My 25 Favorite Books of the '00s!

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)
Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon by Will Brooker (2000)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (2000)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand (2001)
Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad (2002)
Word Freak by Stefan Fastis (2002)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (2003)
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (2003)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer (2003)
The Meaning of Ichiro by Robert Whiting (2004)
Neither Here Nor There by the Melvins (2004)
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner (2005)
Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovenden (2005)
TV A-Go-Go by Jake Austen (2005)
Blackstock's Collections by Gregory L. Blackstock (2006)
Vanishing Seattle by Clark Humphrey (2006)
The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting by Jim Walsh (2007)
Spider-Man: The Icon by Steve Saffel (2007)
Watching Baseball Smarter by Zach Hample (2007)
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth (2008)
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine (2008)
The Art of Tony Millionaire by Tony Millionaire (2009)
Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend by Joshua Blu Buhs (2009)
Under Their Thumb by Bill German (2009)
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