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Joseph:
I figured it wasn't the complete list, what with the "handful of others" bit.  I was just trying to see what else might've been up there.  I really love hearing what other people enjoy to read.

TheFuriousWombat:
Oh me too! I guess "handful" is a fairly vague term. Of course, if these are my picks for "the best" than it can't be too long since any such list aught to be fairly short. Anyway, my list would look something like this (although, come to think of it, this is more a list of "great" living American writers, not the "greatest" living American writers to me):
Philip Roth
Don Delillo
Thomas Pynchon
Cormac McCarthy
John Updike
Joan Didion
Joyce Carroll Oats
Toni Morrison
Mary Caponegro
Emily Barton
Francine Prose
Michael Chabon
Jonathan Franzen
Tom Wolfe
Bradford Morrow

I'm sure the list would go on if I thought about it more. These are just writers of fiction, no poets of essayists included. Um....yeah. Your comment made me think of more women authors that I like and there are certainly a bunch (more than I thought there would be, to be honest). Anyway, this is my list of "great" living American authors. If I had to pick a top 5, however, it would still be something like:
Roth
Updike
Pynchon
McCarthy
Delillo
Fairly standard, I know, but these guys are revered for a reason.

TimA:
I'm behind the curve, but I just finished The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. Good fun, and a great read. I'm delaying reading anything else, to give that one a chance to get out of my system. Just enjoying the afterglow for now.

jimbunny:
I was a little let down by The Road. Parts of it were brilliant, but if you've read a bit from the "postapocalyptic" genre (e.g. The Stand) there's not much new here, save for some quality writing. I don't regret reading it at all, though, and it goes quickly.

The Cheesinator:
Finished Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote, and I'm currently reading The Joke by Milan Kundera. Way too good.

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