Favorite Books in the Last Ten Years

[Roland Taxt]

What have been your favorite books released between 1996 and 2006 (also counting the first two months of 2007)? All genres allowed.

[FroggieBKT]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is top notch (so is his other book, Everything is Illuminated). I also dug:
July, July by Tim O'Brien
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Waiting by Ha Jin
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
and a ton of others.

[Ml490]

The Da vinchi code - Dan Brown
Angels & demons - Dan brown

[Infra-Man]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer is top notch (so is his other book, Everything is Illuminated). I also dug:
July, July by Tim O'Brien
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Waiting by Ha Jin
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine by Thom Jones
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The 25th Hour by David Benioff
Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler
and a ton of others.

I actually liked Everything is Illuminated better than Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (kinda felt the latter was a bit of a copy of the former), but I agree Foer is an incredible writer. I remember reading one of his short stories about a language done in wingdings and it was just fantastic.

Hmmm... some of my favs:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Atonement by Ian McEwan
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Naked by David Sedaris
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

[Subotai]

Good question.

I'd say, Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. Night Dogs by Kent Anderson. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

[Adem]

All of Jasper Fforde's novels and A Song of Ice and Fire novels.

[Tony Bang]

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Micheal Chabon
American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Chronicles Volume I by Bob Dylan
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

[Roquefort Raider]

The ancestor's tale by Richard Dawkins

The life of Pi by Richard Martel

The god delusion by Richard Dawkins

Olympos by Dan Simmons

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

...

Mmmh... I don't read that many recent books, it seems.

[Agent Helix]

Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell - Susanna Clarke

Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

East Bay Grease - Eric Miles Williamson

Song of the Dodo and Flight of the Iguana - David Quammen (Nonfiction)

Market Forces - Richard K. Morgan (Really trashy, but a neat concept and a fun read)

The Last Light of the Sun, The Lions of Al-Rassan and The Sarantine Mosaic - Guy Gavriel Kay

[Davideaux]

American Pastoral Philip Roth
Atonement & [B]Saturday[/B ] Ian McEwan
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami

[JeffreyWKramer]

The Da vinchi code - Dan Brown
Angels & demons - Dan brown

You need to read a lot more.

[Matthew E]

Well, Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon came out in '99, and it's my favourite book of all time, so I guess I'll say that.

[Ryan Day]

China Mieville's Perdido Street Station just blew me away and stood out like nothing else I've read in a long time. The Scar may be even better, but Perdido had that incredible impact of "Wow. This guy is good."

Haruki Murakami's Wind-up Bird Chronicles - published originally in the early 90s, but the English translation came out in '97. I love most of his books, but this one stands out.

Alastair Reynolds' Chasm City - good noir sci-fi that doesn't get as bogged down in exposition and unnecessary details like some of Reynolds' other books (which I still very much enjoy). Nice twisting plot with plenty of mystery.

[SoulOnIce]

You need to read a lot more.

Now now, be nice. :)

[Agent Helix]

Now now, be nice. :)

Telling someone that lists two Dan Brown books as their only favorites from the last ten years that they should read a lot more IS being nice. It should be considered charity work.