{"id":144,"date":"2007-03-01T12:34:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=144"},"modified":"2007-03-01T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T19:34:38","slug":"nyts-best-american-fiction-of-the-past-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2007\/03\/nyts-best-american-fiction-of-the-past-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT’s “Best American Fiction of the past 25 years”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ones I’ve read are in Bold:<\/p>\n

Beloved-Toni Morrison<\/strong>
Underworld-Don DeLillo<\/strong>
Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy<\/strong>
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels-John Updike
– Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest
American Pastoral-Philip Roth
A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole
Housekeeping-Marilynne Robinson<\/b>
Winter’s Tale-Mark Helprin
White Noise-Don DeLillo<\/strong>
The Counterlife-Philip Roth
Libra-Don DeLillo
Where I’m Calling From-Raymond Carver
The Things They Carried-Tim O’Brien
Mating-Norman Rush
Jesus’ Son-Denis Johnson<\/strong>
Operation Shylock-Philip Roth
Independence Day-Richard Ford
Sabbath’s Theater-Philip Roth
Border Trilogy-Cormac McCarthy
— All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
The Human Stain-Philip Roth
The Known World-Edward P. Jones
The Plot Against America-Philip Roth<\/p>\n

It seems I have some work to do on this list.  Though at least I did get the top 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ones I’ve read are in Bold: Beloved-Toni Morrison Underworld-Don DeLillo Blood Meridian-Cormac McCarthy Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels-John Updike – Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest American Pastoral-Philip Roth A Confederacy of Dunces-John Kennedy Toole Housekeeping-Marilynne Robinson Winter’s Tale-Mark Helprin White Noise-Don DeLillo The Counterlife-Philip Roth Libra-Don DeLillo Where I’m … <\/p>\n

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