EW's book list

At the family reunion yesterday, I read Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 100 classic books of the past 25 years. A few people asked me to post it, so here goes:

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 - Jose Saramago, 1998
13. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, 1986/1987
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 Garcia Marquez, 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 Diaz, 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 Frazen, 2001

For numbers 51-100, please click on the link to Entertainment Weekly above. (Sorry, my fingers are getting tired.)