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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of the Year

The New York Times® Best Fiction Books of the Year are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2009
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
74 reviews (2009) (528p) (NYTimes)
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Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want by Maile Meloy
23 reviews (2009) (240p) (NYTimes)
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A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
164 reviews (2009) (336p) (PF) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert
57 reviews (2009) (256p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel by Jeannette Walls
231 reviews (2009) (288p) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2008
2666 by Roberto Bolano
122 reviews (2008) (912p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
221 reviews (2008) (352p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (ALA)
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Dangerous Laughter by Steven Millhauser
18 reviews (2008) (256p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
141 reviews (2008) (176p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
162 reviews (2008) (272p) (PF) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2007
The Savage Detectives: A Novel by Roberto Bolano
96 reviews (2007) (592p) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
284 reviews (2007) (400p) (NBA) (NYTimes) (TIME)
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel by Denis Johnson
118 reviews (2007) (624p) (PP) (NBA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
78 reviews (2007) (288p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (LATimes) (ALA)
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Man Gone Down by Michael Thomas
37 reviews (2007) (432p) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
84 reviews (2006) (496p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel by Amy Hempel
31 reviews (2006) (432p) (PF) (NYTimes)
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The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
261 reviews (2006) (288p) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
308 reviews (2006) (528p) (NYTimes)
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Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
114 reviews (2006) (352p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2005
Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
69 reviews (2005) (240p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon) (ALA)
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Saturday by Ian McEwan
321 reviews (2005) (304p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (ALA)
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Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
211 reviews (2005) (448p) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (ALA)
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Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
511 reviews (2005) (448p) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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On Beauty by Zadie Smith
211 reviews (2005) (464p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2004
War Trash by Ha Jin
51 reviews (2004) (368p) (PP) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Runaway: Stories by Alice Munro
37 reviews (2004) (352p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (ALA)
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Snow by Orhan Pamuk
154 reviews (2004) (448p) (NYTimes)
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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
358 reviews (2004) (256p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA)
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The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
415 reviews (2004) (400p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA)
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The Master by Colm Tóibín
77 reviews (2004) (352p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2003
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
156 reviews (2003) (432p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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Drop City by T. C. Boyle
116 reviews (2003) (512p) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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The Known World by Edward P. Jones
318 reviews (2003) (432p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
110 reviews (2003) (528p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2002
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
919 reviews (2002) (544p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon)
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Roscoe by William Kennedy
20 reviews (2002) (608p) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Atonement by Ian McEwan
822 reviews (2002) (368p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2001
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
111 reviews (2001) (384p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (TIME) (ALA)
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
1017 reviews (2001) (592p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA)
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Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories by Alice Munro
35 reviews (2001) (336p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (TIME)
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Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald
82 reviews (2001) (304p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead
38 reviews (2001) (400p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 2000
Being Dead by Jim Crace
115 reviews (2000) (208p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA)
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
268 reviews (2000) (215p) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon)
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The Human Stain by Philip Roth
203 reviews (2000) (384p) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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White Teeth by Zadie Smith
366 reviews (2000) (464p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA)
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Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
43 reviews (2000) (224p) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1999
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
356 reviews (1999) (220p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
132 reviews (1999) (382p) (NYTimes) (Amazon) (ALA)
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Headlong by Michael Frayn
105 reviews (1999) (344p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
156 reviews (1999) (288p) (PP) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (Amazon)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1998
Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
92 reviews (1998) (768p) (PP) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Preston Falls by David Gates
33 reviews (1998) (352p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
1472 reviews (1998) (672p) (PP) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
88 reviews (1998) (304p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munro
27 reviews (1998) (352p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo
332 reviews (1997) (832p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
82 reviews (1997) (240p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
24 reviews (1997) (256p) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
138 reviews (1997) (773p) (NYTimes)
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American Pastoral by Philip Roth
237 reviews (1997) (432p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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Toward the End of Time by John Updike
55 reviews (1997) (352p) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1996
The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant
2 reviews (1996) (887p) (NYTimes)
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Selected Stories by Alice Munro
13 reviews (1996) (688p) (NYTimes)
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The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie
82 reviews (1995) (448p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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After Rain: Stories by William Tevor
17 reviews (1996) (320p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1995
THE INFORMATION by Martin Amis
63 reviews (1995) (384p) (NYTimes)
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THE ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE by Umberto Eco
98 reviews (1995) (528p) (NYTimes)
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Independence Day by Richard Ford
128 reviews (1995) (464p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes)
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THE STORIES OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV by Dmitri Nabokov
18 reviews (1995) (688p) (NYTimes)
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Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
58 reviews (1995) (464p) (PP) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1994
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis
37 reviews (1994) (512p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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Open Secrets: Stories by Alice Munro
10 reviews (1994) (294p) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (ALA)
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A WAY IN THE WORLD by V. S. Naipaul
10 reviews (1994) (400p) (NYTimes)
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In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
198 reviews (1994) (320p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1993
MAZURKA FOR TWO DEAD MEN by Camilo Jose Cela
7 reviews (1993) (312p) (NYTimes)
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ACROSS THE BRIDGE: Stories by Mavis Gallant
  reviews (1993) (198p) (NYTimes)
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THE ISLAND: Three Tales by Gustaw Herling
3 reviews (1993) (160p) (NYTimes)
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JESUS' SON: Stories by Denis Johnson
98 reviews (1993) (176p) (NYTimes)
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Judge on Trial by Ivan Klima
3 reviews (1993) (556p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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The Collected Stories by William Trevor
17 reviews (1994) (386p) (NYTimes) (LATimes) (ALA)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1992
REGENERATION by Pat Barker
90 reviews (1992) (256p) (NYTimes)
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THE LOST UPLAND by W. S. Merwin
1 reviews (1992) (320p) (NYTimes)
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Jazz by Toni Morrison
70 reviews (1992) (256p) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
306 reviews (1992) (320p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (ALA)
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Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
18 reviews (1992) (409p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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New York Times® Best Fiction Books of 1991
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
11 reviews (1991) (0p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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COMPLETE COLLECTED STORIES by V. S. Pritchett
1 reviews (1991) (p) (NYTimes)
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Mating by Norman Rush
81 reviews (1991) (496p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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MAUS: A Survivor's Tale II: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
52 reviews (1991) (144p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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TWO LIVES by William Trevor
3 reviews (1991) (p) (NYTimes)
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LONDON FIELDS by Martin Amis
84 reviews (1990) (480p) (NYTimes)
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Possession by A. S. Byatt
224 reviews (1990) (576p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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MY SON'S STORY by Nadine Gordimer
11 reviews (1990) (288p) (NYTimes)
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FRIEND OF MY YOUTH by Alice Munro
8 reviews (1990) (288p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
759 reviews (1990) (272p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA by Roberta Reeder
10 reviews (1990) (948p) (NYTimes)
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Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
44 reviews (1990) (0p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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OMEROS by Derek Walcott
14 reviews (1990) (325p) (NYTimes)
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A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 10 1/2 CHAPTERS by Julian Barnes
58 reviews (1989) (320p) (NYTimes)
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IF THE RIVER WAS WHISKEY by T. C. Boyle
8 reviews (1989) (240p) (NYTimes)
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Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
32 reviews (1989) (323p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (NYTimes)
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FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM by Umberto Eco
403 reviews (1989) (640p) (NYTimes)
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
188 reviews (1989) (256p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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THE SHAWL by Cynthia Ozick
19 reviews (1989) (96p) (NYTimes)
