The Best Books of the Decade (2000-2009)

Here's a rundown of the most useful compilations I've come across.

• 100 Best (Times)
• 30 Best (Onion)
• Best (Salon)

My own favorites are listed below.

• My Stroke of Insight (Taylor)
  
• Architecture (Glancey)
• Under the Banner of Heaven (Krakauer)
• Discovering the Sikhs (McLeod)
• The Spiral Staircase (Armstrong)
• The Undercover Economist (Harford)
• The Tipping Point (Gladwell)
• Freakonomics (Levitt)
• A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (Bryson)
• The Future of Freedom (Zakaria)
• My Job Went to India (Fowler)
• Effective Java (Bloch)
• Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
• A Little History of the World (Gombrich)
• Vows (Manseau)
• Step Across This Line (Rushdie)
• An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (Roy)
• The Algebra of Infinite Justice (Roy)
• Power Politics (Roy)
• War Talk (Roy)
• Holy Cow (Macdonald)

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