120. Heidi Julavits "The Uses of Enchantment"

119. Joshua Beckman "Shake"

118. Ryan Boudinot "The Littlest Hitler"

117. Paul Muldoon "Horse Latitudes"

116. Rachel Sherman "The First Hurt"

115. Stephen Elliott "My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up"

114. Richard Ford "The Lay of the Land"

113. Mark Strand "Man and Camel"

112. Sarah Manguso "Siste Viator"

111. Matthea Harvey "Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form"

110. Nathaniel Mackey "Splay Anthem"

109. Karen Russell "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

108. Haruki Murakami "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman"

107. Paula Vogel "The Mammary Plays"

106. A. Van Jordan "M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A"

105. Cormac McCarthy "The Road"

104. Jonathan Franzen "The Discomfort Zone"

103. Claire Messud "The Emperor's Children"

102. Nilo Cruz "Anna in the Tropics"

101. Dennis Lehane "Coronado"

100. Kiran Desai "The Inheritance of Loss"

99. Ken Kalfus "A Disorder Peculiar to the Country"

98. Alice Munro "Lives of Girls and Women"

97. Doug Wright "I Am My Own Wife"

96. Ian McEwan "The Comfort of Strangers"

95. Craig Thompson "Blankets"

94. Gary Shteyngart "Absurdistan"

93. John le Carre "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold"

92. Dana Spiotta "Eat the Document"

91. Allegra Goodman "Intuition"

90. Salvador Plascencia "The People of Paper"

89. Robert Creeley "On Earth"

88. Patricia Highsmith "The Talented Mr. Ripley"

87. Charles D'Ambrosio "The Dead Fish Museum"

86. Ismail Kadare "The Successor"

85. Nick Laird "To a Fault"

84. James Salter "Last Night"

83. Dashiell Hammett "Red Harvest"

82. Kathryn Davis "The Thin Place"

81. Scott Smith "The Ruins"

80. Franz Wright "God's Silence"

79. Denis Johnson "The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly"

78. Don DeLillo "Mao II"

77. Tobias Wolff "This Boy's Life"

76. Yukio Mishima "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea"

75. Edward P. Jones "All Aunt Hagar's Children"

74. John Patrick Shanley "Doubt"

73. T.C. Boyle "Talk Talk"

72. Charles Burns "Black Hole"

71. Jennifer Egan "The Keep"