The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years

The 30 best fiction books of the last 30 years

To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select the 30 best fiction books since the festival was inaugurated.

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