In no particular order:
1. Birds of America – Lorrie Moore
2. This Country of Mothers – Julianna Baggott
3. The Dig – Lynn Emanuel
4. Drown – Junot Diaz
5. My Happy Life – Lydia Millet
6. The Hunters – Claire Messud
7. The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
8. Large Animals in Everyday Life – Wendy Brenner
9. Under the Red Flag – Ha Jin
10. The Land of Green Plums – Herta Muller
11. An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
12. Sweet Talk – Stephanie Vaughn
13. Mary and O’Neil – Justin Cronin
14. In the Wilderness – Kim Barnes
15. The Question of Bruno – Aleksandar Hemon
16. Not Where I Started From – Kate Wheeler
17. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles – Haruki Murakami
18. Who Do You Love – Jean Thompson
19. Pagan Time – Micah Perks
20. The Honey Thief – Elizabeth Graver
21. A Feather on the Breath of God – Sigrid Nunez
22. Sentimental, Brokenhearted Rednecks – Greg Bottoms
23. The Sleepover Artist – Thomas Beller
24. Desperate Characters – Paula Fox
25. John Henry Days – Colson Whitehead
26. Trash – Dorothy Allison
27. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed . . . – Philip Gourevitch
28. Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon
29. A Complicated Situation – Jane Mullen
30. The Point – Charles D’Ambrosio
31. Mariette in Ecstasy – Ron Hansen
32. Like Normal People – Karen Bender
33. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again – David Foster Wallace
34. Emerald City – Jennifer Egan
35. The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
36. Buffalo Soldiers – Robert O’Connor
37. Selected Poems – Stephen Dunn
38. Scar Vegas – Tom Payne
39. Sam the Cat – Matthew Klam
40. Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
41. The Funnies – J. Robert Lennon
42. Vaquita and other stories – Edith Pearlman
43. Suspicious River – Laura Kasischke
44. Rootie Kazootie – Lawrence Naumoff
45. Wolf Whistle – Lewis Nordan
46. Read This and Tell Me What It Says – A. Manette Ansay
47. Fixer Chao – Han Ong
48. Crawling at Night – Nani Power
49. The Gravity of Sunlight – Rosa Shand
50. A Blessing on the Moon – Joseph Skibell
51. Pastoralia – George Saunders
52. Falling Dark – Tim Tharp
53. Halfway Heaven – Melanie Thernstrom
54. Songdogs – Colum McCann
55. Troublemakers – John McNally
56. From the Glittering World – Irvin Morris
57. A Private State – Charlotte Bacon
58. Selected Stories – Alice Munro
59. Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World – Donald Antrim
60. Good Bones and Simple Murders – Margaret Atwood
61. Anonymity – Susan Bergman
62. The Archivist – Martha Cooley
63. Equal Love – Peter Ho Davies
64. The End of Vandalism – Tom Drury
65. City Terrace Field Manual – Seeshu Foster
66. The Undiscovered Country – Samantha Gillison
67. The Safety of Objects – A.M. Homes
68. The Beauty of Men – Andrew Holleran
69. The Pleasing Hour – Lily King
70. The Devil’s Chimney – Anne Landsman
71. Neon Vernacular – Yusef Komunyakaa
72. My Hard Bargain – Walter Kirn
73. In Cuba I was a German Shepherd – Ana Menendez
74. Arrogance – Joanna Scott
75. Thirst – Ken Kalfus
76. Welding with Children – Tim Gautreaux
77. Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson
78. Always Running – Luis J. Rodriguez
79. Dream State – Moira Crone
80. Angel Angel – April Stevens
81. Light in the Crossing – Kent Meyers
82. Because They Wanted To – Mary Gaitskill
83. The Ice at the Bottom of the World – Mark Richard
84. High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
85. The Foreign Student – Susan Choi
86. The Giant’s House – Elizabeth McCracken
87. Out of the Woods – Chris Offutt
88. The Revolution of Little Girls – Blanche McCrary Boyd
89. In the Company of Angels – N.M. Kelby
90. The Blue Guide to Indiana – Michael Martone
91. Hula – Lisa Shea
92. No Telephone to Heaven – Michelle Cliff
93. Esther Stories – Peter Orner
94. Off Keck Road – Mona Simpson
95. Under the Frog – Tibor Fischer
96. The Girls in the Grass – Melanie Rae Thon
97. Small Craft Warnings – Kate Braverman
98. The Hours – Michael Cunningham
99. That Night – Alice McDermott
100. Blue Angel – Francine Prose
101. Demonology – Rick Moody
102. Across the Wire – Luis Urrea
103. Come to Me – Amy Bloom
104. Motherless Brooklyn – Jonathan Lethem
105. The Devil’s Larder – Jim Crace
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