CRITICS LOVED THESE, AND WE THINK YOU WILL, TOO. GREAT PICKS FROM 80S, 90S, AND BEYOND Margaret Atwood: The Blind Assassin Jhumpa Lahiri: Unaccustomed Earth J. G. Ballard: Empire of the Sun Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty Roberto Bolano: 2666 Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude Anita Brooker: Family and Friends Cormac McCarthy: The Road A.S. Byatt: Possession Ian McEwan: Atonement Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas Susan Choi: Person of Interest Toni Morrison: Beloved Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore Don Delillo: Underworld Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Ann Patchett: Bel Canto Sebastian Faulk: Birdsong Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses Jonathan Ferris: Then We Came to the End E. Annie Proulx: The Shipping News Richard Ford: The Sportswriter (also, Independence Day) Marilynne Robinson: Housekeeping Jonathan Franzen: The Corrections Philip Roth: The Plot Against America Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain Russo, Richard: Empire Falls Kaye Gibbons: Ellen Foster W.G. Sebald: Austerlitz Glen David Gold: Carter Beats the Devil Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Dan Simmons: The Terror Mark Helprin: A Winter’s Tale Jane Smiley: A Thousand Acres Oscar Hijuelos: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Zadie Smith: White Teeth Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner ` Zadie Smith: On Beauty Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go Donna Tartt: The Secret History Kazuo Ishiguro: Artist of the Floating World Colm Toibin: The Master Denis Johnson: Tree of Smoke Colson Whitehead: John Henry Days Edward P. Jones: The Known World ` David Wroblewski: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle .