2000s decade
- Beschreibung
- Just compiled a list of books from 2000s decade.
1
von Susanna Clarke
26,959 Mitglieder
772 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 2
Bewertung 13.44
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:13 PM
- 4 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
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von Jonathan Franzen
16,573 Mitglieder
340 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 7
Bewertung 8.35
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:03 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
von Kazuo Ishiguro
22,792 Mitglieder
938 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 9
Bewertung 7.57
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:05 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
von Dave Eggers
2,364 Mitglieder
30 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Globaler Rang 13
Bewertung 6.89
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:08 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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.
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von Richard Russo
8,773 Mitglieder
182 Rezensionen
3.9
Globaler Rang 23
Bewertung 5.67
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:18 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
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von Joshua Ferris
4,521 Mitglieder
221 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Globaler Rang 32
Bewertung 4.75
Hinzugefügt 2014-11-02, 02:51 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
7
von Claire Messud
3,525 Mitglieder
104 Rezensionen
3.1
Globaler Rang 36
Bewertung 3.8
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:29 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
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von Neil Gaiman
33,588 Mitglieder
931 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 21
Bewertung 5.81
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:14 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
von Nick Hornby
8,654 Mitglieder
191 Rezensionen
½ 3.5
Globaler Rang 34
Bewertung 4.34
Hinzugefügt 2014-11-02, 02:44 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
10
27,855 Mitglieder
1,038 Rezensionen
4.1
Globaler Rang 38
Bewertung 3.78
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:12 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
von Sarah Waters
5,085 Mitglieder
343 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Globaler Rang 39
Bewertung 3.72
Hinzugefügt 2014-11-02, 02:57 PM
- 2 Members
- kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
12
von David Sedaris
21,057 Mitglieder
368 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 42
Bewertung 3.59
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:15 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
13
24,939 Mitglieder
448 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 45
Bewertung 3.5
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:31 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
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von Alison Bechdel
8,133 Mitglieder
368 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 47
Bewertung 3.43
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:36 PM
- 2 Members
- bergg, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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
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von Marjane Satrapi
8,480 Mitglieder
321 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 5
Bewertung 8.86
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:07 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
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- 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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von J. K. Rowling
96,407 Mitglieder
1,564 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 29
Bewertung 4.82
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:06 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von J. K. Rowling
100,833 Mitglieder
860 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 41
Bewertung 3.6
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:09 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von J. K. Rowling
101,215 Mitglieder
929 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 46
Bewertung 3.45
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:10 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von J. K. Rowling
102,221 Mitglieder
878 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 48
Bewertung 3.32
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 12:15 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von J. K. Rowling
106,953 Mitglieder
981 Rezensionen
½ 4.4
Globaler Rang 61
Bewertung 2.92
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:28 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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162 Mitglieder
2 Rezensionen
½ 4.3
Globaler Rang 62
Bewertung 2.91
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-12, 05:26 PM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda
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von J. K. Rowling
110,186 Mitglieder
993 Rezensionen
4.2
Globaler Rang 71
Bewertung 2.7
Hinzugefügt 2014-01-25, 09:33 AM
- 3 Members
- bergg, ahef1963, kara.shamy,ManWithAnAgenda