Vote for Your Favorite Books of the Decade

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers

What Is The What, Dave Eggers

How To Kill A Rockstar, Tiffanie Debartolo

God-Shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo

Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Love Is A Mixtape, Rob Sheffield

Dear American Airlines, Jonathan Miles

A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson

Gun, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond

The Areas Of my Expertise, John Hadgman

Run, Ann Patchett

A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

Well those are the one I liked enough to buy at least.

1. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingslover
2. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
3. Life of Pi, Yann Martel
4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Mark Haddon
5. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
6. The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Louise Murphy
7. The Devil and the White City, Erik Larson
8. Wild at Heart, John Eldredge
9. Captivating, John and Stasi Eldredge
10. Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers

What is the What - Dave Eggers

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood

Hey Nostradamus - Douglas Coupland

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher
The City of Dreaming Books, Walter Moers
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Conrad's Fate, Diana Wynne Jones
The Neddidad, Daniel Pinkwater
Savvy, Ingrid Law
Evil Genius, Catherine Jinks
New Moon, Stephenie Meyer

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey

The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman

Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra

The Boys by Garth Ennis

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Heir to the Glimmering World - Cynthia Ozick

Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

Perdido Street Station - China Mieville

Atonement - Ian McEwan

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Black Swan Green - David Mitchell

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngogi Adichie

One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson

Let Me In - John Ajvide Lindqvist

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name - Vendela Vida

Darkmans - Nicola Barker

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

1. Blankets by Craig Thompson

2. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

3. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

4. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

5. Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman

6.Me Talk Pretty one Day by David Sedaris

7. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

8. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

9. What is the What: The Autobiography
of Valentino Achak Deng by Dave Eggers

10. A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri

Aloft by Chang-Rae Lee

The Road byCormac McCarthy

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Memories of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
F.I.A.S.C.O. by Frank Partnoy
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

Read all of those before you even think about voting.

Oh, and also:

Born Standing Up by Steve Martin

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

The Road, by Coramc McCarthy

1. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
2. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safrom Foer
3. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4. What was She Thinking, Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
5. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
6. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
7. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
8. Paradise by AL Kennedy
9. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
10. Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling

A Mercy, by Toni Morrison

Easy.

3. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2. Everything Is Illuminated

and 1, hands down, THE ROAD.

Best comedy book?

I Am America (and So Can You!)

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips
Me Talk Pretty one Day by David Sedaris
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Of the above list by Paste, I've read 13, I have sitting around waiting to be read 7 of them, and I want to read 6 more of them eventually. I feel this won't be accurate because there are so many I haven't read yet that I would love just as much as my choices. I'm a reader. This is tough. I feel like I'm still catching up on past decades (not to mention the 19th century books I sometimes read). Many of my favorites missed this decade by a year or two.

01.The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan (2006)
02.The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel - Jasper Fforde (and the entire series)(2002)
03.The Muse Asylum - David Czuchlewski (2001)
04.Sons of Heaven - Terrence Cheng (2002)
05.Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (2002)
06.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)

And I can't decide the other four between these RUNNERS UP:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver (2007)
Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver (2000)
Drop City - T.C. Boyle (2003)
A Friend of the Earth - T.C. Boyle (2000)
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak (2006)
The Song Is You - Arthur Phillips (2009)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides (2002)
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2004)
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman (2007)
Brother, I'm Dying - Edwidge Danticat (2007)
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell (2000)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (2002)

So many good books I haven't read yet!

In the Woods, Tana French
The Double Bind, Chris Bohjalian
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Likeness, Tana French

The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
The Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Wicked, Gregory Maguire
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini