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<![CDATA[Best Books of the Decade: 1990's]]>
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<![CDATA[The Poisonwood Bible]]>
1
7571
76
<![CDATA[Memoirs of a Geisha]]>
2
7317
74
<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone]]>
3
6386
65
<![CDATA[Girl with a Pearl Earring]]>
4
4728
48
<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]>
5
4394
45
<![CDATA[Bridget Jones's Diary]]>
6
3787
39
<![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]>
7
2901
30
<![CDATA[The Golden Compass]]>
8
2842
29
<![CDATA[The Virgin Suicides]]>
9
2667
26
<![CDATA[The Giver]]>
10
2639
27
<![CDATA[The Secret History]]>
11
2377
23
<![CDATA[Sophie's World]]>
12
2245
23
<![CDATA[Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies]]>
13
2230
23
<![CDATA[Possession: A Romance]]>
14
2064
20
<![CDATA[Snow Falling on Cedars]]>
15
2063
20
<![CDATA[Blindness]]>
16
1885
18
<![CDATA[The English Patient]]>
17
1554
16
<![CDATA[A Thousand Acres: A Novel]]>
18
1477
14
<![CDATA[The God of Small Things]]>
19
1465
14
<![CDATA[Alias Grace]]>
20
1450
14
<![CDATA[Corelli's Mandolin]]>
21
1356
13
<![CDATA[All the Pretty Horses]]>
22
1266
13
<![CDATA[Infinite Jest: A Novel]]>
23
988
10
<![CDATA[The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle]]>
24
982
9
<![CDATA[Smilla's Sense of Snow]]>
25
966
10
<![CDATA[Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West]]>
26
955
10
<![CDATA[Snow Crash]]>
27
874
9
<![CDATA[The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes]]>
28
872
9
<![CDATA[The Subtle Knife]]>
29
842
9
<![CDATA[A Game of Thrones]]>
30
795
8
<![CDATA[A Fine Balance]]>
31
779
7
<![CDATA[The Power of One]]>
32
763
8
<![CDATA[L.A. Confidential]]>
33
688
7
<![CDATA[The Things They Carried]]>
34
685
7
<![CDATA[Motherless Brooklyn]]>
35
679
7
<![CDATA[A Soldier of the Great War]]>
36
677
7
<![CDATA[The Tortilla Curtain]]>
37
593
5
<![CDATA[Regeneration]]>
38
592
6
<![CDATA[The Shipping News : A Novel]]>
39
584
6
<![CDATA[Interpreter of Maladies]]>
40
581
6
<![CDATA[The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]]>
41
575
6
<![CDATA[American Pastoral]]>
42
493
4
<![CDATA[Neverwhere: A Novel]]>
43
486
5
<![CDATA[Skinny Legs and All]]>
44
485
5
<![CDATA[There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America]]>
45
480
5
<![CDATA[A Widow for One Year]]>
46
477
5
<![CDATA[Insomnia]]>
47
470
5
<![CDATA[The Pianist]]>
48
395
4
<![CDATA[Cryptonomicon]]>
48
395
4
<![CDATA[Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel]]>
50
393
4
<![CDATA[The Crossing]]>
51
390
4
<![CDATA[The Thief of Always: A Fable]]>
51
390
4
<![CDATA[The Reader]]>
53
389
4
<![CDATA[High Fidelity]]>
53
389
4
<![CDATA[Fatherland]]>
55
379
4
<![CDATA[Speak]]>
56
378
4
<![CDATA[Holes]]>
57
367
4
<![CDATA[Moo]]>
58
366
4
<![CDATA[Notes from a Small Island]]>
58
366
4
<![CDATA[Mostly Harmless]]>
60
360
4
<![CDATA[Microserfs]]>
61
296
3
<![CDATA[Veronika Decides to Die: A Novel of Redemption]]>
61
296
3
<![CDATA[Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha]]>
63
295
2
<![CDATA[A Suitable Boy: A Novel]]>
64
294
2
<![CDATA[Trainspotting]]>
65
292
3
<![CDATA[Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance]]>
66
286
3
<![CDATA[The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy Boxed Set: Griffin & Sabine/Sabine's Notebook/The Golden Mean]]>
67
285
3
<![CDATA[Songs in Ordinary Time]]>
67
285
3
<![CDATA[The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer]]>
69
281
3
<![CDATA[White Oleander]]>
70
280
3
<![CDATA[The Gold Bug Variations]]>
71
200
2
<![CDATA[Delores Claiborne/Insomnia/Rose Madder]]>
72
199
2
<![CDATA[Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap]]>
73
198
2
<![CDATA[The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats]]>
73
198
2
<![CDATA[The Savage Detectives]]>
75
197
2
<![CDATA[The Pilot's Wife]]>
75
197
2
<![CDATA[Your Blues Ain't Like Mine: A Novel]]>
77
196
2
<![CDATA[Fight Club: A Novel]]>
77
196
2
<![CDATA[The Iron Dragon's Daughter]]>
79
195
2
<![CDATA[Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith]]>
80
194
2
<![CDATA[Galatea 2.2: A Novel]]>
81
193
2
<![CDATA[Naked]]>
82
192
2
<![CDATA[Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch]]>
82
192
2
<![CDATA[Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China]]>
84
191
2
<![CDATA[Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason]]>
84
191
2
<![CDATA[A Home at the End of the World: A Novel]]>
86
190
1
<![CDATA[We Were the Mulvaneys]]>
86
190
2
<![CDATA[Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader]]>
86
190
2
<![CDATA[Chocolat]]>
89
188
2
<![CDATA[The Rifles]]>
90
187
2
<![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 1999]]>
91
182
2
<![CDATA[Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War]]>
92
181
2
<![CDATA[The Kitchen God's Wife]]>
93
177
2
<![CDATA[What a Carve Up!]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[My Awakening]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[Use of Weapons]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[Waking the Moon]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[King: A Street Story]]>
94
100
1
<![CDATA[The Master of Petersburg]]>
94
100
1