Myers, Dusty. The Contemporary Novel: 1961 to the Present. Lincoln: Unpublished, 2007.

The field list is meant to be more general than the focus. There was, I think, some consternation that this field was actually a focus, and that I should have chosen "Twentieth Century Fiction."

I say "Bollocks." The 20th century is one-third as interesting as the 21st:

• Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1993.
  
• Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2000.
  
• Bellow, Saul. Herzog. 1964. New York: Penguin, 2003.
  
• Calvino, Italo. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. 1979. New York: Knopf, 1993.
  
• Cisneros, Sandra. Caramelo. New York: Knopf, 2003.
  
• Coetzee, J.M. The Life and Times of Michael K. New York: Penguin, 1985.
  
• Danticat, Edwidge. The Farming of Bones. New York: Penguin, 1999.
  
• DeLillo, Don. White Noise. 1985. New York: Penguin: 1999.
  
• Didion, Joan. Democracy. 1984. New York: Vintage, 1995.
  
• Erdrich, Louise. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse. New York: Perennial, 2002.
  
• Foer, Jonathan Safran. Everything is Illuminated. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
  
• Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Artist of the Floating World. New York: Knopf, 1989.
  
• Jin, Ha. Waiting. New York: Knopf , 2000.
  
• Jones, Edward P. The Known World. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
  
• Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. 1979. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
  
• Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. 1961. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
  
• Márquez, Gabriel García. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 1967. New York: Perennial Classics, 1998.
  
• McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian. 1985. New York: Knopf, 1992.
  
• McEwan, Ian. Atonement. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2001.
  
• Mitchell, David. The Cloud Atlas. New York: Random House, 2004.
  
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved. New York: Plume, 1987.
  
• Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York: Knopf, 1998.
  
• Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire. 1962. New York: Knopf, 1989.
  
• Naipaul, V.S. A Bend in the River. 1979. New York: Knopf, 1989.
  
• Oates, Joyce Carol. Wonderland. 1971. New York: Random House, 2006.
  
• Ondaatje, Michael. Anil's Ghost. New York: Vintage International, 2000.
  
• Pynchon, Thomas. V. 1966. New York: Perennial Library, 1990.
  
• Roth, Philip. American Pastoral. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
  
• Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. 1981. New York: Random House, 2006.
  
• Sebald, W.G. The Emigrants. 1993. New York: New Directions, 1997.
  
• Smith, Zadie. White Teeth. New York: Vintage International, 2000.
  
• Soyinka, Wole. The Interpreters. 1963. New York: Heinemann, 1984.
  
• Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1996.
  
• Greaney, Michael. Contemporary Fiction and the Uses of Theory. New York: Palgrave, 2006.
  
• Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio. Empire. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.
  
• Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1988.
  
• Hume, Kathryn. American Dream, American Nightmare. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000.
  
• Su, John J. Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005.
  
• Eco, Umberto. Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.
  
• Franzen, Jonathan. “Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels.” Harper’s Magazine Apr. 1996: 35-53.
  
• Kundera, Milan. The Art of the Novel. 1986. New York: Perennial Classics, 2003.
  
• Marcus, Ben. “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It.” Harper’s Magazine Oct. 2005: 39-52.
  
• Morrison, Toni. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination. New York: Vintage, 1992.
  
• Smiley, Jane. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel. New York: Knopf, 2005.
  
• Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction." (I don't have the full citation on hand.)
  
• Wolfe, Tom. “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A Literary Manifesto for the New Social Novel.” Harper’s Magazine Nov. 1989: 45-56.