Top Ten Novels 1980-2005, or - My Opinion Solicited
Holtmann asked, and I’ve sweated bullets to deliver up the goods. In the end, two lists weren’t possible, so the U.S. and the Commonwealth have been united. It’s been horrible, agonizing: one discovers that to list one’s favorite novels of the past quarter century is to condemn oneself twice, as both conventional and poorly-read.
Without further ado, then…
Tags: A Confederacy of Dunces, A Fine Balance, Ackroyd, Amis, Atwood, Bainbridge, Ballard, Banks, Barnes, Barth, Barthelme, Beloved, Burgess, Byatt, Carey, Carver, Coe, Coetzee, Connell, Crace, DeLillo, Didion, Doctorow, Eugenides, Fiction, Ford, Fraser, Gaddis, Gray, Heller, Hopeful Monsters, Irving, Ishiguro, Jin, Killing Mr. Watson, Kincaid, Kundera, Kureishi, Lessing, Mailer, Matthiessen, McCarthy, McEwan, McInerny, McMurtry, Midnights Children, Mistry, Morrison, Mosley, Murdoch, Novels, Oates, Okri, Ondaatjie, Proulx, Pynchon, Roth, Rush, Rushdi, Sabbaths Theater, Seth, Sinclair, Smiley, Smith, Styron, Swift, The Child in Time, The Margin, The Master of Petersburg, The Passion, The Remains of the Day, The Sea The Sea, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Theroux, Toole, Underworld, Updike, Walker, Welsh, Winterson, Wolff
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