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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: 5 participating members (show all)

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1
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
15,701 members, 332 reviews
4.22 stars (4.22 stars)

Lists: sturlington (1), ahef1963 (1), hipdeep (2), deldevries (50)

Score: 12.87

2
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
14,880 members, 403 reviews
4.32 stars (4.32 stars)

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

Score: 11.59

3
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
30,175 members, 863 reviews
3.71 stars (3.71 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (1), sturlington (3), ahef1963 (10), deldevries (31)

Score: 10.98

4
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
36,717 members, 1,180 reviews
3.89 stars (3.89 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (3), sturlington (4), ahef1963 (9), deldevries (67)

Score: 9.58

5
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
17,704 members, 278 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (1), sturlington (5), deldevries (25)

Score: 8.46

6
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
16,522 members, 294 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (5), deldevries (5), sturlington (6)

Score: 7.91

7
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
28,618 members, 797 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: deldevries (3), sturlington (8), ahef1963 (13)

Score: 7.52

8
Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
43,081 members, 1,143 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (2), ahef1963 (8), deldevries (62)

Score: 7.17

9
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
14,043 members, 158 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (5), sturlington (7), deldevries (24)

Score: 6.94

10
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
6,569 members, 59 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

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

Score: 6.87

11
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
18,289 members, 295 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (5), LesleyWebb (8), deldevries (33)

Score: 6.72

12
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
77,263 members, 712 reviews
4.36 stars (4.36 stars)

Lists: deldevries (2), ahef1963 (4), LesleyWebb (7)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 6.65

13
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
15,743 members, 688 reviews
4.15 stars (4.15 stars)

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

Score: 6.32

14
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
26,521 members, 1,243 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: deldevries (1), sturlington (9)

Score: 6.31

15
Blindness
by José Saramago
9,796 members, 310 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: sturlington (10), deldevries (14), ahef1963 (24)

Score: 6.12

16
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
14,475 members, 234 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: sturlington (11), ahef1963 (17), deldevries (21)

Score: 6.04

17
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
by Philip Pullman
27,551 members, 604 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (11), sturlington (12), deldevries (37)

Score: 5.97

18
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
10,181 members, 405 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: sturlington (13), deldevries (22), ahef1963 (25)

Score: 5.74

19
Case Histories: A Novel
by Kate Atkinson
6,400 members, 292 reviews
3.79 stars (3.79 stars)

Lists: sturlington (14), ahef1963 (19), deldevries (28)

Score: 5.72

20
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
27,913 members, 1,330 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (12), sturlington (15), deldevries (60)

Score: 5.62

21
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
10,939 members, 384 reviews
3.95 stars (3.95 stars)

Lists: sturlington (16), ahef1963 (27), deldevries (27)

Score: 5.51

22
Interpreter of Maladies
by Jhumpa Lahiri
9,618 members, 215 reviews
4.08 stars (4.08 stars)

Lists: sturlington (17), ahef1963 (23), deldevries (36)

Score: 5.43

23
The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
9,247 members, 181 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: sturlington (18), ahef1963 (22), deldevries (43)

Score: 5.35

24
Holes
by Louis Sachar
17,578 members, 848 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (15), sturlington (19), deldevries (78)

Score: 5.29

25
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
by Art Spiegelman
5,398 members, 178 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: hipdeep (3), deldevries (10)

Score: 5.29

26
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
5,076 members, 105 reviews
3.72 stars (3.72 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (18), sturlington (20), deldevries (85)

Score: 5.15

27
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
13,568 members, 374 reviews
4.07 stars (4.07 stars)

Lists: sturlington (21), ahef1963 (29), deldevries (64)

Score: 5.01

28
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
12,809 members, 170 reviews
3.92 stars (3.92 stars)

Lists: sturlington (22), ahef1963 (28), deldevries (81)

Score: 4.92

29
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
14,180 members, 295 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (6), deldevries (13)

Score: 4.66

30
On Writing
by Stephen King
13,304 members, 389 reviews
4.21 stars (4.21 stars)

Lists: deldevries (4), sturlington (24)

Score: 4.64

31
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
4,649 members, 109 reviews
4.06 stars (4.06 stars)

Lists: deldevries (8), sturlington (23)

Score: 4.21

32
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
10,758 members, 257 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: deldevries (9), ahef1963 (26)

