8 Awesome Books By Women: An '00s Virtual Bookshelf

This isn't a list of the best books of the decade — I've already made it clear how I feel about those. It's just a selection of especially awesome books by women, all published in the '00s.

This isn't a list of the best books of the decade — I've already made it clear how I feel about those. It's just a selection of especially awesome books by women, all published in the '00s.

Is 2009 the year of the female short story writer? Maybe, but some of the literary lionesses on this list have been at it a long time. We'd add Amy Hempel and Lydia Davis to make an even eight. [Guardian]