And, Meanderings was right, not to toot our own horn. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao really was the best book of the decade, experts bedamned.
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With all due respect to Meanderings, its readers, The Millions, its readers, and its panel, any list of the best books of this young millennium that doesn’t include Everything Is Illuminated is, in this English major’s admittedly myopic opinion, suspect at best. I read Middlesex, Atonement, and Kavalier and Klay, and EI2 blows those books out of the literary water. What gives!