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Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Half of a Yellow Sun
Adler, Renata
Reckless Disregard
Aksynov, Vassily
Generations of Winter
Allen, Woody
Getting Even
Side Effects
Without Feathers, 2
Alvarez, A.
The Biggest Game in Town
Ames, Jonathan
The Alcoholic
Amis, Kingsley
Everyday Drinking
Lucky Jim, 2
Amis, Martin
London Fields, 2
The Rachel Papers
Anderson, Jon Lee
Guerrillas
Anderson, M.T.
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, 2, 3
Angell, Roger
Game Time
Atkinson, Rick
An Army at Dawn
Day of Battle
In the Company of Soldiers
Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid’s Tale
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Ball, Jesse
Samedi the Deafness
The Way Through Doors
Barker, Pat
The Regeneration Trilogy
Bataille, Marion
ABC3D
Bayard, Pierre
How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read
Beatty, Paul
The White-Boy Shuffle
Bellow, Saul
Humboldt’s Gift
Seize the Day
Berrigan, Ted
The Sonnets
Berryman, John
The Dream Songs
Binelli, Mark
Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die
Birmajer, Marcelo
Three Musketeers
Bock, Charles
Beautiful Children
Bolaño, Roberto
2666
Amulet
Last Evenings on Earth
Nazi Literature in the Americas
The Savage Detectives
The Skating Rink, 2
Bouillier, Gregiore
The Mystery Guest
Bourdain, Anthony
The Nasty Bits
Bowles, Paul
The Sheltering Sky
Too Far From Home
Boyd, William
Any Human Heart
Armadillo
A Good Man in Africa
An Ice-Cream War
Restless
Stars and Bars
Boyle, T.C.
Water Music
Boynton, William
The New, New Journalism
Brautigan, Richard
Sombrero Fallout
Brown, Chester
I Never Liked You
Brooks, Bruce
The Moves Make the Man
Burton, Robert
The Anatomy of Melancholy
Butler, Samuel
The Way of All Flesh
Bryson, Bill
Neither Here Nor There
A Walk in the Woods
Buckler, Julie A.
Mapping St. Petersburg
Bulgakov, Mikhail
The Master and Margarita
Burdett, John
Bangkok 8
Byron, Robert
The Road to Oxiana
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Calvino, Italo
The Baron in the Trees
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
Camus, Albert
American Journals
Capote, Truman
In Cold Blood, 2
Carey, Peter
His Illegal Self
Caro, Robert
The Power Broker
Carrere, Emmanuel
The Class Trip & The Mustache
Carson, Anne
The Autobiography of Red
Carter, Angela
The Bloody Chamber
Cather, Willa
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cervantes, Miguel
Don Quixote, 2
Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 2
Chamoiseau, Patrick
Texaco
Chandra, Vikram
Sacred Games
Chang, Eileen
Love in a Fallen City
Chekhov, Anton
Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
Child, Julia
My Life in France
Christensen, Kate
The Epicure’s Lament, 2
Clark, Martin
Plain Heathen Mischief
Clarke, Susanna
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell
Codrescu, Andrei
The Posthuman Dada Guide
Coen, Ethan
Gates of Eden
Coetzee, J.M.
Diary of a Bad Year
Waiting for the Barbarians
Cohen, Leonard
The Favorite Game
Cole, Trevor
Norman Bray In The Performance Of His Life
Connelly, Cyril
The Unquiet Grave
Conover, Ted
Newjack
Coyne, Kelly
The Urban Homestead
Crane, Elizabeth
All This Heavenly Glory
Crile, George
Charlie Wilson’s War
Crowley, John
Aegypt Cycle
Currie, Jr., Ron
Everything Matters!
Curtis, Rebecca
Twenty Grand
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Dahl, Roald
Collected Stories
Dalton, Quinn
Bulletproof Girl
D’Ambrosio, Charles
The Dead Fish Museum
Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves
Davies, Peter Ho
The Welsh Girl
Davis, Joshua
Underdog
Davis, Kathryn
The Thin Place
Davis, Lisa Selin
Belly
Davis, Lydia
Varieties of Disturbance
Dawkins, Richard
The God Delusion
Dexter, Pete
Brotherly Love
Paper Trails
Paris Trout
Train
Diaz, Junot
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2, 3
Dillard, Annie
The Maytrees
Dobbs, Michael
Never Surrender
Doctorow, E.L.
