The 100 Best Books of the Decade

Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road has been chosen as the best book of the decade by The Times.

The newspaper compiled a list of 100 books, an incredibly eclectic mix of fiction and non-fiction, with some intriguing choices, including the following books reviewed on Reading Matters:

• Unless by Carol Shields
  

• Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel

• Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

• Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

• The Ghost by Robert Harris

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

• The Accidental by Ali Smith

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• The Plot Against America by Phillip Roth

• The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

• Atonement by Ian McEwan

The full list is available on The Times website.