Best books of the 2000's

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Girl With a Pearl Earring
1.  Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
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  "What Vermeer might have been up to with the maid & the value of the camera obscure"
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Miss Garnet's Angel
2.  Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
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  "The exploits of Miss Garnett in Venice & her faithful angels."
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When We Were Orphans
3.  When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
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  "The search for parents in Shanghai and the impact of Mao & his mates"
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The Wrong Boy
4.  The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
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  "Misunderstood boy becomes schizophrenic"
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Atonement
5.  Atonement by Ian McEwan
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  "Mlsunderstanding leads to family rift & guilt"
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The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
6.  The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) by Sylvia Plath
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  "Account of Sylvia Plath's descent into depression"
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Border Crossing
7.  Border Crossing by Pat Barker
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  "Child psychiatrist revisited by former patient"
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The Future Homemakers of America
8.  The Future Homemakers of America by Laurie Graham
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  "Women @ US airforce base involved with family with Huntingdons Chorea"
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With Your Crooked Heart
9.  With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
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  "Menage a trois"
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The Shipping News
10.  The Shipping News by Annie Proulx
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  "Man finds new life in Newfoundland witn lesbian aunt & 2 daughters"
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Life of Pi
11.  Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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  "Surviving shipwreck with a Bengal tiger?"
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The Lovely Bones
12.  The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
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  "About a dead teenager who watches her family & her murderer come to terms with her death"
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Mourning Ruby
13.  Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore
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  "Complex & poetic account of  a couple coming to terms with the death of their daughter"
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The Time Traveler's Wife
14.  The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
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  "Man with genetic disorder can travel in time meeting his wife aged 6 & daughter after he's dead"
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Small Island
15.  Small Island by Andrea Levy
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  "Racism in all its forms in post war London."
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Eleven Minutes
16.  Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
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  "A Brazilian girl salsa dances, finds sex only takes 11 minutes & goes home"
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We Need To Talk About Kevin
17.  We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
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  "Account written in the aftermath of a school shooting. Why, was it my fault, your fault or was he just plain unhinged?"
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
18.  The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
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  "Moving take on the Holocaust through the eyes of the Commandant's son."
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The Distance Between Us
19.  The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell
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  "Sisters doing it for themselves, until Jake comes along"
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The Kite Runner
20.  The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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  "Guilt"
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The Steep Approach To Garbadale
21.  The Steep Approach To Garbadale by Iain Banks
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  "Incest is alright as long as you keep it in the family"
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The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
22.  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
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  "Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters…"
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All in the Mind
23.  All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell
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  "No one gives therapy to the therapists"
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The Outcast
24.  The Outcast by Sadie Jones
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  "Story of the suppressed and pretentious English and what goes on behind closed doors."
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The Spare Room
25.  The Spare Room by Helen Garner
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  "Anger transfer, submission and karma"
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The Time Traveler's Wife forum
Depressed anyone? 		25 23 days ago
Life of Pi forum
Books which match, beat The Life of Pi? 		13 10 Apr 2012
The Time Traveler's Wife forum
The Emperor's new clothes or what ? 		29 8 Jan 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas forum
dangerous historical inaccuracy 		31 7 Nov 2011
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas forum
Surely the wire would have been electrified? 		17 28 Sep 2011
The Lovely Bones forum
the lovely bones 		4 25 Jul 2011
The Time Traveler's Wife forum
This is called grooming and is scary 		21 7 Apr 2011
The Kite Runner forum
novel for youngster.. 		0 14 Nov 2010
Small Island forum
Questions about Small Island 		0 27 Oct 2010
The Lovely Bones forum
the lovely bones 		0 22 Jul 2010
The Time Traveler's Wife forum
Have you ever heard about www.goodreads.com? 		4 1 Jul 2010
Girl With a Pearl Earring forum
Novels about Art 		1 13 May 2010
 
   

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