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. 151.
    Open Secrets: Stories
    by Alice Munro

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  2. 152.
    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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  3. 153.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  4. 154.
    Mama Day
    by Gloria Naylor

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  5. 155.
    Everything and More
    by Geoff Nicholson

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  6. 156.
    Wonderland (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  7. 157.
    A Fanatic Heart
    by Edna O'Brien

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  8. 158.
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    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

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  9. 159.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

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  10. 160.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

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  11. 161.
    The Puttermesser Papers: A Novel
    by Cynthia Ozick

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  12. 162.
    Enormous Changes at the Last Minute: Stories
    by Grace Paley

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  13. 163.
    Martin and John: A Novel
    by Dale Peck

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  14. 164.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

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  15. 165.
    Machine Dreams
    by Jayne Anne Phillips

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  16. 166.
    Braided Lives
    by Marge Piercy

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  17. 167.
    Gold Bug Variations
    by Richard Powers

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  18. 168.
    Kate Vaiden
    by Reynolds Price

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  19. 169.
    Clockers
    by Richard Price

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  20. 170.
    Postcards (Scribner Classics)
    by Annie Proulx

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  21. 171.
    The Fortunate Pilgrim
    by Mario Puzo

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  22. 172.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  23. 173.
    Flight to Canada
    by Ishmael Reed

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  24. 174.
    Interview with the Vampire
    by Anne Rice

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  25. 175.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins

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  26. 176.
    The Counterlife
    by Philip Roth

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  27. 177.
    Mating: A Novel
    by Norman Rush

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  28. 178.
    The Moor's Last Sigh
    by Salman Rushdie

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  29. 179.
    The Risk Pool
    by Richard Russo

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  30. 180.
    A Sport and a Pastime: A Novel
    by James Salter

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  31. 181.
    Clover
    by Dori Sanders

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  32. 182.
    Various Antidotes: Stories
    by Joanna Scott

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  33. 183.
    Great Apes (Self, Will)
    by Will Self

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  34. 184.
    The Golden Gate
    by Vikram Seth

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  35. 185.
    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields

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  36. 186.
    Anywhere but Here
    by Mona Simpson

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  37. 187.
    The Age of Grief
    by Jane Smiley

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  38. 188.
    Devil's Dream
    by Lee Smith

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  39. 189.
    Blue Movie (Southern, Terry)
    by Terry Southern

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  41. 191.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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  42. 192.
    Endless Love
    by Scott Spencer

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  43. 193.
    Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Wallace Stegner

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  44. 194.
    Snow Crash.
    by Neal Stephenson

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  45. 195.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

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  46. 196.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by William Styron

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  47. 197.
    Valley of the Dolls (Susann, Jacqueline)
    by Jacqueline Susann

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  48. 198.
    Last Orders
    by Graham Swift

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  49. 199.

  50. 200.
    The Mosquito Coast
    by Paul Theroux

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