Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Books Poll
Friday June 20, 2008
Entertainment Weekly polled its readers to get this list of the ten best books of the past 25 years:
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
- Maus by Art Spiegelman
- Selected Stories by Alice Munro
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Comments
Does anyone have a list of the top 25 books of last century? Fiction, Nonfiction and Auto/Biography
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle! There’s a pleasant surprise.
No. It fails. Harry Potter at #2… That sickens me.
Megan – I’ve compiled some contemporary lit “must-reads” here:
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/readinglists/tp/contempList10.htm
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/readinglists/tp/contempList20.htm
There’s also this great list:
http://1morechapter.com/projects/1001-list/
which goes well into the past three centuries.
am i really blind?? .. or is there really no lotr on this list… for me it is the best book in the history of the literature… but they are mi views course….
Yikes! (predictably)
Anaum, LotR is more than 25 years old!