Score: 4.08

33
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
58,298 members, 1,176 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

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

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 4.06

34
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
18,055 members, 780 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: LesleyWebb (6), deldevries (73)

Score: 3.92

35
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
7,698 members, 228 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (20), deldevries (30)

Score: 3.6

36
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
10,266 members, 300 reviews
4.19 stars (4.19 stars)

Lists: sturlington (27), deldevries (29)

Score: 3.48

37
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,015 members, 33 reviews
4 stars (4 stars)

Lists: sturlington (28), deldevries (35)

Score: 3.38

38
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
7,404 members, 294 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (30), deldevries (34)

Score: 3.37

39
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
21,745 members, 435 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: sturlington (29), deldevries (45)

Score: 3.27

40
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
14,003 members, 301 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: sturlington (30), deldevries (47)

Score: 3.24

41
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
7,262 members, 101 reviews
3.82 stars (3.82 stars)

Lists: sturlington (31), deldevries (54)

Score: 3.17

42
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
5,888 members, 173 reviews
4.56 stars (4.56 stars)

Lists: sturlington (25), deldevries (88)

Score: 3.1

43
Cloud Atlas
by David Mitchell
13,399 members, 558 reviews
4.12 stars (4.12 stars)

Lists: sturlington (32), deldevries (65)

Score: 3.09

44
Possession
by A. S. Byatt
10,799 members, 236 reviews
4.03 stars (4.03 stars)

Lists: sturlington (26), deldevries (90)

Score: 3.07

45
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
11,612 members, 335 reviews
4.2 stars (4.2 stars)

Lists: sturlington (33), deldevries (72)

Score: 3.04

46
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
21,873 members, 562 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: sturlington (34), deldevries (76)

Score: 3.01

47
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
2,696 members, 161 reviews
3.35 stars (3.35 stars)

Lists: sturlington (35), deldevries (80)

Score: 2.98

48
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
3,340 members, 52 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: sturlington (36), deldevries (84)

Score: 2.95

49
Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser
10,936 members, 158 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: sturlington (37), deldevries (86)

Score: 2.94

50
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
3,114 members, 69 reviews
3.75 stars (3.75 stars)

Lists: deldevries (6)

Score: 2.56

51
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
6,192 members, 137 reviews
3.93 stars (3.93 stars)

Lists: deldevries (7)

Score: 2.46

52
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,006 members, 11 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: deldevries (11)

Score: 2.2

53
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
11,082 members, 170 reviews
3.83 stars (3.83 stars)

Lists: deldevries (12)

Score: 2.15

54
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
21,633 members, 309 reviews
3.96 stars (3.96 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (14), deldevries (18)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 2.01

55
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
982 members, 45 reviews
3.54 stars (3.54 stars)

Lists: deldevries (16)

Score: 2

56
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
13,797 members, 213 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: deldevries (17)

Score: 1.97

57
Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
2,005 members, 22 reviews
3.98 stars (3.98 stars)

Lists: deldevries (19)

Score: 1.92

58
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
7,889 members, 192 reviews
3.64 stars (3.64 stars)

Lists: deldevries (20)

Score: 1.89

59
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
2,326 members, 50 reviews
3.99 stars (3.99 stars)

Lists: deldevries (23)

Score: 1.83

60
Naked
by David Sedaris
10,861 members, 105 reviews
4.01 stars (4.01 stars)

Lists: deldevries (26)

Score: 1.77

61
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
3,790 members, 99 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: deldevries (32)

Score: 1.68

62
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
7,105 members, 170 reviews
3.63 stars (3.63 stars)

Lists: deldevries (38)

Score: 1.61

63
LaBrava
by Elmore Leonard
588 members, 12 reviews
3.53 stars (3.53 stars)

Lists: deldevries (39)

Score: 1.6

64
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette
588 members, 10 reviews
4.44 stars (4.44 stars)

Lists: deldevries (40)

Score: 1.59

65
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
by Melissa Fay Greene
367 members, 4 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: deldevries (41)

Score: 1.58

66
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
3,741 members, 43 reviews
3.78 stars (3.78 stars)

Lists: deldevries (42)

Score: 1.57

67
World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
1,020 members, 21 reviews
3.84 stars (3.84 stars)

Lists: deldevries (44)

