Best Work of American Fiction

What Is the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years? - New York Times

THE WINNER: Beloved - Toni Morrison
THE RUNNERS-UP: Underworld - Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels - John Updike
American Pastoral - Philip Roth

THE FOLLOWING BOOKS ALSO RECEIVED MULTIPLE VOTES:
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 Calling From - Raymond Carver
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien
Mating - Norman Rush
Jesus' Son - Denis Johnson
Operation Shylock - Philip Roth
Independence Day - Richard Ford
Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth
Border Trilogy - Cormac McCarthy
The Human Stain - Philip Roth
The Known World - Edward P. Jones
The Plot Against America - Philip Roth