Via The Reading Experience comes a list of some of the best works of fiction since 1990 hosted at Scott Esposito’s Conversational Reading.

Scott remarks:

this is not a response to The New York Times list. This idea has been circulating in my head since last November, and I first began collaborating with people on it back in March, long before I knew of the existence of the NYT list. I do, however, think that the two lists make for interesting juxtapositions and I encourage comparisons.

The list includes:

JM Coetzee, Arundhati Roy, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth, W.S. Sebald, Jose Saramago, Michael Ondaatje, Richard Power, Colson Whitehea, Norman Rus, Cynthia Ozic, William Gas, Kazuo Ishigur, Zadie Smith, Jeanette Winterson, Angela Carter, Danzy Senna, George Saunders, Jonathan Franzen, Michel Houellebecq, William Gaddis, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Cunningham, Banana Yoshimoto, Jeffrey Eugenides, Richard Russo, A.S.Byatt, David Markson, John Berger, Mary Gaitskill and Haruki Murakami.

Digression: 1000 movies by NYT, the same, at Amazon.

Everyone knows that a good canon debate doesn’t get interesting until you reach the realm of the top 100. But by listing the top 1,000 movies, as the editors of The New York Times have done with this fat, readable collection of reviews, you get to skip all that huffing and puffing about quality and head straight for the fun. –Lyall Bush for Amazon

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