The Times' 100 Best Books of the Decade, 2000-2009
List by the Times of London. Published in November 2009.
- 1
The Road
Cormac McCarthy · 2006 · 14 lists
- 2
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi · 2000 · 4 lists
- 3
Dreams from My Father
Barack Obama · 1995 · 3 lists
- 4
Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers
Robert Bringhurst · 1999 · 1 list
- 5
Suite Française
Irene Nemirovsky · 2004 · 3 lists
- 6
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell · 2000 · 6 lists
- 7
Life of Pi
Yann Martel · 2001 · 6 lists
- 8
Payback
Margaret Atwood · 2008 · 1 list
- 9
Atonement
Ian McEwan · 2001 · 18 lists
- 10
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown · 2003 · 8 lists
- 11
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy · 1869 · 29 lists
- 12
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · 2000 · 5 lists
- 13
Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald · 2001 · 11 lists
- 14
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi · 2003 · 1 list
- 15
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins · 2006 · 2 lists
- 16
Rapture
Carol Ann Duffy · 2005 · 1 list
- 17
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling · 2007 · 6 lists
- 18
Bad Science
Ben Goldacre · 2008 · 1 list
- 19
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen · 2001 · 16 lists
- 20
White Teeth
Zadie Smith · 2000 · 17 lists
- 21
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth · 2004 · 8 lists
- 22
The Amber Spyglass
Philip Pullman · 2000 · 3 lists
- 23
The 9/11 Commission Report
9/11 Commission · 2004 · 3 lists
- 24
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005 · 11 lists
- 25
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon · 2003 · 8 lists
- 26
Bad Blood
Lorna Sage · 2000 · 2 lists
- 27
Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford University Press · 2015 · 2 lists
- 28
The Rest is Noise
Alex Ross · 2007 · 3 lists
- 29
The Accidental
Ali Smith · 2005 · 3 lists
- 30
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini · 2003 · 6 lists
- 31
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel · 2006 · 2 lists
- 32
Everything is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer · 2002 · 3 lists
- 33
Chronicles
Jean Froissart · 1950 · 2 lists
- 34
Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand · 2001 · 1 list
- 35
The Arrival
Shaun Tan · 2006 · 1 list
- 36
How I Live Now
Meg Rosoff · 2004 · 1 list
- 37
Selected Stories
O. Henry · 2003 · 2 lists
- 38
The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon · 2001 · 2 lists
- 39
Runaway
Alice Munro · 1987 · 3 lists
- 40
- 41
The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry · 2008 · 4 lists
- 42
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel · 2000 · 3 lists
- 43
Thursbitch
Alan Garner · 2003 · 2 lists
- 44
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · 4 lists
- 45
London
Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · 1 list
- 46
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 · 12 lists
- 47
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes · 2005 · 2 lists
- 48
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2003 · 1 list
- 49
The Ghost
Robert Harris · 2007 · 1 list
- 50
No Logo
Naomi Klein · 1999 · 2 lists
- 51
Home
Marilynne Robinson · 2010 · 4 lists
- 52
Youth
J.M. Coetzee · 1919 · 2 lists
- 53
Wolf Brother
Michelle Paver · 2004 · 1 list
- 54
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Lynne Truss · 2006 · 3 lists
- 55
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rajiv Chandrasekaran · 2006 · 2 lists
- 56
If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor · 2002 · 1 list
- 57
Fleshmarket Close
Ian Rankin · 2004 · 1 list
- 58
Dart
Alice Oswald · 2002 · 1 list
- 59
Moondust
Andrew Smith · 2005 · 1 list
- 60
Collapse
Jared Diamond · 2004 · 1 list
- 61
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst · 2004 · 6 lists
- 62
Fingersmith
Sarah Waters · 2002 · 6 lists
- 63
The Blank Slate
Steven Pinker · 2002 · 1 list
- 64
Staying Alive
Neil Astley · 2002 · 1 list
- 65
Peeling the Onion
Günter Grass · 2006 · 1 list
- 66
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell · 2004 · 7 lists
- 67
The Kindly Ones
Jonathan Littell · 1996 · 2 lists
- 68
Out Stealing Horses
Per Petterson · 2010 · 3 lists
- 69
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk · 1998 · 3 lists
- 70
The PowerBook
Jeanette Winterson · 2000 · 1 list
- 71
Experience
Martin Amis · 2000 · 2 lists
- 72
True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey · 2000 · 5 lists
- 73
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Haruki Murakami · 2006 · 1 list
- 74
War Music
Christopher Logue · 1981 · 1 list
- 75
The Damned Utd
David Peace · 2006 · 1 list
- 76
England in Particular
Sue Clifford, Angela King · 2006 · 1 list
- 77
Collected Poems of Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy · 1995 · 1 list
- 78
Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel · 2003 · 1 list
- 79
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware · 2000 · 3 lists
- 80
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga · 2008 · 2 lists
- 81
The Emperor's Children
Claire Messud · 2006 · 2 lists
- 82
Born Yesterday
Gordon Burn · 2008 · 1 list
- 83
Fatal Purity
Ruth Scurr · 2006 · 1 list
- 84
The Enchantress of Florence
Salman Rushdie · 2008 · 1 list
- 85
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer · 2005 · 3 lists
- 86
My Father and other Working-Class Football Heroes
Gary Imlac · 2006 · 1 list
- 87
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Wells Tower · 2009 · 1 list
- 88
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson · 2008 · 1 list
- 89
Maximum City
Suketu Mehta · 2004 · 1 list
- 90
This Republic of Suffering
Drew Gilpin Faust · 2008 · 2 lists
- 91
Unless
Carol Shields · 2002 · 2 lists
- 92
Berlin
Bea Setton · 2022 · 1 list
- 93
District and Circle
Seamus Heaney · 2006 · 1 list
- 94
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall · 2007 · 1 list
- 95
The Emperor's Babe
Bernardine Evaristo · 2001 · 1 list
- 96
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright · 2006 · 6 lists
- 97
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007 · 14 lists
- 98
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006 · 9 lists
- 99
The Lost Leader
Mick Imlah · 2008 · 1 list
- 100
The Position
Meg Wolitzer · 2005 · 1 list
