What's the best novel in the past 25 years?

[bekah]

That was "The Bookstore" by Penelope Fitzgerald.   It was a good book 
but not one I'd consider best of anything.   Her book,  "The Blue 
Flower"  was also good but maybe only if you have some background on 
the poet Novalis.   If you want to read another one by her I'd 
recommend "At Freddie's"    another slim, quick read but more 
humorous than the others if I remember correctly.

  Bekah

At 8:28 AM -0400 10/8/06, Will Layman wrote:
>Someone hipped me to Penelope Fitzgerald a few years ago, and I read 
>this book about a woman who owned a bookstore in a little town -- 
>something like that.
>
>I guess I'm just a just a idiot American, but I thought is was dull.  
>(And it was very short.)
>
>That said, this is a fun list.  Needless to say, I would have 
>notched MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN a little higher . . .
>
>-- Will
>
>On Oct 8, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Ya Sam wrote:
>
>>A recent poll in the New York Times named Toni Morrison's Beloved 
>>as the greatest work of American fiction in the past 25 years. But 
>>what about over here? On the eve of this year's Booker Prize, we 
>>asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish 
>>or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005. How they defined 'best' 
>>was up to them ...
>>
>>http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1890247,00.html
>>
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