The Best Books of the Decade
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9/11,
Anti-Semitism,
Charles Lindbergh,
9/11 Fiction,
Aleksander Homen,
Any Human Heart,
Bosnian War,
Babi Yar,
Andrew Bacevich,
Chang-Rae Lee,
Carolyn Chute,
August Kleinzahler,
Alicia Erian,
Campbell Mcgrath,
Barbara Ehrenreich,
C. D. Wright,
Up in the Air,
Nationalism,
The Alphabet,
Heinrich Mann,
Blood Dazzler,
Snow,
Hitler,
Clayton Eshleman,
Squares and Courtyards: Poems,
T. C. Boyle,
Walking to Martha's Vineyard,
Evelyn Waugh,
Geoffrey Hill,
The Bridegroom,
Harry Mulisch,
Charlie Savage,
Genetic Engineering,
Fallen From a Chariot,
Turkey,
Jewish Assimilation,
Protestant Ethic,
Failed Politics,
The Lay of the Land,
The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War,
Don Lee,
Mohsin Hamid,
Richard Ford,
The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War,
Osama Bin Laden,
The Decline of American Power: The U. S. In a Chaotic World,
The Handmaid's Tail,
The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000,
Doris Lessing,
T. S. Eliot,
William Logan,
Eat the Document,
Welcome to Oakland: A Novel,
Islamic Radicalism,
J. M. Coetzee,
Immanuel Wallerstein,
World War II,
Pakistani Immigrants,
Elaine Equi,
Empire,
And the Global Crisis of American Capitalism,
Patrick French,
Lolita,
The Twilight of American Culture,
Don Delillo,
The Reluctant Fundamentalist,
The Identity Club,
The Succeessor,
My Name Is Red,
Persepolis,
The Museum of Innocence,
The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen,
Kevin Phillips,
Islamic Militants,
Anthony Powell,
Towelhead,
Ha Jin,
Miniaturist Painting,
The Inner Circle,
Melancholy,
Moth Smoke,
Bad Money: Reckless Finance,
Rajiv Chandrasekaran,
Non-Fiction,
White Teeth,
Matt Taibbi,
Border Crossing,
Joe College,
1940 Elections,
Elegy,
Saul Bellow,
Ernest Hemingway,
And Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire,
Desperate Measures,
Ismail Kadare,
Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone,
God Bless: A Political/Poetic Discourse,
Morris Berman,
Former Yugoslavia,
Castle,
Ken Kalfus,
Tom Wolfe,
Aleksander Hemon,
Orhan Pamuk,
What's the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America,
Eric Miles Williamson,
The Post-American World,
Derek Walcott,
Pablo Picasso,
George Saunders,
Brownsville,
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems New and Selected,
George Oppen,
Ron Silliman,
Der Untertan,
Marjane Satrapi,
Civil Liberties,
Dystopian Fiction,
Pat Barker,
Fiction,
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century,
Gore Vidal,
The Corrections,
E. L. Doctorow,
Modernization,
Margaret Atwood,
Elizabeth Costello,
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates,
World War I,
The Emperor's Children,
Ataturk,
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy,
H. L. Hix,
Rita Dove,
Richard Burgin,
Judy Grahn,
Caveat Onus: The Meditations,
Love,
William Boyd,
Multiculturalism,
John Updike,
Philip Roth,
Patricia Smith,
Dana Spiotta,
Philip Whalen,
Dostoevsky,
Tom Perrotta,
David Rhodes,
Bosnian Civil War,
Dave Brinks,
John Matthias,
Turkish Politics,
Florida Poems,
American Fascists: The Christian Right and Its War on America,
Nabokov,
Claire Messud,
Crime and Punishment,
Laila Halaby,
Kafka,
Oryx and Crake,
The Lazarus Project,
Netherland,
American Smooth: Poems,
Tony Hoagland,
What Narcissism Means to Me,
Max Weber,
Gulliver's Travels,
The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of v. S. Naipaul,
Immigrants,
Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader,
Fareed Zakaria,
Thomas Pynchon,
Sarajevo,
Oscar Casares,
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,
Richard Yates,
Zadie Smith,
Once in a Promised Land,
Dystopia,
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq,
Chris Hedges,
Laurence Sterne,
Joseph O'Neill,
Kevin Prufer,
Jonathan Swift,
Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems,
The Idiot,
James Howard Kunstler,
Islam,
Entropy,
Politics,
The Possessed,
A Free Life,
Tradition,
Ottoman Empire,
Poetry,
Thomas Frank,
Walter Kirn,
Marilyn Hacker,
James Joyce,
Thomas Ricks,
Jonathan Franzen,
A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,
The School on Heart's Content Road,
Love Belongs to Those Who Do the Feeling,
Franz Wright,
Ben in the World,
Falling,
Sweet Land Stories,
Aloft,
Ravelstein,
Driftless,
Anatolia,
Rising,
Kars,
Hovering,
Pastoralia,
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Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence will be interpreted by clueless reviewers as one about "obsession," just as they might view Nabokov's Lolita to be about "pedophilia."
Anis Shivani | Posted 12.09.2009 | Books