Tubridy Show Books of the Decade

Chosen by Fiona Mc Cann (Irish Times), Jennifer Ryan (Image Magazine) and author Declan Hughes

Fiction

The Book of Lost Things John Connolly

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers

The Gathering Anne Enright

Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides

The Corrections Jonathan Franzen

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

Atonement Ian Mc Ewan

On ChesilBeach Ian Mc Ewan

Mystic River Dennis Lehane

What the Dead Know Laura Lippman

Cloud Atlas David Mitchell

Suite Francaise Irène Nemirovsky

The Book of Shadows Don Paterson

The Damned United David Peace

Fleshmarket Close Ian Rankin

Gilead Marilynne Robinson

Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer

We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver

The Broken Shore Peter Temple

The Master Colm Tóibín

Children’s Fiction

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne

The Incredible Book-Eating Boy Oliver Jeffers

The Amber Spyglass Philip Pullman

Biography/Auto-Biography

Experience Martin Amis

Tragic Honesty: The Life of Richard Yates Blake Bailey

The Life of Kingsley Amis Zachary Leader

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood and the Story of a Return Marjane Satrapi

Factual

The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion

The Third Reich at War Richard J. Evans

One Market Under God Thomas Frank

A People’s History of Britain Rebecca Fraser

Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the RomanRepublic Tom Holland

Freakonomics Levitt & Dubner

The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan

Fiasco Thomas Ricks

Connemara 1: Listening to the Wind, Connemara 2: The Last Pool of

Darkness Tim Robinson

The Dirt - Motley Crue: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band Strauss, Lee, Neil, Mars, Sixx