New York Times' Best Fiction Books of the Past Five Years

1. 1. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Drag me to re-order

2. 2. On Beauty by Zadie Smith Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Prep: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld Drag me to re-order

4. 4. Saturday by Ian McEwan Drag me to re-order

5. 5. Veronica: A Novel by Mary Gaitskill Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson Drag me to re-order

7. 7. The Master: A Novel by Colm Toibin Drag me to re-order

8. 8. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Runaway by Alice Munro Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Snow by Orhan Pamuk Drag me to re-order

11. 11. War Trash by Ha Jin Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Brick Lane: A Novel by Monica Ali Drag me to re-order

13. 13. Drop City by T.C. Boyle Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Drag me to re-order

15. 15. The Known World: A Novel by Edward P. Jones Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Drag me to re-order

17. 17. Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Roscoe by William Kennedy Drag me to re-order

20. 20. Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Winfried Georg Sebald Drag me to re-order

21. 21. Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox Drag me to re-order

22. 22. The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen Drag me to re-order

23. 23. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro Drag me to re-order

24. 24. John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead Drag me to re-order

25. 25. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Being Dead: A Novel by Jim Crace Drag me to re-order

27. 27. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike Drag me to re-order

29. 29. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers Drag me to re-order

30. 30. The Human Stain: A Novel by Philip Roth Drag me to re-order

31. 31. White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith Drag me to re-order

32. 32. Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx Drag me to re-order

33. 33. Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee Drag me to re-order

34. 34. Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Michael Frayn Drag me to re-order

35. 35. A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) by Roddy Doyle Drag me to re-order

36. 36. Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore Drag me to re-order

37. 37. Cloudsplitter: A Novel by Russell Banks Drag me to re-order

38. 38. The Love of a Good Woman : Stories by Alice Munro Drag me to re-order

39. 39. The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Preston Falls: A Novel by David Gates Drag me to re-order

41. 41. American Pastoral by Philip Roth Drag me to re-order

42. 42. The Blue Flowers (New Directions Paperbook) by Raymond Queneau Drag me to re-order

43. 43. Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Drag me to re-order