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
  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  3. 3.
    Empire of the Senseless: A Novel (Acker, Kathy)
    by Kathy Acker
  4. 4.
    The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
    by Sherman Alexie
  5. 5.
    Trash
    by Dorothy Allison
  6. 6.
    !Yo!
    by Julia Alvarez
  7. 7.
    The Information
    by Martin Amis
  8. 8.
    The Hundred Brothers
    by Donald Antrim
  9. 9.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood
  10. 10.
    The Invention of Solitude
    by Paul Auster
  11. 11.
    The Fermata
    by Nicholson Baker
  12. 12.
    Empire of the Sun
    by J. G. Ballard
  13. 13.
    Continental Drift (P.S.)
    by Russell Banks
  14. 14.
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    The BOOK OF EVIDENCE
    by John Banville
  15. 15.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker
  16. 16.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes
  17. 17.
    Chimera
    by John Barth
  18. 18.
    Sixty Stories (Penguin Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme
  19. 19.
    The Watch: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Rick Bass
  20. 20.
    Rebel Powers
    by Richard Bausch
  21. 21.
    Park City: New and Selected Stories
    by Ann Beattie
  22. 22.
    About Schmidt (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Louis Begley
  23. 23.
    The Year of Silence (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Madison Smartt Bell
  24. 24.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  25. 25.
    Once in Europa
    by John Berger
  26. 26.
    Neighbors: A Novel
    by Thomas Berger
  27. 27.
    Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
    by Gina Berriault
  28. 28.
    ?
    Let the Dog Drive: A Novel
    by David Bowman
  29. 29.
    Riven Rock
    by T.C. Boyle
  30. 30.
    Trout Fishing in America
    by Richard Brautigan
  31. 31.
    Stories in an Almost Classical Mode (Picador Books)
    by Harold Brodkey
  32. 32.
    Hotel Du Lac
    by Anita Brookner
  33. 33.
    Hot Water Music
    by Charles Bukowski
  34. 34.
    Nothing Like the Sun (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess
  35. 35.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
    by Robert Olen Butler
  36. 36.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt
  37. 37.
    The Palace Thief: Stories
    by Ethan Canin
  38. 38.
    Oscar and Lucinda
    by Peter Carey
  39. 39.
    The Alienist
    by Caleb Carr
  40. 40.
    Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
    by Angela Carter
  41. 41.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  42. 42.
    The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
    by Michael Chabon
  43. 43.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever
  44. 44.
    The Beans of Egypt, Maine: The Finished Version
    by Carolyn Chute
  45. 45.
  46. 46.
    The House of Sleep
    by Jonathan Coe
  47. 47.
    Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel
    by J. M. Coetzee
  48. 48.
    Goodbye Without Leaving
    by Laurie Colwin
  49. 49.
    Guide (Cooper, Dennis)
    by Dennis Cooper
  50. 50.
    The Public Burning (Coover, Robert)
    by Robert Coover

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Created by eissme on May 29, 2006.
 

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reenum

Updated list — 6 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.

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