| 1 | Cormac McCarthy | Blood Meridian | 
|
| 2 | Peter Carey | Illywhacker | 
|
| 3 | William Gaddis | Carpenter's Gothic | 
|
| 4 | Charles Portis | Masters of Atlantis | 
|
| 5 | Richard Powers | Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance | 
|
| 6 | Don DeLillo | White Noise | 
|
| 7 | Iain Banks | Walking on Glass | 
|
| 8 | James Wilcox | North Gladiola | 
|
| 9 | Carolyn Chute | The Beans of Egypt, Maine | 
|
| 10 | Kurt Vonnegut | Galapagos | 
|
| 11 | Russell Banks | Continental Drift | 
|