Grad School rather curbed my non-scholarly reading this decade, but I still found time for a few books. And the couple of years that I was not schooling allowed me to catch up a bit. I still feel like there are a lot of great books I missed, but I think my list below has some good ones. And I can easily think of another dozen to add now that I have typed this, but I'm trying to stick to near ten. Hmm, maybe I'll do a director's cut of the list sometime.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (2002). I think people get tired of me talking about it.
Ian McEwan, Atonement (2001). I can't bring myself to watch the movie. I'm usually good at separating movie from book, but it's such a powerful novel I'm afraid the movie would cheapen it.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) and On Beauty (2005)
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (2004)
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004)
Yann Martel, Life of Pi (2001)
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). I know it's gimmicky blah blah blah, but I still like it.
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)
Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (2006). Shares some similarities with The Kite Runner, which may have made the list if I had not read Matar's book.
Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (2007). Okay, so half of what I read are fantasy novels and I absolutely could not put this one down.
Non-fiction
I read way more non-fiction than fiction this decade. These are really the only three that stick out, though.
David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Richard Crawford, America's Musical Life, A History (2001)
Micheal Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)
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