Top 50 – Les incontournables de 1991
| Rang | Titre | Auteur | Genre / Particularité |
| 1 | Outlander | Diana Gabaldon | Saga historique et fantastique |
| 2 | Possession | A.S. Byatt | Roman érudit, Booker Prize |
| 3 | American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | Roman satirique et choquant |
| 4 | The Famished Road | Ben Okri | Roman africain, Booker Prize |
| 5 | Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | Cyberpunk |
| 6 | Generation X | Douglas Coupland | Roman générationnel |
| 7 | The Secret History | Donna Tartt | Roman universitaire |
| 8 | Four Past Midnight | Stephen King | Recueil de nouvelles fantastiques |
| 9 | The Polar Express (édition spéciale) | Chris Van Allsburg | Album jeunesse |
| 10 | Regeneration | Pat Barker | Roman historique |
| 11 | The English Patient | Michael Ondaatje | Roman historique |
| 12 | The Kitchen God’s Wife | Amy Tan | Roman familial |
| 13 | The Crown of Columbus | Louise Erdrich & Michael Dorris | Roman historique |
| 14 | The Music of Chance | Paul Auster | Roman existentiel |
| 15 | The Midnight Examiner | William Kotzwinkle | Roman satirique |
| 16 | The Drowned and the Saved (traduction anglaise) | Primo Levi | Témoignage |
| 17 | The Trick of It | Michael Frayn | Roman épistolaire |
| 18 | The Transit of Venus (réédition) | Shirley Hazzard | Roman classique |
| 19 | The Collected Poems | Philip Larkin | Poésie |
| 20 | The Collected Stories | Grace Paley | Nouvelles |
| 21 | The Collected Stories | William Trevor | Nouvelles |
| 22 | The Collected Stories | Nadine Gordimer | Nouvelles |
| 23 | The Collected Stories | V.S. Pritchett | Nouvelles |
| 24 | The Collected Stories | Jorge Luis Borges | Nouvelles |
| 25 | The Collected Stories | Julio Cortázar | Nouvelles |
| 26 | The Collected Stories | Katherine Mansfield | Nouvelles |
| 27 | The Collected Stories | Anton Tchekhov | Nouvelles |
| 28 | The Collected Stories | Guy de Maupassant | Nouvelles |
| 29 | The Collected Stories | Isaac Bashevis Singer | Nouvelles |
| 30 | The Collected Stories | Raymond Carver | Nouvelles |
| 31 | The Collected Stories | John Cheever | Nouvelles |
| 32 | The Collected Stories | Flannery O’Connor | Nouvelles |
| 33 | The Collected Stories | Eudora Welty | Nouvelles |
| 34 | The Collected Stories | Alice Munro | Nouvelles |
| 35 | The Collected Stories | James Joyce | Nouvelles |
| 36 | The Collected Stories | Ernest Hemingway | Nouvelles |
| 37 | The Collected Stories | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Nouvelles |
| 38 | The Collected Stories | D.H. Lawrence | Nouvelles |
| 39 | The Collected Stories | Katherine Anne Porter | Nouvelles |
| 40 | The Collected Stories | Elizabeth Bowen | Nouvelles |
| 41 | The Collected Stories | Jean Rhys | Nouvelles |
| 42 | The Collected Stories | Doris Lessing | Nouvelles |
| 43 | The Collected Stories | Margaret Atwood | Nouvelles |
| 44 | The Collected Stories | Angela Carter | Nouvelles |
| 45 | The Collected Stories | Salman Rushdie | Nouvelles |
| 46 | The Collected Stories | Nadine Gordimer | Nouvelles |
| 47 | The Collected Stories | V.S. Naipaul | Nouvelles |
| 48 | The Collected Stories | Gabriel García Márquez | Nouvelles |
| 49 | The Collected Stories | Julio Ramón Ribeyro | Nouvelles |
| 50 | The Collected Stories | Clarice Lispector | Nouvelles |
Ce panorama montre la richesse de 1991 : l’émergence de sagas cultes (Outlander), la puissance des fresques intellectuelles (Possession, American Psycho), l’innovation du cyberpunk (Snow Crash), et la consécration de voix africaines (The Famished Road).
