1. Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing

2. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

3. Zadie Smith, White Teeth

4. Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty

5. Orhan Pamuk, Snow

6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale

7. Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

8. Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions

9. Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks: A Right to Be Hostile

10. Chris Ware, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth

11. Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains

12. Ian McEwan, Atonement

13. Robert Christgau, Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s

14. Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

15. Michel Houellebecq, Platform

16. Sarah Waters, Fingersmith

17. Armand Marie Leroi, Mutants

18. Philip Roth, The Human Stain

19. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

20. Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

21. Jeff Chang, Can't Stop Won't Stop

22. Bob Dylan, Chronicles Volume 1

23. Carol Phillips, A Distant Shore

24. Monica Ali, Brick Lane

25. Ian McEwan, Saturday

26. Kate Atkinson, Case Histories

27. WG Sebald, Austerlitz

28. Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club

29. Toni Morrison, Love

30. Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days

31. David Mitchell, number9dream

32. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

33. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

34. John Ashbery, Chinese Whispers

35. Carol Shields, Unless

36. Arthur Phillips, Prague

37. Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteeth Century

38. Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

39. Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

40. Brian K. Vaughan et al, Y: The Last Man: Unmanned

41. Mikael Niemi, Popular Music from Vittula

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

43. Christopher Middleton, Tankard Cat

44. Denis Johnson, The Name of the World

45. Tim Winton, Dirt Music

46. William Langewiesche, American Ground

47. Colm Tóibín, The Master

48. Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence

49. Alice Munro, Runaway

50. Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man