63. Anne Enright "The Gathering"

62. Christian Hawkey "Citizen Of"

61. Jesse Ball "Samedi the Deafness"

60. Tom Perrotta "The Abstinence Teacher"

59. Ann Patchett "Run"

58. Michael Chabon "Wonder Boys"

57. Junot Diaz "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

56. Tracy K. Smith "Duende"

55. Courtney Queeney "Filibuster to Delay a Kiss"

54. Rick Moody "The Ice Storm"

53. Ian McEwan "On Chesil Beach"

52. Jess Walter "The Zero"

51. Philip Roth "Exit Ghost"

50. George Saunders "The Braindead Megaphone"

George Saunders on David Letterman

49. Joshua Ferris "Then We Came to the End"

48. Noelle Kocot "Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems"

47. Chelsey Minnis "Bad Bad"

46. Nick Flynn "Some Ether"

45. Ariana Reines "The Cow"

44. Eleni Sikelianos "The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls"

43. Vendela Vida "And Now You Can Go"

42. Prageeta Sharma "The Opening Question"

41. Rick Moody "Right Livelihoods"

40. Ben Lerner "Angle of Yaw"

39. Daniel Clowes "Ice Haven"

38. Darcy O'Brien "A Way of Life, Like Any Other"

37. Natasha Trethewey "Native Guard"

36. John Ashbery "A Worldly Country"

35. Donald Margulies "Dinner With Friends"

34. Adam Rapp "Red Light Winter"

33. Eleanor Lerman "Out Post-Soviet History Unfolds"

32. Lydia Davis "Varieties of Disturbance"

31. Michael Chabon "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"

30. Haruki Murakami "After Dark"

29. Miranda July "No One Belongs Here More Than You"

28. Ian McEwan "Enduring Love"

27. F. Scott Fitzgerald "The Great Gatsby"

26. Claudia Emerson "Late Wife

25. Anna Moschovakis "I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone"

24. Tom McCarthy "Remainder"

23. Dara Wier "Remnants of Hannah"

22. Kirk Varnedoe "Pictures of Nothing"

21. Terrance Hayes "Wind in a Box"

20. Jane Smiley "Ten Days in the Hills"

Sontag:

"'Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once ... and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.'"

19. Lydia Davis "Almost No Memory"

"You Are The Weakest Link!" (Break It Down is still desert-island-top-five, however...)

18. Gillian Conoley "Profane Halo"

17. Alice Munro "The View from Castle Rock"

16. Jonathan Lethem "You Don't Love Me Yet"

15. Alison Bechdel "Fun Home"

Alison Bechdel's "Dykes To Watch Out For"

14. Vendela Vida "Let The Northern Lights Erase Your Name"