1. The Road ,
Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison
(1987)
4. The Liars' Club,
Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral,
Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River,
Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman
(1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories,
Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain,
Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle, Haruki Murakami
(1997)
11. Into Thin Air,
Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness,
José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore
and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water,
Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking
Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale,
Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time
of Cholera, Gabriel García
Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest,
John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's
Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing,
Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao,
Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road,
Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove,
Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club,
Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer,
William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession,
A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked, David Sedaris
(1997)
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett
(2001)
30. Case Histories,
Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They
Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters,
Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical
Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones,
Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty,
Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes,
Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis,
Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America,
Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of
Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
(2000)
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41. The House on
Mango Street,
Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard
(1983)
43. Borrowed Time,
Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for
Sheetrock, Melissa Fay
Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende
(1988)
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman
(1988-1996)
47. World's Fair,
E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood
Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
(1998)
49. Clockers, Richard Price
(1992)
50. The Corrections,
Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money, Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)