The Corrections — Jonathan Franzen (2001)

Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections follows the Lambert family's gathering for one last Christmas before the patriarch's Parkinson's disease overwhelms him — a domestic novel that also serves as a comprehensive critique of American consumer culture, pharmaceutical management of personality, and the collapse of collective values in the 1990s. Its publication was accompanied by the most remarkable literary controversy of the decade, including a falling-out with Oprah Winfrey.