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"

70. Joshua Clover "Madonna anno domini"

69. Louise Gluck "Averno"

68. Ron Padgett "You Never Know"

67. Suzan-Lori Parks "Topdog/Underdog"

66. Sheila Heti "Ticknor"

65. Marisha Pessl "Special Topics in Calamity Physics"

64. Jennifer Moxley "Often Capital"

63. Joshua Clover "The Totality for Kids"

62. Curtis Sittenfeld "The Man of My Dreams"

61. Ander Monson "Other Electricities"

60. Tim O'Brien "The Things They Carried"

59. William Golding "Lord of the Flies"

58. Jena Osman "An Essay in Asterisks"

56. Alice Munro "Runaway"

57. Anselm Berrigan "Some Notes On My Programming"

55. T.S. Eliot "Four Quartets"

54. Martin McDonagh "The Pillowman"

52. Saul Bellow "Dangling Man"

53. Christine Schutt "A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer"

51. Bret Easton Ellis "Glamorama"

50. Tony Hoagland "Donkey Gospel"