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Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors

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