The Times Online 100 Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

1.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) 4.62 avg rating — 4,009,221 ratings
2.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner 4.35 avg rating — 3,401,874 ratings
3.
Life of Pi
Life of Pi 3.94 avg rating — 1,726,531 ratings
4.
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by: Dan Brown
3.93 avg rating — 2,475,225 ratings
5.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 3.89 avg rating — 1,568,713 ratings
6.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,614 ratings
7.
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 7,125,823 ratings
8.
Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 551,947 ratings
9.
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go 3.85 avg rating — 813,129 ratings
10.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,086 ratings
11.
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 376,617 ratings
12.
White Teeth
White Teeth 3.79 avg rating — 170,738 ratings
13.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 356,967 ratings
14.
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius 3.69 avg rating — 182,714 ratings
15.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A Short History of Nearly Everything 4.22 avg rating — 412,813 ratings
16.
The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating — 200,080 ratings
17.
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation 3.87 avg rating — 106,064 ratings
18.
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books 3.66 avg rating — 138,463 ratings
19.
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas 4.01 avg rating — 262,708 ratings
20.
The God Delusion
The God Delusion 3.90 avg rating — 279,316 ratings
21.
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 3.89 avg rating — 274,946 ratings
22.
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 4.01 avg rating — 885,798 ratings
23.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,015 ratings
24.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,239 ratings
25.
My Name Is Red
My Name Is Red 3.87 avg rating — 60,035 ratings
26.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,206 ratings
27.
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,556 ratings
27.
Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating — 182,761 ratings
29.
The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America 3.81 avg rating — 67,293 ratings
30.
Fingersmith
Fingersmith 4.02 avg rating — 115,227 ratings
31.
Seabiscuit: Mit Dem Willen Zum Erfolg
Seabiscuit: Mit Dem Willen Zum Erfolg 4.23 avg rating — 167,137 ratings
32.
Out Stealing Horses
Out Stealing Horses 3.81 avg rating — 37,106 ratings
33.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,604 ratings
34.
True History of the Kelly Gang
True History of the Kelly Gang 3.83 avg rating — 23,797 ratings
35.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,869 ratings
36.
Austerlitz
Austerlitz 3.98 avg rating — 25,607 ratings
37.
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things 3.89 avg rating — 10,997 ratings
38.
The Secret Scripture
The Secret Scripture 3.84 avg rating — 22,627 ratings
39.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Half of a Yellow Sun 4.34 avg rating — 176,444 ratings
40.
How I Live Now
How I Live Now 3.58 avg rating — 46,703 ratings
41.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,129 ratings
42.
Runaway: Stories
Runaway: Stories 3.97 avg rating — 27,361 ratings
43.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty-Four Stories 3.84 avg rating — 42,533 ratings
44.
The Line of Beauty
The Line of Beauty 3.77 avg rating — 30,642 ratings
45.
Bad Science
Bad Science 4.06 avg rating — 44,415 ratings
46.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation 3.76 avg rating — 75,120 ratings
47.
Chronicles, Volume One
Chronicles, Volume One
by: Bob Dylan
3.98 avg rating — 60,439 ratings
48.
The Accidental
The Accidental
by: Ali Smith
3.37 avg rating — 13,494 ratings
49.
Home
Home 4.04 avg rating — 29,638 ratings
50.
The Arrival
The Arrival
by: Shaun Tan
4.35 avg rating — 59,072 ratings
51.
The Ghost
The Ghost 3.82 avg rating — 19,862 ratings
52.
The Kindly Ones
The Kindly Ones 4.02 avg rating — 14,659 ratings
52.
The Enchantress of Florence
The Enchantress of Florence 3.61 avg rating — 19,304 ratings
54.
Bad Blood
Bad Blood 3.66 avg rating — 2,498 ratings
55.
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth 3.73 avg rating — 2,596 ratings
56.
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression 4.19 avg rating — 15,442 ratings
57.
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies 3.89 avg rating — 32,432 ratings
58.
London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
59.
The Damned Utd
The Damned Utd 4.14 avg rating — 8,788 ratings
60.
The Emperor's Children
The Emperor's Children 2.98 avg rating — 21,373 ratings
61.
Unless
Unless 3.63 avg rating — 16,937 ratings
62.
Youth
Youth 3.78 avg rating — 8,120 ratings
63.
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 3.65 avg rating — 4,628 ratings
64.
The Carhullan Army
The Carhullan Army 3.42 avg rating — 4,308 ratings
65.
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
by: Alex Ross
4.10 avg rating — 15,700 ratings
66.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.46 avg rating — 1,741 ratings
67.
Experience
Experience 3.90 avg rating — 4,012 ratings
68.
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times 4.35 avg rating — 1,910 ratings
69.
Fleshmarket Close (Inspector Rebus, #15)
Fleshmarket Close (Inspector Rebus, #15) 4.01 avg rating — 14,033 ratings
69.
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Berlin: The Downfall 1945 4.30 avg rating — 17,968 ratings
71.
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.36 avg rating — 36,105 ratings
72.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World 3.90 avg rating — 30,144 ratings
73.
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday 3.31 avg rating — 144 ratings
74.
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War 4.04 avg rating — 7,249 ratings
75.
Rapture
Rapture 4.05 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
76.
The Collected Stories
The Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating — 7,260 ratings
77.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.09 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
78.
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 28,778 ratings
78.
The Emperor's Babe
The Emperor's Babe 3.65 avg rating — 4,248 ratings
80.
Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Imperial Life in The Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone 4.04 avg rating — 6,601 ratings
81.
Thursbitch
Thursbitch 3.66 avg rating — 970 ratings
82.
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 4.08 avg rating — 24,514 ratings
83.
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned 3.88 avg rating — 9,090 ratings
84.
Dart
Dart 3.95 avg rating — 1,451 ratings
85.
Peeling the Onion
Peeling the Onion 3.86 avg rating — 2,112 ratings
86.
A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World
A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World 4.29 avg rating — 219 ratings
86.
The Position
The Position 3.36 avg rating — 5,033 ratings
88.
Moondust
Moondust 4.05 avg rating — 3,289 ratings
89.
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature 4.09 avg rating — 25,079 ratings
90.
The PowerBook
The PowerBook 3.68 avg rating — 4,970 ratings
91.
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad 4.37 avg rating — 644 ratings
92.
England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive
England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive 4.29 avg rating — 55 ratings
93.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.54 avg rating — 65 ratings
94.
Giving Up the Ghost
Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,822 ratings
95.
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution 3.91 avg rating — 1,353 ratings
96.
My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes
My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes 4.17 avg rating — 610 ratings
97.
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,196 ratings
98.
District and Circle
District and Circle 4.03 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
99.
The Lost Leader
The Lost Leader 3.33 avg rating — 39 ratings