100 New Classics

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy (2006)

2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (2000)

3. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

4. The Liars' Club by Mary Karr (1995)

5. American Pastoral by Philip Roth (1997)

6. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane (2001)

7. Maus by Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)

8. Selected Stories by Alice Munro (1996)

9. Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997)

10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1997)

11. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1997)

12. Blindness by José Saramago (1998)

13. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)

14. Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates (1992)

15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (2000)

16. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1986)

17. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (1988)

18. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1990)

19. On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)

20. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1998)

21. On Writing by Stephen King (2000)

22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz (2007)

23. The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (1996)

24. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1985)

25. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)

26. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

27. Possession by A.S. Byatt (1990)

28. Naked by David Sedaris (1997)

29. Bel Canto by Anne Patchett (2001)

30. Case Histories by Kate Atkinson (2004)

31. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)

32. Parting the Waters by Taylor Branch (1988)

33. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (2005)

34. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (2002)

35. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

36. Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (1996)

37. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (2003)

38. Birds of America by Lorrie Moore (1998)

39. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)

40. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (1995-2000)

41. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984)

42. LaBrava by Elmore Leonard (1983)

43. Borrowed Time by Paul Monette (1988)

44. Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene (1991)

45. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (1988)

46. Sandman by Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)

47. World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow (1985)

48. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (1998)

49. Clockers by Richard Price (1992)

50. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001)

51. The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcom (1990)

52. Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan (1992)

53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (2000)

54. Jimmy Corrigan by Chris Ware (2000)

55. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (2006)

56. The Night Manager by John le Carré (1993)

57. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe (1987)

58. Drop City by TC Boyle (2003)

59. Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat (1995)

60. Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)

61. Money by Martin Amis (1985)

62. Last Train To Memphis by Peter Guralnick (1994)

63. Pastoralia by George Saunders (2000)

64. Underworld by Don DeLillo (1997)

65. The Giver by Lois Lowry (1993)

66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (1997)

67. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)

68. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (2006)

69. Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)

70. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (2004)

71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Ann Fadiman (1997)

72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

73. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (1989)

74. Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (1990)

75. Cathedral by Raymond Carver (1983)

76. A Sight for Sore Eyes by Ruth Rendell (1998)

77. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

78. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)

79. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

80. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney (1984)

81. Backlash by Susan Faludi (1991)

82. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2002)

83. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields (1994)

84. Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)

85. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004)

86. And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts (1987)

87. The Ruins by Scott Smith (2006)

88. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (1995)

89. Close Range by Annie Proulx (1999)

90. Comfort Me With Apples by Ruth Reichl (2001)

91. Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)

92. Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow (1987)

93. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1991)

94. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (2001)

95. Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman (1998)

96. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (2003)

97. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson (1992)

98. The Predators' Ball by Connie Bruck (1988)

99. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman (1995)

100. America (the Book) by Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)