The EW 1000 New Classics

Entertainment Weekly has a feature called the EW 1000: Celebrating The New Classics. One list is the EW 1000 New Classics: The 100 best reads from 1983 to 2008. Joanna at Lost in a good story is hosting a challenge related to this list — read and review six of the books on the list between August 2008 and January 2009. It sounds cool, but I’m not ready for more challenges at the moment. However, you should check it out!

Turns out I’ve read 19 out of 100, not bad, right? How many have you read? Any surprising additions or omissions to the list?

1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy – 2006
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling – 2000
3. Beloved, Toni Morrison, – 1987
4. The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr – 1995
5. American Pastoral, Philip Roth – 1997
6. Mystic River, Dennis Lehane – 2001
7. Maus, Art Spiegelman – 1986/1991
8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro – 1996
9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier – 1997
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami – 1997
11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer – 1997
12. Blindness, José Saramago – 1998
13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons – 1986-87
14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates – 1992
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers – 2000
16. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood – 1986
17. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez – 1988
18. Rabbit at Rest, John Updike 1990
19. On Beauty, Zadie Smith 2005
20. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding 1998
21. On Writing, Stephen King – 2000
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz – 2007
23. The Ghost Road, Pat Barker – 1996
24. Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry – 1985
25. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan – 1989
26. Neuromancer, William Gibson – 1984
27. Possession, A.S. Byatt – 1990
28. Naked, David Sedaris – 1997
29. Bel Canto, Anne Patchett – 2001
30. Case Histories, Kate Atkinson – 2004
31. The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien – 1990
32. Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch – 1988
33. The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion – 2005
34. The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold – 2002
35. The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst – 2004
36. Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt – 1996
37. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi – 2003
38. Birds of America, Lorrie Moore – 1998
39. Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri – 2000
40. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman – 1995-2000
41. The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros – 1984
42. LaBrava, Elmore Leonard – 1983
43. Borrowed Time, Paul Monette – 1988
44. Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene – 1991
45. Eva Luna, Isabel Allende – 1988
46. Sandman, Neil Gaiman – 1988-1996
47. World’s Fair, E.L. Doctorow – 1985
48. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver – 1998
49. Clockers, Richard Price – 1992
50. The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen – 2001
51. The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom – 1990
52. Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan – 1992
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon – 2000
54. Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware – 2000
55. The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls – 2006
56. The Night Manager, John le Carré – 1993
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe – 1987
58. Drop City, TC Boyle – 2003
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat – 1995
60. Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich – 2001
61. Money, Martin Amis – 1985
62. Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick – 1994
63. Pastoralia, George Saunders – 2000
64. Underworld, Don DeLillo – 1997
65. The Giver, Lois Lowry – 1993
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace – 1997
67. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini – 2003
68. Fun Home, Alison Bechdel – 2006
69. Secret History, Donna Tartt – 1992
70. Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell – 2004
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman – 1997
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon – 2003
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving – 1989
74. Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger – 1990
75. Cathedral, Raymond Carver – 1983
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell – 1998
77. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro – 1989
78. Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert – 2006
79. The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell – 2000
80. Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney – 1984
81. Backlash, Susan Faludi – 1991
82. Atonement, Ian McEwan – 2002
83. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields – 1994
84. Holes, Louis Sachar – 1998
85. Gilead, Marilynne Robinson – 2004
86. And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts – 1987
87. The Ruins, Scott Smith – 2006
88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby – 1995
89. Close Range, Annie Proulx – 1999
90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl – 2001
91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc – 2003
92. Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow – 1987
93. A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley – 1991
94. Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser – 2001
95. Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman – 1998
96. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown – 2003
97. Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson – 1992
98. The Predators’ Ball, Connie Bruck – 1988
99. Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman – 1995
100. America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show – 2004

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