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
1
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
by Michael Chabon
18,862 members
415 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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2
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
53,015 members
1,300 reviews
4.2
7 Members
dara85, deldevries, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ahef1963, LesleyWebb, ManWithAnAgenda
3
The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
42,653 members
1,149 reviews
4.1
7 Members
deldevries, Bretzky1, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy, SandraArdnas, ManWithAnAgenda
4
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
23,005 members
409 reviews
3.9
7 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, SandraArdnas, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J. K. Rowling
102,995 members
887 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
merrystar, deldevries, ahef1963, kara.shamy, NinieB, LesleyWebb,ManWithAnAgenda
6
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
13,015 members
289 reviews
4
6 Members
merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, NinieB, ManWithAnAgenda
7
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
44,509 members
1,334 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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8
Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
27,923 members
413 reviews
4
5 Members
merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, SandraArdnas
9
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
19,239 members
494 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
36,373 members
744 reviews
4.1
5 Members
merrystar, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
11
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
20,553 members
798 reviews
4.2
5 Members
dara85, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, LesleyWebb
12
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,956 members
337 reviews
4
5 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, LesleyWebb
13
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
36,053 members
942 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, LesleyWebb
14
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,528 members
559 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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15
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,190 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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16
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
26,395 members
502 reviews
4.2
4 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
17
On Writing
by Stephen King
18,685 members
518 reviews
4.2
4 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
18
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
14,135 members
317 reviews
4.2
4 Members
dara85, deldevries, ahef1963, kara.shamy
19
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by Jon Stewart
7,419 members
61 reviews
4.1
4 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
20
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
34,601 members
1,407 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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21
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
40,430 members
1,590 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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22
Bel Canto
by Ann Patchett
13,293 members
461 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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23
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
5,085 members
73 reviews
3.8
3 Members
merrystar, deldevries, KarlaC
24
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
13,150 members
489 reviews
3.8
4 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy
25
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
70,502 members
1,311 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
dara85, deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, LesleyWebb, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar ,SandraArdnas
26
Neuromancer
by William Gibson
23,146 members
380 reviews
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, gypsysmom
27
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
16,465 members
479 reviews
4.2
4 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
28
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,660 members
199 reviews
3.9
3 Members
deldevries, LesleyWebb, ManWithAnAgenda
29
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
8,792 members
257 reviews
½ 4.5
3 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
30
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,864 members
364 reviews
3.9
4 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963, kara.shamy
31
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
5,913 members
138 reviews
4.1
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, NinieB
32
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,659 members
342 reviews
3.8
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda
33
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
2,373 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda
34
Bridget Jones's Diary
by Helen Fielding
16,944 members
265 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
deldevries, ahef1963, NinieB
35
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,090 members
96 reviews
4.2
3 Members
deldevries, SandraArdnas, ManWithAnAgenda
36
Naked
by David Sedaris
12,354 members
121 reviews
4
3 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
37
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
10,331 members
292 reviews
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, deldevries, ahef1963
38
Blindness
by José Saramago
13,104 members
391 reviews
4.1
3 Members
deldevries, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
39
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,331 members
76 reviews
3.8
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, NinieB
40
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
2,847 members
57 reviews
4
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
41
Holes
by Louis Sachar
23,398 members
953 reviews
4.1
3 Members
deldevries, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
42
The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
11,881 members
283 reviews
4.2
3 Members
deldevries, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
43
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
8,205 members
368 reviews
4.2
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ManWithAnAgenda
44
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri
