Best novels of the decade: 1990's

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Disgrace
1.  Disgrace by J M Coetzee
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  "(1999) Brutal post-apartheid fable that charts one man's descent from professor to dog-disposer. Coetzee whittles down his protagonist to complete baseness with incredible finesse and control."
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The Crossing (Border Trilogy) (paperback)
2.  The Crossing (Border Trilogy) (paperback) by Cormac McCarthy
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  "(1994) Part 2 of the Border trilogy is a slow burner; more plaintive and disconsolate than its predecessor. The set-pieces are stunning, McCarthy writes animals better than anyone since London."
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Infinite Jest
3.  Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
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  "(1996) Intimidating and baffling, the post-modernists' answer to Finnegan's Wake. DFW's legacy is already guaranteed with this, it's just a shame he wasn't around longer to back it up."
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Underworld
4.  Underworld by Don DeLillo
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  "(1997) Nowhere near as daunting as you might think. The first 80 pages or so are the finest introduction to a novel written in this decade or any other."
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All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy
5.  All the Pretty Horses: Volume One of The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
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  "(1992) A gorgeous, meandering read. John Grady Cole is the doomed lover in what is McCarthy's most accessible novel.The prose is absolutely irresistible."
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American Pastoral
6.  American Pastoral by Philip Roth
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  "(1997) A deceptively long, demanding read, that ultimately relies upon the reader's willingness to persevere and let Roth do all the work."
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Mason & Dixon
7.  Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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  "(1997) 97 was a great year in a poor decade. M&D is crazily inventive, disorientating, and huge; but at its heart is a taught and lucid story."
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The Savage Detectives
8.  The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
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  "(1998) Bolano out-Kerouacs Kerouac. It is not a novel in the beat tradition, but is a gritty, real, and tragic novel. Prose to be read in the dirt of a highway."
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Mao II
9.  Mao II by Don Delillo
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  "(1991) Delillo often has the ability infuse language and perception into one entity. Full of sentences that dumbfound with their acuteness and accuracy."
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Outerbridge Reach
10.  Outerbridge Reach by Robert Stone
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  "(1998) Haunting, almost apocalyptic tale of a copywriter who enters an around-the-world boat race. As defiantly human as Dog Soldiers is inhuman."
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Secret History Edition: Reprint
11.  Secret History Edition: Reprint by Donna Tartt
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  "(1992) Wouldn't be on here if the denouement wasn't so darnn satisfactory. The Da-Vinci Code for the "well-read.""
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Age of Iron
12.  Age of Iron by J M Coetzee
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  "(1990) Although mystical, Coetzee confronts the racial sensibilities of his birth nation with more clarity and feeling than he has done before or since."
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Sabbath's Theater
13.  Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
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  "(1995) Micky Sabbath is Portnoy, but 25 years older and on acid. Roth takes delight in destroying him bit by bit."
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Alias Grace
14.  Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
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  "(1996) Atwood writes Grace with expected refinement; but it is her ability to depict 19th century prison life and judicial matters that most impress."
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American Psycho
15.  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "(1991) Although polarising and gratuitous, Ellis' detail on self-style, image, and fashion, are as apt and pertinent in the 90's as they are n the 80's."
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Time's Arrow
16.  Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
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  "Honourable mentons: Time's Arrow, A Thousand Acres, Hocus Pocus, Being Dead, Blindness, Independence Day, Trainspotting, Timbuktu, Ghostwritten, The Things They Carried."
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