What book would you list as a favorite over the last year? How do you rate the best American fiction in the last 25 years?
The New York Times did a survey and their results make a great list for must reads, in those breaks at work, on a subway or on CDs during your drive. Toni Morrison’s book Beloved won top position… and 
deserved it in my opinion, although there are a few that made it, which I have yet to read.
Read AO Scott’s essay about the NY Times survey and see who got to vote….Do you agree with the winning top book? I was thrilled with this win and Toni Morrison might be able to help us reconsider democracy, equity and what it means to be human in
How many have you read from this alphabetically arranged winners list ...
- Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From
- Don DeLillo, White Noise
- Don DeLillo, Libra
- Don DeLillo, Underworld
- Richard Ford, Independence Day
- Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
- Denis Johnson, Jesus' Son
- Edward P. Jones, The Known World
- Cormac McCarthy, Border Trilogy
- Cormac McCarthy, Blood
Meridian - Toni Morrison, Beloved
- Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
- Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against
- Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
- Philip Roth, Operation Shylock
- Philip Roth, The Counterlife
- Norman Rush, Mating
- John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces
- John Updike, Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels
The list could double as your Christmas list for literary co-workers. I’ll send you my preferences by private email later….
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