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

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)

After seven years and a film adaptation, Gillian Flynn’s third novel was truly a game-changer. New York transplant Nick Dunne finds himself pinned for murder when his wife, Amy, disappears on the couple’s fifth anniversary, upending what seems like an idyllic marriage from the outside. However, everything is far from what it appears to be.

Hippos have the largest mouths of any animal on land.
A species of squid has been observed to leap from the ocean by using pressurized water jets to achieve flight, going as far as 98 feet!
Mount Rushmore cost less than $1 million.
A Boeing 747 airliner is made of over 6,000,000 separate parts.

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

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2012)

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