The recent passing of Cormac McCarthy reminded me of a New York Times article from 2006 about the best fiction books of the previous 25 years. That got me thinking: what would that list look like if it were created today? And what is the best book of the last 25 years? Expand for more information.

Links
The NY Times Article from 2006: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/21/bo...

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Time Stamps ⏰
Books Not Included: 04:35
The 25 Best Books: 06:58
Near Misses: 30:27
The Top 5: 31:38
The Best Book of the Last 25 Years: 33:46

Titles Mentioned (Listed Alphabetically By Author)
Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman
The Rain Heron, Robbie Arnott
Whose Names Are Unknown, Sanora Babb
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich
Matrix, Lauren Groff
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, Honorée Fannone Jeffers
War Trash, Ha Jin
Train Dreams, Denis Johnson
Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Good Lord Bird, James McBride
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
A Place For Us Fatima Farheen Mirza
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Annie Proulx
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Empire Falls, Richard Russo
All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward
The Yield, Tara June Winch

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