I like lists. This one just came out in the NYTimes and covers the best American fiction of the last 25 years. I suppose I will finally have to break down and read Delillo. My boyfriend goes on and on about Pynchon and Delillo, especially in regards to my Haruki crush I am going through right now. I should start a "his" and "her" book list. I have to say that I am enjoying Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, but not as much as The Wind-up Bird Chronicles (so far at least.) I do look forward to my morning run while listening to The Fellowship of the Rings on my ipod … I'm on disc 6 already!
THE WINNER:
Beloved
Toni Morrison
(1987)
THE RUNNERS-UP:
Underworld
Don DeLillo
(1997)
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
(1985)
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
John Updike
(1995)
Review: 'Rabbit at Rest'
(1990)
Review: 'Rabbit Is Rich'
(1981)
Review: 'Rabbit Redux'
(1971)
'Rabbit, Run'(1960)
American Pastoral
Philip Roth (1997)
THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ALSO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES:
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
(1980)
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
(1980)
(This book was not reviewed by The Times.)
Winter's Tale
Mark Helprin
(1983)
White Noise
Don DeLillo (1985)
The Counterlife
Philip Roth
(1986)
Libra
Don DeLillo
(1988)
Where I'm Calling From
Raymond Carver
(1988)
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
(1990)
Mating
Norman Rush
(1991)
Jesus' Son
Denis Johnson
(1992)
Operation Shylock
Philip Roth
(1993)
Independence Day
Richard Ford
(1995)
Sabbath's Theater
Philip Roth
(1995)
Border Trilogy
Cormac McCarthy
(1999)
Review: 'Cities of the Plain'
(1998)
Review: 'The Crossing'
(1994)
Review: 'All the Pretty Horses'
(1992)
The Human Stain
Philip Roth
(2000)
The Known World
Edward P. Jones
(2003)
The Plot Against America
Philip Roth
(2004)
