The BEST BOOKS from 2000 | A look back on the LITERARY world, recommendations, and reading vlog📚🥳🤭

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0:00 intro
1:03 the idea!
2:43 TBR
7:01 The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
18:44 Books, News, Book Prizes in 2000
30:48 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
38:57 Steve’s lists!
50:30 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
55:56 Final thoughts 💭

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[mercedehb]

Great project!! One of your best videos so far.. very engaging and informative. Look forward to the rest of the years.

[minzoforever]

Hello. Recent subscriber from Rwanda here. Just want to say I absolutely love your channel and working my way through your previous reviews.

[marciajohansson]

Wow I have only read Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz and Open House by Elizabeth Berg and possibly John Grisham's The Brethren. As I look through the list of books published in 2000 I have picked up a few but have not read them yet! Barbara Kingsolver, Kazuo Ishiguro, Zadie Smith, Malcom Gladwell, Jhumpa Lahiri... I mentioned on someone else's channel that there was a comic strip called The Pluggers. In the strip the "plugger" was looking at the new cars. When approached by the sales person he responded that he was just looking to see what he would be driving in 10 years. That is going to be me with new releases. LOL I have a lot of catching up to do!

[mhazelim]

love this throwback! i hope to know more from other eras as well and i wish to see books that are out of print but worthy of reprint content too soon!

[Ali-AvidReader]

Great video! I like the sound of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and have added it to my list.

[CharlieBrookReads]

The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay sounds really good, added it to my wishlist. ❤

[spreadbookjoy]

This is a great project! I met Jeffrey Archer before he was prosecuted and went to prison as he did a signing at the bookshop I worked at. I remember that The Truth was the 25th Discworld novel as that was emblazoned on the front of the hardback. Never read any Greg Bear but remember his chunky sf books in my fantasy sf section (one of the sections I ran way back when!). Persepolis sounds great as does The amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Great vlog! There are some great books in 2001!

[angelalakes]

Great video and great idea for a series- I look forward to more. I ordered Kavalier and Clay the other day and it's on the way!

[pamelatarajcak]

So saving this video! Thinking about doing the Years of My Life (or whatever it's called) that Criminolly is doing reading a book sequentially on every year I have been alive. I've been looking up lists from each year and 2000 is pretty thin on choice so far.

[fractured_stories]

I’m really excited for this new series you are doing. I think it’s a smashing idea. I have had Cavalier and Clay on my shelf for years now and I keep meaning to get to it. The only Chabon book I have read is Telegraph Avenue and I was impressed with his writing.

[brandar]

Excited for more in this series! Kav and Clay is just wonderful ✨

[kolst]

The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri was very good. This was a good idea; please keep doing these yearly reviews.

[larajean]

This was a cool video! I turned 30 in 2000 and was pregnant with my first child by the end of 2000. My husband and I were planning a move to London, UK which happened in January 2001 but we've been back in NYC since 2003. My first baby is a mechanical engineer now! Time flies. Anyway... I have read or know about more of the books you mentioned from that year than I thought I would. I love "The Adventures of Cavalier and Klay"...it is awesome and it is challenging in length and detail....but a great read. I own Persepolis so you've inspired me to move that one to the top of my TBR.

[GuiltyFeat]

Such a great video. Thanks. I was a little concerned when you picked The True History of the Kelly Gang. It is not one of Carey’s more accessible books. He writes very dense novels but there are a couple that are a little lighter on their feet that you might enjoy more - Oscar & Lucinda or Theft.

Chabon is always fantastic. He has an excellent middle-grade book called Summerland which is a delight and The Yiddish Policeman’s Union is a masterpiece.

Now I want to revisit 2000 and see all the things I read from that year.

[deborajohnson]

I loved this video! I can’t wait til the next installment

[OrangeLibrary]

2000 was still the 20th century. Also, I read 'Invasion' by Eric L. Harry published in 2000.

[starlasell]

❤📚❤️ The only 2000 books I've read that I can think of are Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling and Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. I do own The Blind Assassin, but I haven't read it yet.
Such a great video, Shelly!! It's fun looking back.

[bjminton]

This is a fun project! Two of my favorites from 2000 are Running Blind by Lee Child and A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly. John Grisham's A Painted House is one you might enjoy. It is way too accurate and too sad for me to call it a favorite. Winn-Dixie has been on my TBR for years. I need to move it up!

[mediumjohnsilver]

Checking my private “card catalog”, I see that among my year 2000 books I have _Designing and Programming CICS Applications, Building Internet Firewalls, _ and _The Light of Other Days._ As interesting as the first two were, I did actually finish reading the third, which is a science fiction book by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, about a technology that allows people to see anywhere in the past, leaving no crime unsolved, no history unknown, and no secret safe.
A thought: I wonder if we can expect an upcoming book about a schoolteacher and her two rambunctious boys called _The True History of the Shelly Gang._ 😀

[mmfineartstudio]

I was in 5th grade in 2000, and the only book I remember reading during that time was The Hatchet, which started my fear of airplanes 😅 (and I’m sure it wasn’t published in 2000)