Celebrating the decade. Oops! This is the previous decade. Still makes a good challenge though. And it is one of the lists used to compile the master list at thegreatestbooks.org.
01-20: Fiction
21-30: Non-Fiction
The selection process described:
"Anyone looking for trends in our selection of the best books of the '00s might have a hard time finding them amid the wizards, 19th-century serial killers, dysfunctional families and such. Narrowing down our decisions was pretty tough, and the process required a number of back-and-forths about what was significant as well as beautifully executed, which book from a given author represented his or her best of the decade, and so on. So consider these alphabetically listed selections 30 of the many, many memorable books published this decade...."
