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

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)

A teenage girl suffers a terrible fate and watches from Heaven has her family struggles to move on with their lives after her death while her killer roams free. The film adaptation, directed by Peter Jackson, was released in 2009.

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