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Mark Demeny's "Best of American Contemporary Fiction"

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. The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
 
2. White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Don DeLillo
 
3. Drop City
by T.C. Boyle
 
4. The Human Stain: A Novel
by Philip Roth
 
5. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
 
6. Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
7. The Bonfire of the Vanities
by TOM WOLFE
 
8. A Widow for One Year
by JOHN IRVING
 
9. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
by Douglas Coupland
 
10. American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
 
This is Mark Demeny's list. Only Mark Demeny can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Mark Demeny on Mar 22, 2006.