Earlier this year the
New York Times Book Review's editor sent out a request to "a couple of hundred prominent writers, critics, editors and other literary sages," asking them to identif

y "the single best work of American fiction published in the last 25 years."
Click
here to see what they came up with.
Click
here for the list of judges.
None of the books identified by the
Times' judges made the Modern Library's list of the
100 best English-language novels published in the last century.
--Marshal Zeringue