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EW's "The New Classics: Books"

100 best reads from 1983-2008
(according to EW, obviously)

(found at: http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20207076_20207387_20207349,00.html)

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1. The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
by Cormac McCarthy
  
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by J. K. Rowling
  
3. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
4. The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
  
5. American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
  
6. Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
  
7. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
  
8. Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
  
9. Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
  
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
  
11. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
  
12.
?
 Blindness
by Jose Saramago
  
13. Watchmen
by Alan Moore
  
14. Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
by Joyce Carol Oates
  
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
16. The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
by Margaret Atwood
  
17. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
18.
?
 Rabbit At Rest
by John Updike
  
19. On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
  
20. Bridget Jones's Diary (movie tie-in)
by Helen Fielding
  
21. On Writing
by Stephen King
  
22.
?
 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
  
23. The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
  
24. Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Larry McMurtry
  
25. The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
  
26. Neuromancer
by William Gibson
  
27. Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
  
28. Naked
by David Sedaris
  
29. Bel Canto (P.S.)
by Ann Patchett
  
30. Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
  
31.
?
 The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
  
32. Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63 (America in the King Years (Paperback))
by Taylor Branch
  
33. The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
  
34. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
  
35. The Line of Beauty: A Novel
by Alan Hollinghurst
  
36.
?
 Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
  
37. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
  
38. Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
  
39. Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
  
40. His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass)
by Philip Pullman
  
41. The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
  
42. LaBrava  
43. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette
  
44. Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
by Melissa Fay Greene
  
45. Eva Luna (Spanish Language Edition)
by Isabel Allende
  
46.
?
 The Sandman (series)
by Neil Gaiman
  
47. World's Fair: A Novel
by E.L. Doctorow
  
48. The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club)
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
49. Clockers
by Richard Price
  
50. The Corrections (Oprah's Book Club)
by Jonathan Franzen
  
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Created by K McQuage on Jun 23, 2008.