The Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years

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Americanah : roman (2013) af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
En halv gul sol (2006) af Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Brick Lane (2003) af Monica Ali
White Girls (2013) af Hilton Als
The Mooring of Starting Out (1997) af John Ashbery
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories (2013) af Laird Barron
The Freddie Stories: With the Great Marlys! and Sister Maybonne (1999) af Lynda Barry
My Perfect Life (1992) af Lynda Barry
A Big Enough Lie: A Novel (2015) af Eric Bennett
To the Wedding (1995) af John Berger
2666 (2004) af Roberto Bolaño
De vilde detektiver (1998) af Roberto Bolaño
Bag det evigt smukke (2012) af Katherine Boo
Intoxicated by my illness (1992) af Anatole Broyard
Parable of the Talents (1998) af Octavia E. Butler
The Book of Frank (2009) af CA Conrad
Den sande historie om Kelly-banden (2000) af Peter Carey
Decreation (2005) af Anne Carson
Selvbiografi i rødt, en versroman (1998) af Anne Carson
Det jiddische politiforbund : roman (2007) af Michael Chabon
Between the World and Me (2015) af Ta-Nehisi Coates
Vanære (1999) af J. M. Coetzee
Beneath the Roses (2005) af Gregory Crewdson
Aegypt (1987) af John Crowley
Make Your Home Among Strangers: A Novel (2015) af Jennine Capó Crucet
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2012) af Emily M. Danforth
Brother, I'm Dying (2007) af Edwidge Danticat
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis (2009) af Lydia Davis
Drengenes by (1996) af Junot Díaz
Oscar Wao & hans korte og forunderlige liv (2007) af Junot Díaz
Underverden : roman (1997) af Don DeLillo
Blue Nights (2011) af Joan Didion
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006) af Joan Didion
proxy (2013) af r erica doyle
Wittgenstein's Poker : The Story of a Ten-minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001) af David Edmonds
Tæskeholdet banker på (2010) af Jennifer Egan
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001) af Barbara Ehrenreich
Til lindring af utålelige drifter (1999) af Nathan Englander
The Round House (2012) af Louise Erdrich
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (2010) af Danielle Evans
The Neapolitan Novels (1888) af Elena Ferrante
Head Off & Split: Poems (2011) af Nikky Finney
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (1996) af David Hackett Fischer
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2012) af Ben Fountain
Old Filth (2004) af Jane Gardam
The Activist (2003) af Renee Gladman
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda (1998) af Philip Gourevitch
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011) af David Graeber
Falling Out of Time (2011) af David Grossman
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013) af Stefano Harney
I skønhedens tjeneste : roman (2004) af Alan Hollinghurst
Koncerten (1995) af Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go (2005) af Kazuo Ishiguro
Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future (2014) af Dale Jamieson
The Known World (2003) af Edward P. Jones
War (2010) af Sebastian Junger
Ibenholt : afrikanske rejser (1998) af Ryszard Kapuściński
Counternarratives (2015) af John Keene
Chokdoktrinen (2007) af Naomi Klein
Min kamp : roman (2009) af Karl Ove Knausgård
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) af Elizabeth Kolbert
I Love Dick (1997) af Chris Kraus
The Flamethrowers (2013) af Rachel Kushner
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays {original} (2013) af Kiese Laymon
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (2003) af Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The Boat (2008) af Nam Le
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines (2006) af Janna Levin
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015) af Robin Coste Lewis
Stranger Things Happen: Stories (2001) af Kelly Link
Forberedelse til næste liv : roman (2014) af Atticus Lish
Lovely Green Eyes (2000) af Arnošt Lustig
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays (2013) af Norman Mailer
Wolf Hall : roman (2009) af Hilary Mantel
Our Word is Our Weapon (2001) af Subcomandante Marcos
Matterhorn (2010) af Karl Marlantes
Vejen : roman (2006) af Cormac McCarthy
Remainder (2005) af Tom McCarthy
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) af Bill McKibben
The Moon Before Morning (2014) af W. S. Merwin
How the Dead Dream (2007) af Lydia Millet
We Others: New and Selected Stories (2011) af Steven Millhauser
En hårfin balance (1995) af Rohinton Mistry
Jacob de Zoets tusind efterår (2010) af David Mitchell
Skyatlas (2004) af David Mitchell
Birds of America: Stories (1998) af Lorrie Moore
The Collected Stories (2008) af Lorrie Moore
Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future (2010) af Ian Morris
Paradis (1997) af Toni Morrison
Fjendskab, venskab, ægteskab : noveller (1986) af Alice Munro
Selected Stories (1985) af Alice Munro
Trækopfuglens krønike (1995) af Haruki Murakami
Inferno: A Poet's Novel (2007) af Eileen Myles
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems (2015) af Eileen Myles
Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull ShortLit) (2005) af Maggie Nelson
Stag's Leap: Poems (2012) af Sharon Olds
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (2005) af George Packer
Fight club (1996) af Chuck Palahniuk
Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (2013) af Geoffrey Parker
Kapitalen i det 21. århundrede (2013) af Thomas Piketty
Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008) af Paul B. Preciado
Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) af Claudia Rankine
Gilead (2004) af Marilynne Robinson
The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015) af Marilynne Robinson
En menneskelig plet (2000) af Philip Roth
Power Politics (2001) af Arundhati Roy
De små tings gud : roman (1997) af Arundhati Roy
Persepolis (2000) af Marjane Satrapi
Pastoralia (2000) af George Saunders
Tenth of December: Stories (2013) af George Saunders
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People (2003) af Jonathan Schell
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013) af Eric Schlosser
The Rings of Saturn (1995) af W. G. Sebald
The Conference of the Birds (2011) af Peter Sís
NW (2012) af Zadie Smith
Solitude of Self (1979) af Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Complete Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, Mother's Milk, and At Last (2012) af Edward St. Aubyn
Native Guard: Poems (2006) af Natasha Trethewey
Infinite Jest (1996) af David Foster Wallace
Building Stories (2012) af Chris Ware
The Intuitionist (1999) af Colson Whitehead
Against Identity (1996) af Leon Wieseltier
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) af Isabel Wilkerson
One Big Self (2007) af C. D. Wright
Steal Away: Selected and New Poems (2002) af C. D. Wright
Al-Qaida - vejen til 11. september (2006) af Lawrence Wright
A Little Life (2015) af Hanya Yanagihara

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