15% New Classic
EW has recently published a list of 100 new classics. Of these, I have read 15. They are bolded below. I guess that makes me 15% new classic. What percentage of new classic are you?
1. The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , J.K. Rowling (2000)
3. Beloved , Toni Morrison (1987)
4. The Liars' Club , Mary Karr (1995)
5. American Pastoral , Philip Roth (1997)
6. Mystic River , Dennis Lehane (2001)
7. Maus , Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
8. Selected Stories , Alice Munro (1996)
9. Cold Mountain , Charles Frazier (1997)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle , Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. Into Thin Air , Jon Krakauer (1997)
12. Blindness , José Saramago (1998)
13. Watchmen , Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
14. Black Water , Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius , Dave Eggers (2000)
16. The Handmaid's Tale , Margaret Atwood (1986)
17. Love in the Time of Cholera , Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
18. Rabbit at Rest , John Updike (1990)
19. On Beauty , Zadie Smith (2005)
20. Bridget Jones's Diary , Helen Fielding (1998)
21. On Writing , Stephen King (2000)
22. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao , Junot Díaz (2007)
23. The Ghost Road , Pat Barker (1996)
24. Lonesome Dove , Larry McMurtry (1985)
25. The Joy Luck Club , Amy Tan (1989)
26. Neuromancer , William Gibson (1984)
27. Possession , A.S. Byatt (1990)
28. Naked , David Sedaris (1997)
29. Bel Canto , Anne Patchett (2001)
30. Case Histories , Kate Atkinson (2004)
31. The Things They Carried , Tim O'Brien (1990)
32. Parting the Waters , Taylor Branch (1988)
33. The Year of Magical Thinking , Joan Didion (2005)
34. The Lovely Bones , Alice Sebold (2002)
35. The Line of Beauty , Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
36. Angela's Ashes , Frank McCourt (1996)
37. Persepolis , Marjane Satrapi (2003)
38. Birds of America , Lorrie Moore (1998)
39. Interpreter of Maladies , Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
40. His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
41 . The House on Mango Street , Sandra Cisneros (1984)
42. LaBrava , Elmore Leonard (1983)
43. Borrowed Time , Paul Monette (1988)
44. Praying for Sheetrock , Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
45. Eva Luna , Isabel Allende (1988)
46. Sandman , Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
47. World's Fair , E.L. Doctorow (1985)
48. The Poisonwood Bible , Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
49. Clockers , Richard Price (1992)
50. The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen (2001)
51. The Journalist and the Murderer , Janet Malcom (1990)
52. Waiting to Exhale , Terry McMillan (1992)
53. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay , Michael Chabon (2000)
54. Jimmy Corrigan , Chris Ware (2000)
55. The Glass Castle , Jeannette Walls (2006)
56. The Night Manager , John le Carré (1993)
57. The Bonfire of the Vanities , Tom Wolfe (1987)
58. Drop City , TC Boyle (2003)
59. Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
60. Nickel & Dimed , Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
61. Money , Martin Amis (1985)
62. Last Train To Memphis , Peter Guralnick (1994)
63. Pastoralia , George Saunders (2000)
64. Underworld , Don DeLillo (1997)
65. The Giver , Lois Lowry (1993)
66. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again , David Foster Wallace (1997)
67. The Kite Runner , Khaled Hosseini (2003)
68. Fun Home , Alison Bechdel (2006)
69. Secret History , Donna Tartt (1992)
70. Cloud Atlas , David Mitchell (2004)
71. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , Ann Fadiman (1997)
72. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , Mark Haddon (2003)
73. A Prayer for Owen Meany , John Irving (1989)
74. Friday Night Lights , H.G. Bissinger (1990)
75. Cathedral , Raymond Carver (1983)
76. A Sight for Sore Eyes , Ruth Rendell (1998)
77. The Remains of the Day , Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
78. Eat, Pray, Love , Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
79. The Tipping Point , Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
80. Bright Lights, Big City , Jay McInerney (1984)
81. Backlash , Susan Faludi (1991)
82. Atonement , Ian McEwan (2002)
83. The Stone Diaries , Carol Shields (1994)
84. Holes , Louis Sachar (1998)
85. Gilead , Marilynne Robinson (2004)
86. And the Band Played On , Randy Shilts (1987)
87. The Ruins , Scott Smith (2006)
88. High Fidelity , Nick Hornby (1995)
89. Close Range , Annie Proulx (1999)
90. Comfort Me With Apples , Ruth Reichl (2001)
91. Random Family , Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
92. Presumed Innocent , Scott Turow (1987)
93. A Thousand Acres , Jane Smiley (1991)
94. Fast Food Nation , Eric Schlosser (2001)
95. Kaaterskill Falls , Allegra Goodman (1998)
96. The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown (2003)
97. Jesus’ Son , Denis Johnson (1992)
98. The Predators' Ball , Connie Bruck (1988)
99. Practical Magic , Alice Hoffman (1995)
100. America (the Book) , Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
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