Remember Generation X? You know, Slackers? The thirteenth gen? The first generation of Americans to do worse than their parents? Gosh, this was way back in the early nineties, around the time of a Gulf War, a Bush presidency, and widespread joblessness: A time completely unlike our own.

Back in those heady days, magazine editors, Hollywood producers, marketers, and other cultural parasites sold "disaffection" and "irony" back to all the flannel-clad youngsters. Everyone worked (if they worked at all) in these newfangled "coffee bars" and drank delicious OK Soda.

Good times.

Anyway, we hadn't thought much about the old X-Gen in a while (especially since toward the end of that mini media epiphenomonon everyone between the ages of 14 and 40 seemed to be a member), but it all came back, sort of, while skimming this two-part Amazon list: My Generation X literary suggestions, and My Gen-X literary list : Part 2.

All the classics you'd expect are here: Eggers, Hornby, Palahniuk, Sedaris. We don't know about you, but we're beginning to feel disaffected already.

Related: The List's compiler, Dusty Allison, seems to have taken the Amazon moniker "Listmania" a little too literally, posting thirteen pages of lists for your shopping pleasure.

My Generation X literary suggestions

My Gen-X literary list : Part 2