51. Sarah Ruhl "The Clean House"

50. Lorraine Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun"

5 Books (of poetry) for Kate Wolf

1. Barbara Guest "Fair Realism"
2. Rae Armantrout "Next Life"
3. George Oppen "Collected Poems"
4. Myung Mi Kim "Dura"
5. Fanny Howe "Selected Poems"

49. Jean Donnelly "Anthem"

48. Zoe Heller "The Believers"

Via Bookslut (of all places [no disrespect]): a link to a great new(ish) site called The Second Pass (as opposed to, you know, an attack on Philip Roth). On the main page (of The Second Pass, not Bookslut) right now--a list of ten books that ought to be removed from the canon.

47. D.A. Powell "Chronic"