12.21.2009

Top 5 list’s 2000 to 2009

I thought that I would take a stab at joining the “best of ____ list” makers that are popping up all over this time of year. So, here are a few of my TOP 5’s for the decade (2000 – 2009):

Top 5 Novels

1. Snakes and Earrings (2005) by Hitomi Kanehara
2. The Swarm (2007) by Frank Schatzing
3. Move Under Ground (2004) by Nick Mamatas
4. American Gods (2002) by Neil Gaiman
5. End of the Alphabet (2007) by C. S. Richardson

Top 10 Short Story Collections or Anthologies

1. The Toughest Indian in the World (2001) by Sherman Alexie
2. Overclocked (2007) by Cory Doctorow
3. Little Black Book of Stories (2003) by A. S. Byatt
4. Rewired (2007) edited by James Patrick Kelly
5. The Space Opera Renaissance (2007) edited by David G. Hartwell

Top 5 Non-fiction books

1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded (2008) by Thomas L. Friedman
2. 1776 (2005) by David McCullough
3. An Inconvenient Truth (2006) by Al Gore
4. The Immortal Class (2001) by Travis Hugh Culley
5. If Chins Could Kill (2001) by Bruce Campbell

Top 5 Graphic Novels

1. Little White Mouse Omnibus Edition (2006) by Paul Sizer
2. Shooting War (2008) by Anthony Lappe
3. Fall of Cthulhu (2008) by Michael Alan Nelson
4. Burnout (2008) by Rebecca Donner
5. Comic Book Tattoo (2008) edited by Rantz A. Hoseley

I’m sure that there are other books that should have been included in my list, but this is my list, and these are the books that have helped to shape my ideas about the last 10 years. 

1 comments:

Michelle (Red Headed Book Child) said...

I get way too stressed out to name my lists. I just love way too many for way too many reasons!

You have a lot of good ones, though.

Hope you had a great holiday!