Most Memorable Books Read in the Aughts

Alphabetical, by author (and not necessarily published in the aughts):

Fiction

1. Call Me By Your Name - Andre Aciman
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
3. The Gathering - Anne Enright
4. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
5. The Lay of the Land - Richard Ford
6. The Abomination - Paul Golding
7. Crabwalk - Gunter Grass
8. Plays Well With Others - Alan Gurganus
9. The Kite-Runner - Khalid Hesseini
10. Grief - Andrew Holleran
11. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst
12. Garden, Ashes - Danilo Kis

13. The Kindly Ones - Jonathan Littell

14. At Swim, Two Boys - Jamie O'Neill

15. Autumn Quartet - Barbara Pym

16. Vertigo - W.G. Sebald

17. Dorian - Will Self

18. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
19. Journey by Midnight - Antal Szerb

20. My Other Life - Paul Theroux

21. Summer in Baden-Baden - Leonid Tsypkin

Non-Fiction: Memoirs, Autobiography, Essays

1. Out of Egypt - Andre Aciman

2. Untold Stories - Alan Bennett

3. Writing Home - Alan Bennett

4. Dry - Augusten Burroughs

5. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs

6. Stranger Shores -Essays - J.M. Coetzee

7. Where I Came From - Joan Didion

8. Bitter Lemons - Lawrence Durrell

9. Peeling the Onion - Gunter Grass

10. Bartleby in Manhattan - Elizabeth Hardwick

11. Deep Romantic Chasms - Diaries 1979-1981 - James Lees-Milne

12. Holy Dread - Diaries 1982-1984 - James Lees-Milne

13. A Writer's Life in Wales - Jan Morris

14. The Happiness of Getting it Down Right - Letters of Frank O'Connor & William Maxwell

15. The Journals 1973-1982 - Joyce Carol Oates

16. A Tale of Love and Darkness - Amos Oz
17. Istanbul: Memories and The City - Orhan Pamuk

18. Good Hearts - Reynolds Price
19. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris
20. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
21. Sir Vidia's Shadow - Paul Theroux

22. George - Emlyn Williams

Rant

1. God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

History

1. The Great Deluge - David Brinkley