank 62
Pontuação 2.91
Adicionado 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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por J. K. Rowling
110,157 membros
992 críticas
4.2
Global Rank 71
Pontuação 2.7
Adicionado 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda