The Millions's "The Best Fiction of the Millennium (So Far)"

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"It’s a bit early, of course, to pass definitive judgment on the literary legacy of the ’00s, or how it stacks up against that of the 1930s, or 1850s. Who knows what will be read 50 years from now? But, with the end of the decade just a few months away, it seemed to us at The Millions a good time to pause and take stock, to call your attention to books worthy of it, and perhaps to begin a conversation.

To that end, we’ve conducted a poll of our regular contributors and 48 of our favorite writers, editors, and critics (listed below), asking a single question: “What are the best books of fiction of the millennium, so far?” The results were robust, diverse, and surprising."

  1. 1.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  2. 2.
    The Known World
    by Edward P. Jones

  3. 3.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

  4. 4.
    2666: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolaño

  5. 5.
    Pastoralia
    by George Saunders

  6. 6.
    The Road
    by Cormac McCarthy

  7. 7.
    Austerlitz
    by W G Sebald

  8. 8.
    Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
    by Per Petterson

  9. 9.

  10. 10.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  11. 11.
    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
    by Junot Diaz

  12. 12.
    Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
    by Deborah Eisenberg

  13. 13.
    Mortals
    by Norman Rush

  14. 14.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

  15. 15.
    Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
    by Lydia Davis

  16. 16.
    Middlesex
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

  17. 17.
    The Fortress of Solitude
    by Jonathan Lethem

  18. 18.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link

  19. 19.
    American Genius: A Comedy
    by Lynne Tillman

  20. 20.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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Created by frbrown on Jan 20, 2010.
 

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