'Beloved' Tops Peers' List of Top Novels
Writer Toni Morrison, photographed in 2005. Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Writer Toni Morrison, photographed in 2005.
Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty ImagesToni Morrison's 1987 work Beloved is the best American novel of the past quarter-century. That's according to a vote of writers and critics who were invited to weigh in with their choices by The New York Times Book Review.
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The 124 literary lights who responded to the Times invitation gave multiple mentions to five Philip Roth novels -- especially American Pastoral. Cormac McCarthy has four books on the list: Blood Meridian plus his Border Trilogy. John Updike also has four: each of the novels in his Rabbit Angstrom series, which began with 1960's Rabbit, Run, but stretches into the 1990s.
Times Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus discusses the list... and the process... with Debbie Elliott.
The 'New York Times' List
The New York Times asks authors to weigh in on the Best Work of American Fiction of the Last 25 Years.
Books Featured In This Story
Rabbit Angstrom
Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, & Rabbit at Rest
