30 Great Novels of the 1990’s
- 1990 – Amongst Women by John McGahern
- 1990 – The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi
- 1991 – American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- 1991 – The Firm by John Grisham
- 1992 – All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- 1992 – The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
- 1992 – The Secret History by Donna Tartt
- 1993 – Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
- 1993 – The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
- 1993 – The Giver by Lois Lowry
- 1993 – The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- 1993 – Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
- 1993 – The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- 1995 – The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- 1995 – The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr
- 1996 – Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
- 1996 – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
- 1996 – Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- 1997 – American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- 1997 – Blindness by Jose’ Saramago
- 1997 – Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- 1997 – The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- 1997 – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
- 1997 – Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
- 1997 – Underworld by Don DeLillo
- 1998 – Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
- 1998 – The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- 1999 – Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
- 1999 – Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- 1999 – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
* As is the case with any “list,” there is no definitive list of novels or films that is above discussion, disagreement, or alternate viewpoints. This list was formulated from cumulative research and is presented in good faith as a guide to the 30 best novels of the 1990’s.