No Irish published book is included in Eason’s best 50 reads of the noughties. The titles were voted for by memebers of the Eason online book club.
Irish Author John Boyne was voted as the number one book of the decade. Several other Irish authors did appear on the list including John Banville, Sebastian Barry, Roddy Doyle, Anne Enright, Colum McCann, John McGahern, Joseph O’Connor and Com Toibin. However in all cases, the book in question has been published by a non-Irish publisher.
The complete list of titles is below:
~ ~ ~ ~ 1: The Boy In The Striped Pjyamas, John Boyne
2: The Time Travellers Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
3: The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
4: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
5: The Curious Incident Of The Dog, Haddon Mark
6: The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
7: The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
8: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
9: The Road, Cormac McCarthy
10: Atonement, Ian McEwan11: We Need To Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
12: The Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
13: Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
14: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
15: The Secret Life Of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd
16: The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
17: His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
18: The Shadow Of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
19: Q & A, Vikas Swarup
20: Brooklyn, Colm Toibin21: The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
22: The Memory Keepers Daughter, Kim Edwards
23: Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre
24: The Girl With A Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
25: The True History Of The Kelly Gang, Peter Carey
26: The Constant Gardener, John Le Carre
27: Let The Great World Spin, Colum Mccann
28: Star Of The Sea, Joseph O’Connor
29: When Will There Be Good News, Kate Atkinson
30: A Long Long Way, Sebastian Barry31: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke
32: The Island, Victoria Hislop
33: Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami
34: No Country For Old Men, Cormac McCarthy
35: The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
36: The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
37: Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
38: That They May Face The Rising Sun, John Mcgahern
39: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell
40: The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga41: Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts
42: The American Wife, Curtis Sittenfeld
43: I’m Not Scared, Niccolo Ammaniti
44: The Sea, John Banville
45: A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle
46: Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
47: Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
48: The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid
49: Notes On A Scandal, Zoe Heller
50: The Gathering, Anne Enright
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