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100 New Classics

Type: Preset list created by deldevries

Description: 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

See also Book Listers UNITE! discussion at http://www.librarything.com/topic/39235 for The EW 100 New Classics List.

Based on tag: 100 New Classics

Members: 8 participating members (show all)

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1
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
15,976 members, 338 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (1), SandraArdnas (1), sturlington (1), ahef1963 (1), hipdeep (2), deldevries (50)

Score: 20.87

2
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
78,845 members, 729 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (2), deldevries (2), merrystar (4), ahef1963 (4), LesleyWebb (7)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 12.84

3
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
30,583 members, 871 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (1), kara.shamy (5), ahef1963 (10), sturlington (21), deldevries (31)

Score: 12.49

4
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
22,085 members, 321 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: merrystar (2), SandraArdnas (3), ahef1963 (14), deldevries (18), sturlington (37)

Score: 12.04

5
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
16,970 members, 308 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: SandraArdnas (2), ahef1963 (5), deldevries (5), sturlington (38)

Score: 10.33

6
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
29,703 members, 837 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (3), deldevries (3), ahef1963 (13), sturlington (15)

Score: 10.22

7
The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman
28,211 members, 612 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: merrystar (1), ahef1963 (11), sturlington (14), deldevries (37)

Score: 9.89

8
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
15,163 members, 417 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (2), hipdeep (4), deldevries (15), sturlington (35)

Score: 9.87

9
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
11,135 members, 392 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: sturlington (3), kara.shamy (4), ahef1963 (27), deldevries (27)

Score: 9.38

10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
37,307 members, 1,195 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (3), ahef1963 (9), sturlington (11), deldevries (67)

Score: 8.94

11
Possession: A Romance
by A. S. Byatt
10,981 members, 240 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: merrystar (3), kara.shamy (6), sturlington (26), deldevries (90)

Score: 8.67

12
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
10,458 members, 407 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (7), sturlington (7), deldevries (22), ahef1963 (25)

Score: 8.55

13
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
6,638 members, 59 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (3), hipdeep (6), sturlington (39), deldevries (96)

Score: 8.47

14
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
27,129 members, 1,262 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: deldevries (1), kara.shamy (8), sturlington (29)

Score: 8.1

15
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
16,160 members, 706 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (4), ahef1963 (16), sturlington (42), deldevries (52)

Score: 7.89

16
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
18,071 members, 292 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), sturlington (23), deldevries (25)

Score: 7.62

17
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
43,742 members, 1,150 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (2), ahef1963 (8), kara.shamy (9), deldevries (62)

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Score: 7.48

18
On Writing
by Stephen King
13,749 members, 409 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: deldevries (4), merrystar (6), sturlington (24)

Score: 7.19

19
A Thousand Acres: A Novel
by Jane Smiley
5,170 members, 110 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (10), ahef1963 (18), sturlington (34), deldevries (85)

Score: 7.17

20
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
13,921 members, 384 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (11), ahef1963 (29), sturlington (32), deldevries (64)

Score: 7.02

21
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
18,660 members, 298 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), LesleyWebb (8), kara.shamy (12), deldevries (33)

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Score: 6.87

22
Gilead: A Novel
by Marilynne Robinson
8,693 members, 326 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (17), ahef1963 (21), sturlington (40), deldevries (79)

Score: 6.77

23
Blindness
by José Saramago
10,044 members, 322 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: sturlington (5), deldevries (14), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 6.55

24
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
14,395 members, 158 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (5), sturlington (19), deldevries (24)

Score: 6.4

25
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
6,565 members, 296 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: sturlington (8), ahef1963 (19), deldevries (28)

Score: 6.03

26
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
28,860 members, 1,367 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), sturlington (13), deldevries (60)

Score: 5.69

27
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
10,564 members, 305 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (13), deldevries (29), sturlington (33)

Score: 5.5

28
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
14,674 members, 236 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (17), deldevries (21), sturlington (41)

Score: 5.42

29
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
22,114 members, 440 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (14), sturlington (25), deldevries (45)

Score: 5.4

30
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
9,831 members, 221 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: sturlington (18), ahef1963 (23), deldevries (36)

Score: 5.4

31
Holes
by Louis Sachar
17,900 members, 863 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), sturlington (17), deldevries (78)

Score: 5.35

32
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
12,048 members, 350 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (15), sturlington (28), deldevries (72)

Score: 5.15

33
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
9,424 members, 187 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (22), sturlington (31), deldevries (43)

Score: 5.1

34
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
12,982 members, 169 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: sturlington (16), ahef1963 (28), deldevries (81)

Score: 5.07

35
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
4,924 members, 102 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (21), sturlington (43), deldevries (77)

Score: 4.78

36
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
22,254 members, 569 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: sturlington (2), deldevries (76)

Score: 4.72

37
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,038 members, 37 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: sturlington (4), deldevries (35)

Score: 4.47

38
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
4,770 members, 113 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: deldevries (8), sturlington (22)

Score: 4.23

39
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
11,011 members, 262 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: deldevries (9), kara.shamy (16), ahef1963 (26)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 4.08

40
The Corrections: A Novel
by Jonathan Franzen
14,264 members, 309 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: sturlington (10), deldevries (47)

