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Best of The best books of the ’00s

Here are our picks for the 30 most unforgettable books published this decade.

November 25, 2009 | 12:02am -
Book Review Ben Yagoda: Memoir: A History

This book is an entertaining history of memoirs, not a personal memoir/history.

November 25, 2009 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review The Cribs: Ignore The Ignorant

Feeling creatively stifled? Ask Johnny Marr to join your band.

November 10, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Author of Our Noise: The Story Of Merge Records on indie-rock and getting old

The label that brought the world Spoon and The Magnetic Fields—among many others—gets the book-length treatment from a guy who knows.

October 20, 2009 | 11:00pm -
Book Review Nicholas Thompson: The Hawk And The Dove

A double biography of two authors of Cold War policy is a little too pat, but finely detailed.

October 1, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Allison Hoover Bartlett : The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

This non-fiction profile of battling book obsessives suffers from its own obsession with forced narrative.

September 24, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Sam Tanenhaus: The Death Of Conservatism

This isn't the usual partisan slapdown of the opposition, it's a too-brief political-history primer on the far sides of the American policy battle.

September 17, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review T.R. Reid: The Healing Of America

Does the U.S. have a moral obligation toward universal health care? One journalist says yes, and explains how as well as why.

September 10, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review John V. Fleming: The Anti-Communist Manifestos

Four bestsellers that helped establish the mentality of the Cold War get re-examined and recontextualized.

September 3, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory Don’t try to wake me in the morning: 36 (mostly excellent) songs to soundtrack your suicide

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August 31, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review John Buntin: L.A. Noir

For 30 years, a police chief and a gangster battled over L.A. This is their story.

August 27, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson: The Battle For America 2008

A shockingly even-handed analysis of the 2008 election picks apart the tactics and hints at the future of politics.

August 13, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Patrick Radden Keefe: The Snakehead

This compelling real-life thriller about illegal immigration in the ’80s might as well be fiction.

August 6, 2009 | 12:00am -
Interview Andrew Bujalski

The noted "mumblecore" director—though you shouldn't use that term around him—talks aobut lawsuits, taking criticism, and his new film, Beeswax.

August 5, 2009 | 11:00pm -
Inventory Are you faux-real? 18 “documentaries” that blur the line between truth and fiction

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August 3, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory You rarely get a second chance to make a first impression: 23 pop songs that lived twice (or more)

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July 27, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Richard Holmes: The Age Of Wonder

A terrific overview of science in the Romantic era gets specific about discoveries and discoverers without missing out on a broad sweep of the era.

July 23, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Nick Laird: Glover’s Mistake

Zadie Smith's poet husband returns to novels with his second book, a spare dark comedy.

July 16, 2009 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Are Sound

The Dandys take a second look at their best album, and kinda screw it up.

July 14, 2009 | 12:00am -
Gateways To Geekery P.G. Wodehouse

Where to start with the polite, dry, funny work of a prolific author.

July 9, 2009 | 12:01am -
Book Review Richard Bernstein: The East, The West, And Sex

This non-fiction book sounds prurient, but it's all scholarly remove… until the author's tastes show through.

June 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory Caught in my shadow: 21 unjustly unheralded sidemen

The A.V. Club's weekly list makes an encore appearance.

May 29, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Charlie Haas: The Enthusiast

A screenwriter breaks into writing novels, with a book about a journalistic jack of all strange trades.

May 28, 2009 | 12:00am -
Book Review Michael Lewis: Home Game

A popular sports writer gets personal with his thoughts on why he might be a terrible father.

May 21, 2009 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review White Rabbits: It’s Frightening

So good it's frightening! No, really.

May 19, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory Who gets custody of inspiration? 14 memorable entertainments inspired by real-life divorces

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May 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Brakesbrakesbrakes: Touchdown

The hard work of being a workaday band.

April 28, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory I just want a bit part in your life: 24 musicians who aced acting roles

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April 13, 2009 | 12:00am -
MusicalWork Review Extra Golden: Thank You Very Quickly

Afropop comparisons are not just for Vampire Weekend anymore.

March 10, 2009 | 12:00am -
Inventory Hey, things could be worse: 21 great films to put the recession in perspective

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March 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

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