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

[Alex]

Commentary on why Beloved is beloved (by someone who who somewhat disagrees).

I didn't care for it but am mostly just indifferent to it. Since I haven't liked and Don DeLillo or Philip Roth I've read it is obvious that the tastemakers putting this list together have wildly different tastes than I. But then I mostly stopped reading non-genre fiction a decade ago (and rarely read genre fiction these days).