Score: 3.78

41
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
13,741 members, 571 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: sturlington (9), deldevries (65)

Score: 3.72

42
Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
11,063 members, 159 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: sturlington (12), deldevries (86)

Score: 3.46

43
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
5,552 members, 183 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), deldevries (10)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 3.29

44
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
6,077 members, 181 reviews
4.55 stars (4.55 stars)

Lists: sturlington (20), deldevries (88)

Score: 3.2

45
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
3,444 members, 53 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: sturlington (27), deldevries (84)

Score: 3.08

46
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
2,738 members, 171 reviews
3.36 stars (3.36 stars)

Lists: sturlington (30), deldevries (80)

Score: 3.05

47
A Sight for Sore Eyes
by Ruth Rendell
866 members, 22 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: sturlington (36), deldevries (71)

Score: 3.01

48
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
14,474 members, 295 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), deldevries (13)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2.66

49
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
3,824 members, 44 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: merrystar (5), deldevries (42)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2.25

50
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
2,346 members, 82 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: SandraArdnas (4), deldevries (70)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2.21

51
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
59,262 members, 1,192 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (7), LesleyWebb (9), deldevries (92)

Thumbs down: merrystar, sturlington

Score: 2.06

52
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,381 members, 104 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: sturlington (6), deldevries (54)

Thumbs down: merrystar

Score: 2.03

53
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
18,397 members, 785 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (6), deldevries (73)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.92

54
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
2,361 members, 51 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (18), deldevries (23)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.77

55
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
7,878 members, 229 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), deldevries (30)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.6

56
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
3,860 members, 101 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (19), deldevries (32)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.6

57
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
7,426 members, 295 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), deldevries (34)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.37

58
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
9,190 members, 185 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: kara.shamy (20), deldevries (57)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.35

59
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
3,199 members, 70 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: deldevries (6)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 0.56

60
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
6,357 members, 146 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: deldevries (7)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 0.46

61
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,028 members, 11 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: deldevries (11)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 0.2

62
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
11,280 members, 174 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: deldevries (12)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 0.15

63
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
998 members, 45 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

Lists: deldevries (16)

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Score: 0

64
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
13,963 members, 218 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: deldevries (17)

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Score: < 0

65
Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
2,050 members, 22 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: deldevries (19)

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Score: < 0

66
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
7,987 members, 198 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: deldevries (20)

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Score: < 0

67
Naked
by David Sedaris
10,992 members, 109 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: deldevries (26)

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68
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
7,363 members, 179 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: deldevries (38)

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Score: < 0

69
LaBrava
by Elmore Leonard
606 members, 12 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: deldevries (39)

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Score: < 0

70
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette
596 members, 10 reviews
4.45 stars (4.45 stars)

Lists: deldevries (40)

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Score: < 0

71
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
by Melissa Fay Greene
382 members, 4 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: deldevries (41)

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Score: < 0

72
World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
1,038 members, 21 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: deldevries (44)

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Score: < 0

73
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,069 members, 23 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: deldevries (46)

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74
The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
446 members, 8 reviews
3.86 stars (3.86 stars)

Lists: deldevries (48)

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Score: < 0

75
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,393 members, 18 reviews
3.5 stars (3.5 stars)

Lists: deldevries (49)

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Score: < 0

76
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
2,690 members, 46 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: deldevries (51)

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Score: < 0

77
The Night Manager
by John le Carré
2,381 members, 26 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: deldevries (53)

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78
Drop City
by T. C. Boyle
2,165 members, 47 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: deldevries (55)

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79
Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
937 members, 20 reviews
4.1 stars (4.1 stars)

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80
Money: a suicide note
by Martin Amis
2,614 members, 47 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: deldevries (58)

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81
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
826 members, 10 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: deldevries (59)

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82
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
3,786 members, 61 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: deldevries (61)

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83
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
5,757 members, 306 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: deldevries (63)

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84
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
3,702 members, 104 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: deldevries (66)

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Score: < 0

85
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
15,381 members, 286 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

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86
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by Buzz Bissinger
2,135 members, 60 reviews
4.04 stars (4.04 stars)

Lists: deldevries (69)

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87
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
2,483 members, 36 reviews
3.61 stars (3.61 stars)

Lists: deldevries (74)

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88
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
2,381 members, 19 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: deldevries (75)

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89
Close Range : Wyoming Stories
by Annie Proulx
2,920 members, 64 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: deldevries (82)

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90
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
1,672 members, 31 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: deldevries (83)

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91
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
1,671 members, 17 reviews
4.51 stars (4.51 stars)

Lists: deldevries (87)

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92
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
6,580 members, 65 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

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93
Kaaterskill Falls
by Allegra Goodman
683 members, 18 reviews
3.55 stars (3.55 stars)

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94
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
2,170 members, 56 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

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96
Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
3,767 members, 102 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

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97
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
17,879 members, 281 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: deldevries (97)

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98
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
2,225 members, 52 reviews
4.41 stars (4.41 stars)

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99
Pastoralia
by George Saunders
1,805 members, 37 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

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100
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
1,156 members, 35 reviews
4.29 stars (4.29 stars)

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