Best Books of the ‘00’s

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  hhuseland on November 27 at 2:17 p.m.

  I don’t know how any fiction list would exclude Tom Clancy or W.E.B.Griffin.

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  Sam_Crawford on November 27 at 3:36 p.m.

  I enjoyed “The Devil In The White City”. This book gives a history of the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair and has crime and suspense thrown in for excitement.

  I would add two long books by Ken Follett to the (historical) fiction list, “World Without End” and “The Pillars of the Earth”.

  Both detail the building of a cathedral in England during the middle ages. They both deal with the same cathedral but the time period of each book is about 100 years apart. Each gives great insight into the living, religious, medical and political conditions of the period.

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  hmoffsuite on November 27 at 3:44 p.m.

  >>> “Both detail the building of a cathedral in England during the middle ages.”

  That’s one I’ll catch on the History Channel.

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  Lizard_People on November 28 at 5:00 p.m.

  I’d vote for 2004’s “War Trash”, a novel by Ha Jin, about a conscripted Chinese soldier captured by the Americans during the Korean War. The novel had to do with the division between the pro-Nationalist POWs destined for patriation to Taiwan, vs. the communists, destined for re-patriation to China.

  Runner up: Mergers and Acquisitions, by Dana Vachon. A fun novel about the amorality of investment banking.

  Non-fiction: Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Pat Buchanan

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