Contemporary American Authors rate the Best Books of the Past 25 years

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Originally Posted by wendybeth

I just thought the NPR list rather sucked- we are not putting out much great lit these past few decades.

Just for clarification purposes, it was reported by NPR but it was a New York Times compilation project.


Although this list does not speak from this advid readers point of view, I found it interesting to see what was chosen by 124 American writers. I wonder if some the literary lights of my generation will appear on a list of this sort. Of course, so many of my own favorites are members of the world population and not necessarily American born.

Also, when thinking about who is missing, I kept coming up with fantastic American poets - Plath, Ginsberg, Bukowski, William Carlos Williams - to name just a very few.