Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors

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The best books, as chosen by the authors of the Salon.com Reader’s Guide, by all the authors profiled in the book.

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  1. 1.
    The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics)
    by Edward Abbey

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  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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  3. 3.
    Empire of the Senseless
    by Kathy Acker

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  4. 4.
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    by Sherman Alexie

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  5. 5.
    Trash
    by Dorothy Allison

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  6. 6.
    !Yo!
    by Julia Alvarez

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  7. 7.
    The Information
    by Martin Amis

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  8. 8.
    The Hundred Brothers
    by Donald Antrim

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  9. 9.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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  10. 10.
    The Invention of Solitude: A Memoir
    by Paul Auster

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    The Fermata
    by Nicholson Baker

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  12. 12.
    Empire of the Sun
    by J. G. Ballard

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  13. 13.
    Continental Drift (P.S.)
    by Russell Banks

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    The BOOK OF EVIDENCE
    by John Banville

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  15. 15.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

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  16. 16.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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  17. 17.
    Chimera
    by John Barth

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  18. 18.
    Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme

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  19. 19.
    The Watch (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Rick Bass

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    Rebel Powers
    by Richard Bausch

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  21. 21.
    Park City: New and Selected Stories
    by Ann Beattie

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  22. 22.
    About Schmidt (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Louis Begley

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  23. 23.
    The Year of Silence (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Madison Smartt Bell

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  24. 24.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  25. 25.
    Once in Europa
    by John Berger

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  26. 26.
    Neighbors: A Novel
    by Thomas Berger

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  27. 27.
    Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
    by Gina Berriault

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    Let the Dog Drive: A Novel
    by David Bowman

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  29. 29.
    Riven Rock
    by T.C. Boyle

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  30. 30.
    Trout Fishing in America
    by Richard Brautigan

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  31. 31.
    Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Picador Books)
    by Harold Brodkey

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  32. 32.
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner

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  33. 33.
    Hot Water Music
    by Charles Bukowski

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  34. 35.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
    by Robert Olen Butler

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  35. 36.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  36. 37.
    The Palace Thief: Stories
    by Ethan Canin

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  37. 38.
    Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition
    by Peter Carey

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  38. 39.
    The Alienist: A Novel
    by Caleb Carr

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  39. 40.
    Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
    by Angela Carter

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  40. 41.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  41. 42.
    Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Michael Chabon

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  42. 43.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

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  43. 44.
    The Beans of Egypt, Maine: The Finished Version
    by Carolyn Chute

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  45. 46.
    The House of Sleep
    by Jonathan Coe

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  46. 47.
    Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  47. 48.
    Goodbye Without Leaving
    by Laurie Colwin

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  48. 49.
    Guide
    by Dennis Cooper

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  49. 50.
    The Public Burning
    by Robert Coover

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reenum
Kansas City

Updated list — 2 years ago

I added the best books by all the authors profiled in the book. This seems to be a much more workable approach than listing all the books by them, which numbers well over a thousand.