Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008]
/// Specially prepared for Entertainment Weekly's 999-1000 issue (June 27, 2008) ///
*** 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)
-------- Missing: --------
* Tim O'Brien (31) * Taylor Branch (32) * Alan Hollinghurst (35) * Lorrie Moore (38) * Jhumpa Lahiri (39) * Paul Monette (43) * Melissa Fay Greene (44) * Richard Price (49) * Chris Ware (54) * Jeannette Walls (55) * Edwidge Danticat (59) * Peter Guralnick (62) * George Saunders (63) * David Mitchell (70) * Ann Fadiman (71) * Mark Haddon (72) * H.G. Bissinger (74) * Scott Smith (87) * Ruth Reichl (90) * Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (91) * Eric Schlosser (94) * Allegra Goodman (95) * Denis Johnson (97) * Connie Bruck (98)
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