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The Best Novels of the 1990's
as voted by the customers of Powells.com
Thanks to the thousands of you who answered our call to vote for the best novel
of the decade. The race was closer than we could have imagined office
pundits couldn't confidently predict the winner until just a few hours before
the polling stations closed. The top vote-getter managed only 38 more votes
than the runner-up!
Rounding out the Top Ten
4.
Cold Mountain by
Charles Frazier
5.
Bastard Out of Carolina by
Dorothy Allison
6.
The God of Small Things by
Arundhati Roy
7.
Memoirs of a Geisha by
Arthur Golden
8.
The Alienist by
Caleb Carr
9.
A Lesson Before Dying by
Ernest Gaines
10.
All the Pretty Horses by
Cormac McCarthy
And fifteen more candidates worthy of mention . . .
11-15
Einstein's Dreams by
Alan Lightman
Smilla's Sense of Snow by
Peter Hoeg
Underworld by
Don DeLillo
Trainspotting by
Irvine Welsh
A Thousand Acres by
Jane Smiley
16-20
Stones from the River by
Ursula Hegi
Leviathan by
Paul Auster
Corelli's Mandolin by
Louis De Bernieres
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by
Haruki Murakami
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by
Roddy Doyle
21-25
Who Will Run the Frog Hospital by
Lorrie Moore
Mallory's Oracle by
Carol O'Connell
The Giant's House by
Elizabeth McCracken
Snow Falling on Cedars by
David Guterson
Enduring Love by
Ian McEwan
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