New York Times Best American Fiction 1981-2006 (authoritative list)

This series contains 20 books.

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   Book 1

   Beloved (1987)

   by Toni Morrison

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   Book 2

   Blood Meridian (1985)

   Or, The Evening Redness in the West

   by Cormac McCarthy

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   Book 2

   American Pastoral (1997)

   by Philip Roth

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   Underworld

   by Don DeLillo

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   Independence Day (1995)

   by Richard Ford

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   A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)

   by John Kennedy Toole

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   The Things They Carried (1990)

   by Tim O'Brien

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   Winter's Tale (1983)

   by Mark Helprin

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   White Noise (1985)

   by Don DeLillo

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    Where I'm Calling From (1988)

    Selected Stories

    by Raymond Carver

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    The Plot Against America (2004)

    by Philip Roth

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    The Known World (2003)

    by Edward P. Jones

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    Housekeeping (1980)

    by Marilynne Robinson

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    Sabbath's Theater (1995)

    by Philip Roth

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    The Human Stain (2000)

    by Philip Roth

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    Mating

    by Norman Rush

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    Libra (1988)

    by Don DeLillo

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    The Counterlife (1986)

    by Philip Roth

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    Jesus' Son (1992)

    by Denis Johnson

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    Operation Shylock (1993)

    A Confession

    by Philip Roth

Collective Works

1. The Border Trilogy
2. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetrology

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