Favorite Book Published After 1985?

what is your all time favorite book/ or books, published since 1985?

Amongst Women - John McGahern
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Probably Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian

Any Human Heart by William Boyd.

Its hard to pick just one, so I'll post two of my favorites (although I don't know if they're necessarily my absolute favorites).

Fiction: A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)
Non-fiction: Citizen Soldiers - Stephen Ambrose (1998)

Christopher Unborn from Carlos Fuentes, (****1/2)
The Elementary Particles from a Michel Houellebecq the ones i can recall now.

And many good writers were active on 1985+ years.
John Barth, Michel Butor, Rushdie, Eco, Grillet, Grass, Llosa, Saramago ... Surely they have some.

"The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco.

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Originally Posted by amalia1985

"The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco.

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You are 2 years too late. or 5 years if we count the Italian as the date

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Originally Posted by amalia1985

"The Name Of The Rose" by Umberto Eco.

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That was published in 1980.

The first Italian edition came out in 1980. The first English edition in 1983.

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Originally Posted by djy78usa

Fiction: A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving (1989)

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The BC read this one last year if you would like to have a look at the discussion thread:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=24399

Personally, I am not a fan of the book.

My favorite post-1985 books:

- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

- The Hours by Michael Cunningham

- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

- Shipping News by Annie Proulx

- The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Or at least the ones I could think of at the moment.

Interesting; I thought I hadn't read many books written after 1985.