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)