Score: 1.55

68
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,046 members, 23 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: deldevries (46)

Score: 1.54

69
The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
429 members, 7 reviews
3.87 stars (3.87 stars)

Lists: deldevries (48)

Score: 1.52

70
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,368 members, 17 reviews
3.51 stars (3.51 stars)

Lists: deldevries (49)

Score: 1.51

71
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
2,650 members, 46 reviews
4.14 stars (4.14 stars)

Lists: deldevries (51)

Score: 1.5

72
The Night Manager
by John Le Carré
2,297 members, 25 reviews
3.62 stars (3.62 stars)

Lists: deldevries (53)

Score: 1.48

73
Drop City
by T. C. Boyle
2,151 members, 45 reviews
3.73 stars (3.73 stars)

Lists: deldevries (55)

Score: 1.47

74
Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
917 members, 20 reviews
4.11 stars (4.11 stars)

Lists: deldevries (56)

Score: 1.46

75
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
9,057 members, 182 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: deldevries (57)

Score: 1.46

76
Money
by Martin Amis
2,577 members, 43 reviews
3.65 stars (3.65 stars)

Lists: deldevries (58)

Score: 1.45

77
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
803 members, 10 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: deldevries (59)

Score: 1.44

78
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
3,678 members, 61 reviews
4.16 stars (4.16 stars)

Lists: deldevries (61)

Score: 1.43

79
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
5,550 members, 300 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: deldevries (63)

Score: 1.42

80
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
3,583 members, 100 reviews
4.23 stars (4.23 stars)

Lists: deldevries (66)

Score: 1.4

81
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
15,115 members, 281 reviews
4.26 stars (4.26 stars)

Lists: deldevries (68)

Score: 1.39

82
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by Buzz Bissinger
1,982 members, 57 reviews
4.05 stars (4.05 stars)

Lists: deldevries (69)

Score: 1.39

83
Cathedral
by Raymond Carver
2,274 members, 77 reviews
4.18 stars (4.18 stars)

Lists: deldevries (70)

Score: 1.38

84
A Sight for Sore Eyes
by Ruth Rendell
847 members, 22 reviews
3.66 stars (3.66 stars)

Lists: deldevries (71)

Score: 1.38

85
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
2,423 members, 34 reviews
3.6 stars (3.6 stars)

Lists: deldevries (74)

Score: 1.36

86
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
2,330 members, 18 reviews
3.94 stars (3.94 stars)

Lists: deldevries (75)

Score: 1.36

87
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
4,837 members, 100 reviews
3.74 stars (3.74 stars)

Lists: deldevries (77)

Score: 1.35

88
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
2,873 members, 61 reviews
3.88 stars (3.88 stars)

Lists: deldevries (82)

Score: 1.33

89
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
1,662 members, 32 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: deldevries (83)

Score: 1.33

90
Parting the Waters : America in the King Years 1954-63
by Taylor Branch
1,612 members, 16 reviews
4.52 stars (4.52 stars)

Lists: deldevries (87)

Score: 1.31

91
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
6,446 members, 63 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: deldevries (89)

Score: 1.3

92
Kaaterskill Falls
by Allegra Goodman
676 members, 18 reviews
3.56 stars (3.56 stars)

Lists: deldevries (91)

Score: 1.3

93
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
2,080 members, 55 reviews
4.09 stars (4.09 stars)

Lists: deldevries (93)

Score: 1.29

95
Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
3,604 members, 101 reviews
3.76 stars (3.76 stars)

Lists: deldevries (95)

Score: 1.28

96
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
17,553 members, 278 reviews
3.85 stars (3.85 stars)

Lists: deldevries (97)

Score: 1.28

97
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
2,165 members, 53 reviews
4.4 stars (4.4 stars)

Lists: deldevries (98)

Score: 1.27

98
Pastoralia
by George Saunders
1,772 members, 32 reviews
4.02 stars (4.02 stars)

Lists: deldevries (99)

Score: 1.27

99
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
1,156 members, 35 reviews
4.27 stars (4.27 stars)

Lists: deldevries (100)

Score: 1.27

100
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
8,391 members, 316 reviews
3.9 stars (3.9 stars)

Lists: ahef1963 (21), deldevries (79)

Thumbs down: sturlington

Score: 1.21

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