Best Fiction of the Millennium, So Far

Website "The Millions", which covers books, the arts, and culture, polled 48 of its favorite writers, editors and critics and asked each to name their top five novels published since January 1, 2000. Here's their resulting list:

The List:
#20: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
#19: American Genius, A Comedy by Lynne Tillman
#18: Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
#17: The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
#16: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
#15: Varieties of Disturbance by Lydia Davis
#14: Atonement by Ian McEwan
#13: Mortals by Norman Rush
#12: Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
#11: The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
#10: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
#9: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
#8: Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
#7: Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
#6: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
#5: Pastoralia by George Saunders
#4: 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
#3: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
#2: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
#1: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Then they asked website readers the same question and here's their list:

Readers' List:
1 The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
2 2666 by Roberto Bolaño
3 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4 Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
5 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6 Atonement by Ian McEwan
7 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
8 The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
9 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
10 White Teeth by Zadie Smith
11 Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
12 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
13 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
14 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
15 Empire Falls by Richard Russo
16 Runaway by Alice Munro
17 The Master by Colm Tóibín
18 Half of a Yellow Sunby Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
19 Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
20 Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

What do you think? I'm thrilled The Corrections was #1 on the critics' list---it's one of my all-time favorite books. And I'm happy to see Empire Falls and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell on the readers' list. What do you think?