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Best Books of the 1990s: The Decade's Defining Reads

The 1990s were a golden decade for fiction. These are the best books of the 1990s — novels that launched obsessions, won every major award, and still get recommended thirty years later. From the labyrinthine Infinite Jest to the darkly comic Fight Club, from Jurassic Park to Angela's Ashes, this list covers the reads that made the 1990s one of literature's richest decades.