10 Great Literary Novels of the Noughties

A Listmania! list by Jonathan Birch (Cambridge)
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The Human Stain
1.  The Human Stain by Philip Roth
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  "A disgraced professor harbours a staggering secret."
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Austerlitz
2.  Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
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  "Sebald's masterpiece. A boy flees from the Nazis in 1939, but finds the psychological legacy of their atrocities inescapable."
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Life of Pi
3.  Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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  "Weird, wonderful, ferociously clever. A boy in a boat with a tiger."
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The Plot Against America
4.  The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
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  "Roth is at his compelling and furious best in this counterfactual history."
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Gilead
5.  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
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  "Beautiful and uplifting story of a dying Iowa pastor. 24 years in the making."
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Snow
6.  Snow by Orhan Pamuk
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  "Darkly evocative tale of doomed love and political strife in snowbound Kars."
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Never Let Me Go
7.  Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "An emotionally devastating work of science fiction."
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Arthur & George
8.  Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
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  "Immaculate fictionalised double-biography of novelist Arthur Conan Doyle and his unlikely Parsee friend, George Edalji."
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The Road
9.  The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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  "A father and son after the apocalypse. They carry on, despite everything. A bleak, poetic masterpiece."
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
10.  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
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  "A vibrant, tragicomic saga of Dominican immigrants in the US."
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