best American work of fiction?

In the last 25 years? The New York Times Magazine said:

The Winner:

• Beloved Toni Morrison (1987)

The Runners-Up:

• Underworld Don DeLillo (1997)
• Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy (1985)
• Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels John Updike (1995)
• American Pastoral Philip Roth (1997)

The following books also received multiple votes:

• A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole (1980)
• Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson (1980)...and others