12,130 members
268 reviews
4.1
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, ahef1963
45
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,799 members
121 reviews
3.8
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, kara.shamy
46
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
14,918 members
202 reviews
3.9
3 Members
deldevries, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
47
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,954 members
370 reviews
4.2
2 Members
deldevries, ahef1963
48
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,103 members
181 reviews
3.9
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
49
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
2,992 members
47 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
50
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
12,513 members
171 reviews
3.9
2 Members
deldevries, NinieB
51
Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
22,196 members
861 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
deldevries, LesleyWebb
52
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
8,988 members
132 reviews
3.8
3 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom, NinieB,merrystar
53
The Line of Beauty
by Alan Hollinghurst
4,597 members
113 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
deldevries, kara.shamy
54
Case Histories
by Kate Atkinson
7,942 members
350 reviews
3.8
2 Members
deldevries, ahef1963
55
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
3,663 members
195 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
56
Rabbit at Rest
by John Updike
2,508 members
29 reviews
4
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
57
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by Randy Shilts
2,934 members
64 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, deldevries
58
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
by David Foster Wallace
4,841 members
73 reviews
4.1
2 Members
deldevries, kara.shamy
59
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
by Marjane Satrapi
8,560 members
322 reviews
4.2
2 Members
deldevries, ahef1963
60
Cloud Atlas: A Novel
by David Mitchell
17,785 members
684 reviews
4.1
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
61
Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
5,807 members
175 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
deldevries, ManWithAnAgenda
62
Atonement
by Ian McEwan
26,599 members
629 reviews
3.9
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
63
Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
8,375 members
239 reviews
½ 4.6
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
64
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
21,861 members
332 reviews
3.8
2 Members
deldevries, gypsysmom
65
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
4,027 members
81 reviews
3.8
Member
deldevries
66
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
1,358 members
12 reviews
4.2
Member
deldevries
67
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
13,714 members
201 reviews
3.8
Member
deldevries
68
Black Water
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,237 members
51 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
deldevries
69
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
9,376 members
225 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
70
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
14,447 members
393 reviews
4.2
Member
deldevries
71
Birds of America: Stories
by Lorrie Moore
2,462 members
49 reviews
4
Member
deldevries
72
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros
10,757 members
231 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
73
LaBrava
by Elmore Leonard
779 members
17 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
74
Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
by Paul Monette
767 members
13 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
deldevries
75
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
by Melissa Fay Greene
475 members
6 reviews
3.9
Member
deldevries
76
World's Fair
by E. L. Doctorow
1,289 members
32 reviews
3.8
Member
deldevries
77
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,291 members
31 reviews
4
Member
deldevries
78
The Journalist and the Murderer
by Janet Malcolm
679 members
14 reviews
3.8
Member
deldevries
79
Waiting to Exhale
by Terry McMillan
1,698 members
22 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
deldevries
80
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by Chris Ware
3,232 members
59 reviews
4.1
Member
deldevries
81
The Night Manager
by John le Carré
3,428 members
44 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
82
Drop City
by T.C. Boyle
2,426 members
55 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
deldevries
83
Krik? Krak!
by Edwidge Danticat
1,204 members
25 reviews
4.1
Member
deldevries
84
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
10,934 members
212 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
deldevries
85
Money: A Suicide Note
by Martin Amis
3,309 members
56 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
86
Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by Peter Guralnick
1,119 members
12 reviews
4.2
Member
deldevries
87
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
4,848 members
127 reviews
4.2
Member
deldevries
88
A Prayer for Owen Meany
by John Irving
18,123 members
333 reviews
4.2
Member
deldevries
89
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
by Buzz Bissinger
2,874 members
72 reviews
4
Member
deldevries
90
A Sight for Sore Eyes
by Ruth Rendell
1,053 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
deldevries
91
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by Susan Faludi
2,798 members
21 reviews
4
Member
deldevries
92
Close Range
by Annie Proulx
3,459 members
70 reviews
3.9
Member
deldevries
93
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
1,946 members
37 reviews
3.9
Member
deldevries
94
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63
by Taylor Branch
2,224 members
21 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
deldevries
95
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
8,003 members
85 reviews
3.9
Member
deldevries
96
Kaaterskill Falls
by Allegra Goodman
797 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
deldevries
97
Jesus' Son: Stories
by Denis Johnson
2,832 members
79 reviews
4.1
Member
deldevries
98
The Predators' Ball: The Junk Bond Raiders and the Man Who Staked Them
by Connie Bruck
446 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
deldevries
99
Pastoralia
by George Saunders
2,374 members
56 reviews
4
Member
deldevries
100
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
1,363 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
deldevries