Best Fiction Top 20
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21 September 2009
Check out the Best Fiction of the Millenium (So Far) Top 20 at The Millions this week. Panelists included:
- Sam Anderson is the book critic for New York Magazine.
- Rosecrans Baldwin is the author of the forthcoming You Lost Me There and a founding editor of The Morning News.
- Elif Batuman is the author of the forthcoming The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Mark Binelli is the author of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die and is a contributor to Rolling Stone.
- Elise Blackwell is the author of Hunger and other books
- Patrick Brown is a contributor to The Millions.
- Sonya Chung is the author of Long for This World and is a contributor to The Millions.
- Elizabeth Crane is the author of You Must Be This Happy to Enter and other works of fiction.
- Ben Dolnick is the author of Zoology.
- Ben Ehrenreich is the author of The Suitors.
- Stephen Elliot is the author of The Adderall Diaries and other books and is founding editor ofThe Rumpus.
- Scott Esposito is the founding editor of Conversational Reading and The Quarterly Conversation.
- Joshua Ferris is the author of Then We Came to the End and the forthcoming The Unnamed.
- Rivka Galchen is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances.
- Lauren Groff is the author of Delicate Edible Birds and The Monsters of Templeton.
- Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of A Field Guide to the North American Family and is a contributor to The Millions.
- John Haskell is the author of Out of My Skin and American Purgatorio.
- Jeff Hobbs is the author of The Tourists.
- Michelle Huneven is the author of Blame and other novels.
- Samantha Hunt is the author of The Invention of Everything Else and The Seas.
- Sara Ivry is a senior editor of Tablet.
- Bret Anthony Johston is the author of Corpus Christi: Stories and is director of the Creative Writing Program at Harvard University.
- Porochista Khakpour is the author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects.
- Lydia Kiesling is a contributor to The Millions.
- Benjamin Kunkel is the author of Indecision and is a founding editor of N+1.
- Paul La Farge is the author of Haussmann, or The Distinction.
- Reif Larsen is the author of The Complete Works of T.S. Spivet.
- Dorothea Lasky is the author of Awe and other books.
- Edan Lepucki is a contributor to The Millions.
- Yiyun Li by The Vagrants
- Margot Livesey is the author of The House on Fortune Street and other books.
- Fiona Maazel is the author of Last Last Chance.
- C. Max Magee is the founding editor of The Millions.
- Sarah Manguso is the author of the memoir The Two Kinds of Decay and other books.
- Laura Miller is the author of The Magician’s Book and is the book critic at Salon.
- Meghan O’Rourke is the author of Halflife: Poems and is a founding editor of DoubleX.
- Ed Park is the author of Personal Days and is a founding editor of The Believer.
- Emre Peker is a contributor emeritus to The Millions.
- Arthur Phillips is the author of The Song is You and three other novels.
- Nathaniel Rich is the author of The Mayor’s Tongue and is a senior editor at The Paris Review.
- Marco Roth is a founding editor of N+1.
- Andrew Saikali is a contributor to The Millions.
- Mark Sarvas is the author of Harry, Revised and is the proprietor of The Elegant Variation.
- Matthew Sharpe is the author of Jamestown and other works of fiction.
- Gary Shteyngart is the author of Absurdistan and The Russian Debutante’s Handbook.
- Joan Silber is the author of The Size of the World.
- Martha Southgate is the author of Third Girl From the Left and other books.
- Lorin Stein is a senior editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Felicia Sullivan is the author of The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here and is the founding editor ofSmall Spiral Notebook.
- Jean Thompson is the author of Do Not Deny Me and other books.
- David Ulin is book editor of the Los Angeles Times
- Amanda Eyre Ward is the author of Love Stories in This Town and other books.
- Dan Wickett is executive director and publisher of Dzanc Books.
- John Williams is founding editor of The Second Pass
- Anne K. Yoder is a contributor to The Millions.
- Todd Zuniga is the founding editor of Opium Magazine
