Lists of Bests: The New Canon http://www.listsofbests.com/list/63465 The new canon focuses on great works of fiction published after 1985. The post-modern novel is a slippery thing. It easily collapses into self-parody or even an attack on its own sustaining principles. After all, when everything is deconstructed, why should the deconstructor be exempted? When the pundit insists that “no standpoint is privileged and no discourse is objectively true,” the most appropriate response is: “Same to you, buddy.” Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:14:06 GMT en-us 0 50 40 0 0 Love in the Time of Cholera http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943466 <div id="position">1</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div> Infinite Jest http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2146934"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316066524.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Foster Wallace</div> The Handmaid's Tale http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437046 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5437046"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dTGb7b4YL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Eleanor Atwood</div> Beloved http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28911"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400033411.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Toni Morrison</div> The Corrections: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6393"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421273.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122533764_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Franzen</div> Underworld http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2069212 <div id="position">6</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Don DeLillo</div> 2666 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5845954 <div id="position">7</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Bolano</div> House of Leaves http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1867494 <div id="position">8</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Z. Danielewski</div> Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18594 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18594"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679641041.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Cormac Mccarthy</div> American Pastoral http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9027"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375701427.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1123891143_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Fortress of Solitude http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375724885.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jonathan Lethem</div> Kafka on the Shore http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3204951 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3204951"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01dolVXOaqL.jpg" /></a></div> The Known World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/341251"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061159174.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Edward P. Jones</div> Atonement http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64741 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64741"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0099429799.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ian McEwan</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2943385 <div id="position">15</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> The Human Stain: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9277"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375726349.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1125097141_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Philip Roth</div> The Feast of the Goat: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6373 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6373"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312420277.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056430915_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mario Vargas Llosa</div> Gilead: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/123162"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/031242440X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marilynne Robinson</div> Cloud Atlas: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/8947"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375507256.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V39328843_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by David Mitchell</div> Blindness http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4387701 <div id="position">20</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jose Saramago</div> Austerlitz (Modern Library Paperbacks) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9342"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0375756566.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Winfried Georg Sebald</div> The Secret History http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/71029"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400031702.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Donna Tartt</div> The English Patient http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18890"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679745203.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464945_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Ondaatje</div> Possession: A Romance http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18800"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679735909.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. Byatt</div> The Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5184987 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5184987"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01QzTqAJ8QL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by McCarthy Cormac</div> Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/564878 <div id="position">26</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by J.K. Rowling</div> The God of Small Things http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2778358 <div id="position">27</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Arundhati Roy</div> The Savage Detectives: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3339687 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3339687"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11UOEnvfB%2BL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Roberto Bolano</div> New York Trilogy (Green Integer) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813547 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813547"><img src="http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/01vx+LgO2QL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Paul Auster</div> Bel Canto (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/52962"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060838728.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ann Patchett</div> The Famished Road http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10226 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10226"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385425139.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ben Okri</div> Netherland (Vintage Contemporaries) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5959305 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5959305"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41c4DG00XRL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph O'Neill</div> The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19092"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679775439.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Haruki Murakami</div> Special Topics in Calamity Physics http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2197509"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143112120.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V46672918_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Marisha Pessl</div> The Master: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/358753"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743250419.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Colm Toibin</div> Tree of Smoke: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3640159 <div id="position">36</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Denis Johnson</div> Empire Falls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9279 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/9279"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0375726403.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by RICHARD RUSSO</div> The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/28898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400032717.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Haddon</div> the sea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1720164 <div id="position">39</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Banville</div> The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3509876 <div id="position">40</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Junot Díaz</div>