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THE SATANIC VERSES by Salman Rushdie
223 reviews (1989) (576p) (NYTimes)
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STORIES IN AN ALMOST CLASSICAL MODE by Harold Brodkey
9 reviews (1988) (608p) (NYTimes)
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
58 reviews (1988) (544p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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Libra by Don DeLillo
75 reviews (1988) (464p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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The Tenants of Time by Thomas Flanagan
6 reviews (1988) (0p) (PF) (NYTimes)
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA by Gabriel García Márquez
478 reviews (1988) (368p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Dictionary of the Khazars: A Lexicon novel in 100,000 words by Milorad Pavic
34 reviews (1988) (338p) (NYTimes)
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ARABESQUES by Anton Shammas
5 reviews (1988) (264p) (NYTimes)
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STARING AT THE SUN by Julian Barnes
7 reviews (1987) (208p) (NYTimes)
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MORE DIE OF HEARTBREAK by Saul Bellow
4 reviews (1987) (352p) (NYTimes)
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World's End by T. C. Boyle
29 reviews (1987) (456p) (PF) (NYTimes)
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
575 reviews (1987) (288p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes) (Novel100)
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The Counterlife by Philip Roth
20 reviews (1987) (336p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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AN ARROW IN THE WALL: Selected Poetry and Prose by Andrei Voznesensky
  reviews (1987) (p) (NYTimes)
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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
154 reviews (1987) (704p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
539 reviews (1986) (320p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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SAINTS AND STRANGERS by Angela Carter
3 reviews (1986) (126p) (NYTimes)
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OUT OF INDIA: Selected Stories by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
2 reviews (1986) (288p) (NYTimes)
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A PERFECT SPY by John le Carré
41 reviews (1986) (608p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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THE PROGRESS OF LOVE by Alice Munro
5 reviews (1986) (320p) (NYTimes)
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Whites by Norman Rush
5 reviews (1986) (160p) (PP) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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Roger's Version by John Updike
9 reviews (1986) (352p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes
29 reviews (1984) (192p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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MR. PALOMAR by Italo Calvino
13 reviews (1985) (144p) (NYTimes)
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Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
68 reviews (1984) (384p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor
5 reviews (1985) (358p) (NBCCA) (PF) (NYTimes)
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HIM WITH HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH AND OTHER STORIES by Saul Bellow
3 reviews (1984) (224p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
45 reviews (1983) (184p) (Booker) (NYTimes)
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LIVES OF THE POETS: Six Stories and a Novella by E. L. Doctorow
1 reviews (1984) (160p) (NYTimes)
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING by Milan Kundera
258 reviews (1984) (320p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD by Mario Vargas Llosa
32 reviews (1984) (576p) (NYTimes)
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Machine Dreams by Jayne Anne Phillips
4 reviews (1984) (331p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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Cathedral by Raymond Carver
36 reviews (1983) (240p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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During the Reign of the Queen of Persia by Joan Chase
4 reviews (1983) (275p) (NBCCA) (NYTimes)
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THE NAME OF THE ROSE by Umberto Eco
283 reviews (1983) (552p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Ironweed by William Kennedy
56 reviews (1983) (227p) (PP) (NBCCA) (PF) (Modern100) (NYTimes)
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CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD by Gabriel García Márquez
122 reviews (1983) (128p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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THE MOONS OF JUPITER by Alice Munro
2 reviews (1983) (256p) (NYTimes)
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The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth
9 reviews (1983) (304p) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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THE BURNING HOUSE by Ann Beattie
3 reviews (1982) (272p) (NYTimes)
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WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by J. M. Coetzee
78 reviews (1982) (160p) (NYTimes)
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AUNT JULIA AND THE SCRIPTWRITER by Mario Vargas Llosa
29 reviews (1982) (384p) (NYTimes)
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler
71 reviews (1982) (336p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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BECH IS BACK by John Updike
3 reviews (1982) (208p) (NYTimes)
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The Chaneysville Incident by David Bradley
15 reviews (1981) (448p) (PF) (NYTimes)
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WORLD WITHOUT END by Francine du Plessix Gray
  reviews (1981) (p) (NYTimes)
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Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
136 reviews (1981) (224p) (PP) (PF) (NYTimes)
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ZUCKERMAN UNBOUND by Philip Roth
3 reviews (1981) (700p) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
179 reviews (1981) (552p) (Booker) (Modern100) (NYTimes)
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A Flag for Sunrise by Robert Stone
13 reviews (1981) (448p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (PF) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas
35 reviews (1981) (288p) (Booker) (NYTimes) (LATimes)
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Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
27 reviews (1981) (432p) (PP) (NBCCA) (NBA) (NYTimes)
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