Tờ Timesonline vừa bình chọn những tác phẩm văn học giá trị nhất trong 10 năm đầu thế kỷ 21. Đứng đầu là "The Road" [bản tiếng Việt là "Cha và con"] của nhà văn Cormac McCarthy.
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Dưới đây là danh sách đầy đủ top 100
Cuốn sách được yêu thích nhất của Cormac McCarthy.
100. The Position - Meg Wolitzer [2005
99. The Lost Leader - Mick Imlah [2008]
98. Half of a Yellow Sun [ Nửa mặt trời vàng] - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie [2007]
97. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz [2007]
96. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda's Road to 9/11 - Lawrence Wright [2006]
95. The Emperor’s Babe - Bernardine Evaristo [2001]
94. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - Suketu Mehta [2005]
93. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World - Niall Ferguson [2008]
92. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower [2009]
91. My Father and other Working-Class Football Heroes - Gary Imlach [2005]
90. Twilight [Chạng vạng] - Stephenie Meyer [2005]
89. The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie [2008]
88. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution - Ruth Scurr [2006]
87. The Carhullan Army - Sarah Hall [2007]
86. District and Circle - Seamus Heaney [2006]
85. Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 - Antony Beevor [2002]
84. Unless - Carol Shields [2002]
83. This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War - Drew Gilpin Faust [2008]
82. Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel - Gordon Burn [2008]
81. The Emperor’s Children - Claire Messud [2006]
80. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga [2008]
79. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth - Chris Ware [2000]
78. Giving up the Ghost - Hilary Mantel [2003]
77. Collected Poems - Michael Donaghy [2009]
76. England in Particular: A Celebration of the Commonplace, the Local, the Vernacular and the Distinctive - Sue Clifford và Angela King [2006]
75. The Damned Utd - David Peace [2006]
74. War Music - Christopher Logue [2001]
73. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami [2005]
72. True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey [2001]
71. Experience - Martin Amis [2000]
70. The PowerBook - Jeanette Winterson [2000]
69. My Name is Red [ Tên tôi là Đỏ] - Orhan Pamuk [2001]
68. Out Stealing Horses - Per Petterson [2005]
67. The Kindly Ones [ Những kẻ thiện tâm] - Jonathan Littell [2009]
66. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [2004]
65. Peeling the Onion - Günter Grass [2007]
64. Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times - Neil Astley biên soạn [2002]
63. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature -Steven Pinker [2002]
62. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters [2002]
61. The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst [2004]
60. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Jared Diamond [2005]
59. Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth - Andrew Smith [2005]
58. Dart - Alice Oswald [2002]
57. Fleshmarket Close - Ian Rankin [2004]
56. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor [2002]
55. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad’s Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran [2007]
54. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation - Lynne Truss [2003]
53. Wolf Brother - Michelle Paver [2004]
52. Youth - J. M. Coetzee [2002]
51. Home - Marilynne Robinson [2008]
50. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies - Naomi Klein [2000]
49. The Ghost - Robert Harris [2007]
48. A Short History Of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson [2003]
47. Collected Poems - Ted Hughes [2003]
46. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides [2002]
45. London: The Biography - Peter Ackroyd [2000]
44. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything - Steven D. Levitt và Stephen J. Dubner [2005]
43. Thursbitch - Alan Garner [2003]
42. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel [2006]
41. The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry [2008]
40. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Simon Armitage dịch [2007]
39. Runaway - Alice Munro [2005]
38. The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression - Andrew Solomon [2001]
37. William Trevor: The Collected Stories [2009]
36. How I Live Now - Meg Rosoff [2004]
35. The Arrival - Shaun Tan [2006]
34. Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand [2001]
33. Chronicles: Volume One - Bob Dylan [2004]
32. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer [2002]
31. The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel [2006]
30. The Kite Runner [ Người đua diều] - Khaled Hosseini [2003]
29. The Accidental - Ali Smith [2005]
28. The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century - Alex Ross [2007]
27. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004]
26. Bad Blood - Lorna Sage [2000]
25. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon [2003]
24. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro [2005]
23. The 9/11 Commission Report [2004]
22. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman [2000]
21. The Plot Against America - Philip Roth [2004]
20. White Teeth - Zadie Smith [2000]
19. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen [2001]
18. Bad Science - Ben Goldacre [2008]
17. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Harry Potter và Bảo bối Tử thần] - J. K. Rowling [2007]
16. Rapture - Carol Ann Duffy [2005]
15. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins [2006]
14. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi [2003]
13. Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald [2001]
12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers [2000]
11. War and Peace [Chiến tranh và Hòa bình] - Leo Tolstoy, bản dịch tiếng Anh mới của Richard Pevear và Larissa Volokhonsky [2007]