Best American fiction published in the last 25 years
Discover the best American fiction books published in the last 25 years. Explore top-rated novels, acclaimed authors, and must-read literary works that define modern storytelling.
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Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and …
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Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and …
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Rabbit Angstrom
by John Updike
The four novels in the acclaimed Rabbit series—including the Pulitzer Prize winners Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest—brought together in a single volume, from …
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American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
Written with deep understanding, with enormous power and scope, and great storytelling energy, Philip Roth's newest novel focuses on the longing for an ordinary life. …
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Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
A breathtaking novel by the author of "A Soldier of the Great War," this is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human …
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and …
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The Counterlife
by Philip Roth
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A stunning novel about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so far …
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Libra
by Don DeLillo
From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel White Noise comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination …
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Where I'm Calling from
by Raymond Carver
The last collection published during Carver's life, "Where I'm Calling From" contains 37 of his best stories and reflects his development as a writer over …
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The …
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Mating
by Norman Rush
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of …
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Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson
Jesus' Son is a visionary chronicle of dreamers, addicts, and lost souls. These stories tell of spiraling grief and transcendence, of rock bottom and redemption, …
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Operation Shylock
by Philip Roth
In this fiendishly imaginative, dizzyingly paced bestseller, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Someone with that name has …
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Independence Day
by Richard Ford
The Pulitzer-Prize Winning novel for 1996.In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Richard Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most unforgettable characters in …
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Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth
The life of an old man who lives for sex. He is Morris Sabbath, 64, a New York puppeteer who made his name with lewd …
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The Border Trilogy
by Cormac McCarthy
From the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winner and one of America's greatest writers: available together in one volume, the three novels of Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling …
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The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
A college professor with a sexual indiscretion in his past is hounded from his job by academic enemies who label him a racist
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The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth
In this alternate history, Pulitzer Prize winner Roth considers what it would be like for his Newark family--and for a million such families all over …