Lists of Bests: New York Times' Best Fiction Books of the Past Five Years http://www.listsofbests.com/list/3480 Thu, 31 May 2012 15:13:32 GMT en-us 0 50 43 0 0 Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/82736"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61S4qiYiwTL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> On Beauty http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46327 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46327"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1594200637.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V54316845_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Prep: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67700"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41bZhiDbLQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Curtis Sittenfeld</div> Saturday http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10503 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10503"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418QUoHdhOL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Veronica: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70874 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70874"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375421459.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Gaitskill</div> Gilead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8427 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8427"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0374153892.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> The Master: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517KoY9RmaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> The Plot Against America http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/60479"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51P3VkiW6VL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> Runaway http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88494 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/88494"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515W530EB1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> Snow http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8701 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8701"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416YN5G4V3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Orhan Pamuk</div> War Trash http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46252 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46252"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QHF9SRVEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ha Jin</div> Brick Lane: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21060 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21060"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51W6004JQML._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Monica Ali</div> Drop City http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3639"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VC7795VBL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by T.C. Boyle</div> The Fortress of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51w7euH3gmL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> The Known World: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/865"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d8bh%2BcAaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21150 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21150"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510TA2HMBJL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc</div> Atonement: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10563"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fS5vrBjZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> Middlesex: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6406"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41i5MhshNKL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jeffrey Eugenides</div> Roscoe http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3578"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X0DJHuxcL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Kennedy</div> Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41GA06C9KEL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> Borrowed Finery http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589717 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589717"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21YRJ3BWD6L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paula Fox</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51wr09D9LZL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589718 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/589718"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ETW5V6G3L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> John Henry Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46817 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/46817"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001PBY5O.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colson Whitehead</div> True History of the Kelly Gang http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205230 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/205230"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000AKXD6I.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Peter Carey</div> Being Dead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6036"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lWmIGHXbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jim Crace</div> Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10942"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gQ5CjZXtL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Gertrude and Claudius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13398 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13398"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41809218WYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Updike</div> A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9267"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51gD4huNtaL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dave Eggers</div> The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BnKKxqd2L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> White Teeth: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9073"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41wIEttzK9L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zadie Smith</div> Close Range: Wyoming Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94158 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/94158"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ET2CH6W0L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Annie Proulx</div> Disgrace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3065"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31SA0MG5P1L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J. M. Coetzee</div> Headlong: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5999 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5999"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RJBJ52NYL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Frayn</div> A Star Called Henry (The Last Roundup) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75855 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/75855"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51pMenUYngL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roddy Doyle</div> Birds of America: Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5932"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41EFR7JZTVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Lorrie Moore</div> Cloudsplitter: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1301 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1301"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A9ap3o6yL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Russell Banks</div> The Love of a Good Woman : Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9067 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9067"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41twusYiKbL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alice Munro</div> The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/660 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/660"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060512822.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122531326_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> Preston Falls: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18978 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18978"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V2JC7K9CL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Gates</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51z-DuG4wVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Blue Flowers (New Directions Paperbook) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/560848 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/560848"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b78tMbIIL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Raymond Queneau</div> Mason & Dixon: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/81861"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kYzNfv63L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Thomas Pynchon</div>