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Celebrating the new classics: The 1000 best movies, TV shows, albums, books, and more of the past 25 years

100 New Book Classics: No. 75-51

Here's part two of our countdown of the books from 1983 to today that rank as the era's gold standard — see why tomes like ''Bonfire of the Vanities,'' ''Friday Night Lights,'' ''Waiting to Exhale,'' and more make the grade

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100 New Book Classics: No. 75-51

75. CATHEDRAL, Raymond Carver (1984)

Drinking problems, rocky marriages, money troubles. These are the recurring motifs in Carver's plainspoken fiction. His penultimate collection includes the memorable tale ''A Small Good Thing,'' about a misunderstanding involving a birthday cake, an irritable baker, and a dead child.

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