Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

A 15-year-old boy on the autism spectrum, self-described as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties,” discovers the neighbor’s dead dog in the yard. What unfolds is an immense and winding tale in which Christopher John Francis Boone discovers his father has told a terrible lie. His trust in his father irreparably fractured, Christopher goes on a journey to discover what really happened to his mother two years ago.

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