| 1 | William T. Vollmann | The Ice Shirt | 
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| 2 | Louis De Bernieres | The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts | 
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| 3 | Jim Dodge | Stone Junction | 
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| 4 | Peter Matthiessen | Killing Mister Watson | 
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| 5 | Robert Olmstead | A Trail of Heart's Blood Wherever We Go | 
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| 6 | T Coraghessan Boyle | East Is East | 
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| 7 | Ian McEwan | The Innocent | 
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| 8 | Thomas Pynchon | Vineland | 
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| 9 | Paul Auster | The Music of Chance | 
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