100 New Classics

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The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008. Based on an article in Entertainment Weekly (2008) "The New Classics:" The 100 Best Books of the Last 25 Years. Source: http://www.ew.com/article/2007/06/18/new-classics-books
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100 New Classics
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
18,463 members
409 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
51,622 members
1,290 reviews
4.2
7 Members
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
40,734 members
1,114 reviews
4.1
7 Members
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4
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,026 members
399 reviews
3.9
7 Members
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5
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
98,189 members
873 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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Possession
by A. S. Byatt
12,657 members
285 reviews
4
6 Members
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
43,512 members
1,307 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,109 members
405 reviews
4
5 Members
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Watchmen
by Alan Moore
18,831 members
481 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
35,101 members
734 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
19,815 members
788 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,459 members
334 reviews
4
5 Members
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
34,977 members
933 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
19,133 members
528 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,014 members
136 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
25,799 members
495 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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On Writing
by Stephen King
17,838 members
501 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
13,658 members
308 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
7,275 members
61 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
33,316 members
1,386 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
38,400 members
1,556 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
12,882 members
448 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
4,955 members
70 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
12,869 members
474 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
68,828 members
1,291 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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Neuromancer
by William Gibson
22,582 members
364 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
15,786 members
471 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,280 members
196 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
8,255 members
246 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,560 members
361 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
5,681 members
137 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,267 members
340 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,303 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
16,679 members
256 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
2,975 members
97 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Naked
by David Sedaris
12,166 members
119 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,144 members
284 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Blindness
by José Saramago
12,632 members
379 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,238 members
73 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
2,780 members
57 reviews
4
3 Members
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Holes
by Louis Sachar
22,429 members
941 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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42
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
11,593 members
275 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
7,792 members
361 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
11,821 members
260 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,668 members
121 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
14,724 members
197 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,395 members
372 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
7,876 members
176 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
2,971 members
46 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
12,324 members
169 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
21,607 members
854 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,766 members
131 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
4,491 members
114 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
7,814 members
340 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
3,456 members
192 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
2,454 members
30 reviews
4
2 Members
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57
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
2,818 members
63 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
4,678 members
73 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
8,154 members
316 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
17,127 members
665 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
5,484 members
163 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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62
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
25,507 members
610 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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63
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
8,128 members
241 reviews
½ 4.5
2 Members
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
21,232 members
322 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
3,893 members
78 reviews
3.8
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66
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,301 members
12 reviews
4.1
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67
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
13,400 members
197 reviews
3.8
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68
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,194 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
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69
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
9,174 members
220 reviews
½ 3.6
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70
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
13,822 members
380 reviews
4.2
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71
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,388 members
48 reviews
4
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72
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
10,179 members
227 reviews
½ 3.6
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73
LaBrava
by Elmore Leonard
756 members
16 reviews
½ 3.6
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74
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette
745 members
13 reviews
½ 4.5
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75
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
by Melissa Fay Greene
460 members
6 reviews
3.9
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76
World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
1,265 members
32 reviews
3.8
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77
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,275 members
29 reviews
4
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78
The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
638 members
12 reviews
3.8
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79
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,648 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
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80
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
3,147 members
55 reviews
4.1
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81
The Night Manager
by John le Carré
3,282 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
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82
Drop City
by T. C. Boyle
2,393 members
54 reviews
½ 3.7
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83
Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
1,156 members
22 reviews
4.1
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84
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
10,669 members
207 reviews
½ 3.7
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85
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,203 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
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86
Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
1,082 members
11 reviews
4.2
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87
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
4,671 members
124 reviews
4.2
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88
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
17,864 members
325 reviews
4.2
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89
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by Buzz Bissinger
2,746 members
70 reviews
4
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90
A Sight for Sore Eyes
by Ruth Rendell
1,027 members
27 reviews
½ 3.7
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91
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
2,731 members
22 reviews
4
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92
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,384 members
71 reviews
3.9
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93
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
1,897 members
36 reviews
3.9
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94
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
by Taylor Branch
2,142 members
21 reviews
½ 4.5
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95
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
7,777 members
82 reviews
3.9
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96
Kaaterskill Falls
by Allegra Goodman
779 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
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97
Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
2,753 members
79 reviews
4.1
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98
The Predators' Ball: The Junk Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them
by Connie Bruck
442 members
5 reviews
3.8
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99
Pastoralia
by George Saunders
2,304 members
54 reviews
4
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100
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
1,336 members
36 reviews
½ 4.3
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