Best Book of the past 25 years is...

Beloved? I just don't get it -- the BEST work of American fiction of the past 25 years is Beloved by Toni Morrison? Runner-ups include Underworld by Don DeLillo and the Rabbit books by John Updike. C'mon people! What about Tim O'Brien, Jane Smiley, Lee Smith, Richard Russo? Admittedly, Beloved is a much better book than Underworld or ANY novel by Cormac McCarthy (have YOU tried to get through All the Pretty Horses??). The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien would be my pick -- what would yours be?