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+1 to the comments by HomeInMyShoes and Hamlet53
For this decade my vote will go to Kafka's Prozess. Reason: It is one of the few pieces of fiction that can irritate me deeply.
"The process has been set in motion already ...". The book has seen more different interpretations than it has chapters, perhaps even pages. Mainly I read it as a dissection of modern procedural rationality (sic!). The irritating bit: Does it leave us readers in a state of resignation, or can we do something about it as we are part of it all?
Written in the 1910's, published in the 1920's, a fragment? So what. A timeless book for the 20th and imho for our 21th century too. The process is running still ...
I have read two thirds of the nominated books - no Nancy Drew though.
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