Twenty books as great today as they were in the 90s

At the Huffington Post, Stephen Graham Jones tagged twenty books as great today as they were in the 90s, including:
Bastard Out of Carolina (1993):

And this book changed me, too. You mean, if I wanted to, I could just write about where I grew up? And I don't have to sell it as exotic or weird, I can just tell it the way it is? For some reason I had never considered that. And, Dorothy Alison has