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Mark Demeny's "Best of American Contemporary Fiction"

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This list is to try to define those authors making a run at the ‘Great American Novel’ and other significant works of the last 40 or so years.

  1. 1.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  2. 2.
    White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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  3. 3.
    Drop City
    by T.C. Boyle

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  4. 4.
    The Human Stain: A Novel
    by Philip Roth

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  5. 5.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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  6. 6.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  7. 7.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by TOM WOLFE

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  8. 8.
    A Widow for One Year
    by JOHN IRVING

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  9. 9.
    Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
    by Douglas Coupland

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  10. 10.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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Created by Mark Demeny on Mar 22, 2006.