As the decade draws to an end, we look at the books that have defined the first 10 years of the century – and Sam Jordison reveals the Guardian bloggers' worst books of the noughties.
We have a reading from the only poetry collection to make it into Saturday Review's top 50. Plus we ask an array of Guardian writers and editors for their must-reads of the last 10 years.
Podcast books of the decade:
Fiction
The Human Stain, by Philip Roth (Vintage)
No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Picador)
My Elvis Blackout by Simon Crump (Bloomsbury)
The Jones family trilogy – August, I'll Go to Bed at Noon and A Curious Earth by Gerard Woodward (Vintage)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (Faber)
Unless, by Carol Shields (4th Estate)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (Vintage)
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (Harper Perennial)
Runaway by Alice Munro (Vintage)
Non-fiction
Bad Blood, by Lorna Sage (Harper Perennial)
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion (Harper Perennial)
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Penguin)
Why Most Things Fail: And How to Avoid It, by Paul Ormerod (Faber)
Landing Light, by Don Patterson (Faber)
