So, in the Daily Telegraph in the UK today is a list of the top 100 books of the last decade (or "100 books that defined the decade" as they put it, which, I suppose might be slightly different).
I'm not going to list them all in this post (the full list can be seen
here), but the top 10 (in the traditional reverse order) are:
10.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
9. Atonement (Ian McEwan)
8. White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
7. The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolano)
6. Being Jordan (Katie Price)
5. The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
4. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Dave Eggars)
3. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Dreams From My Father (Barack Obama)
1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
Clearly, some of these are works of genius by towering literary figures (Dan Brown and Katie Price, for example
) but I'd be interested in people's views.