Creationists
Ragtime
Donleavy, J.P
A Fairy Tale of New York
The Ginger Man
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime and Punshiment, 2
Notes from Underground
Dovey, Ceridwen
Blood Kin
Dovlatov, Sergei
Ours: A Russian Family Album
Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud
Missing Soluch
Drury, Tom
The End of Vandalism
Dumas, Alexandre
The Count of Monte Cristo, 2
Dundy, Elaine
The Dud Avocado
Durrell, Gerald
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives
My Family and Other Animals
Durrell, Lawrence
Justine
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Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John
Wittgenstein’s Poker
Egan, Jennifer
The Keep
Eggers, Dave
What is the What
Zeitoun
Eisenberg, Deborah
Twilight of the Superheroes
Under the 82nd Airborne
Eliot, George
Middlemarch
Endo, Shusako
Silence
Englund, Steven
Napoleon: A Political Life
Erard, Michael
Um…: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
Evenson, Brian
The Open Curtain
Eugenides, Jeffrey
Middlesex, 2
Virgin Suicides
Exley, Frederick
A Fan’s Notes
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Fanelli, Sara
Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am
Feinstein, John
The Last Amateurs
Fielding, Henry
Tom Jones
Finger, Anne
Call Me Ahab
Fitch, Janet
Paint is Black
White Oleander
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Jazz Age Stories
Flaubert, Gustave
Flaubert in Egypt
Flynn, Nick
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foer, Jonathan Safran
Eating Animals
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ford, Ford Madox
The Good Soldier
Ford, Richard
Independence Day
The Lay of the Land
Fowles, John
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
The Magus
Frank, Thomas
One Market Under God
Frankfurt, Harry G.
On Bullshit
Franzen, Jonathan
The Corrections, 2, 3
Freeman, Judith
The Long Embrace
Freudenberger, Nell
The Dissident
Fry, Stephen
The Hippopotamus
The Liar
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Gaddis, William
The Recognitions
Gallant, Mavis
Across the Bridge
From The Fifteenth District
The Pegnitz Junction
Gardner, John
The Art of Fiction
Gardner, Leonard
Fat City
Garrels, Anne
Naked in Baghdad
Gass, William H.
A Temple of Texts
Gaz, Stan
Sites of Impact
Gellman, Barton
The Angler
Gelman, Andrew
Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State
German, Mike
Thinking Like a Terrorist
Gibson, William
Neuromancer
Gilbert, Elizabeth
Eat, Pray, Love
Gober, Robert
Heat Waves in a Swamp
Goldman, Francisco
The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed The Bishop?
Gorey, Edward
The Curious Sofa
Grass, Gunter
The Tin Drum
Graysmith, Robert
Zodiac Unmasked
Greene, Graham
The Captain and the Enemy
The Comedians
The Heart of the Matter
The Lawless Roads
The Power and the Glory
Gresser, Edward
Freedom From Want
Guralnick, Peter
Last Train to Memphis
Gustafsson, Lars
The Death of a Beekeeper
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Hage, Rawi
DeNiro’s Game
Handke, Peter
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Hardy, Thomas
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Harvey, David
The Limits of Capital
Harvey, Kenneth J.
Inside
Harvey, Miles
The Island of Lost Maps
Hasak-Lowy, Todd
Captives
Hazzard, Shirley
The Great Fire
Hecht, Jennifer Michael
Doubt: A History
Hecht, Julie
The Unprofessionals
Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
Catch as Catch Can
Helprin, Mark
Winter’s Tale, 2
Heller, Zoe
What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
Hemingway, Ernest
In Our Time
A Moveable Feast
The Sun Also Rises
Hemon, Aleksandar
The Lazarus Project, 2
Hensher, Philip
The Northern Clemency
Herzog, Maurice
Annapurna
Hessler, Peter
Oracle Bones
Heuler, Karen
Journey to Bom Goody
Hickey, Dave
Air Guitar
Hoban, Russell
Riddley Walker
Hollinghurst, Alan
The Line of Beauty
Hornby, Nick
A Long Way Down
Houellebecq, Michel
The Possibility of an Island
Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hughes, Richard
A High Wind in Jamaica
Hundertwasser
Hundertwasser Complete Graphic Work 1951-1976
Huneven, Michelle
Jamesland
Hunt, Laird
The Exquisite
Hutton, Susan
On the Vanishing of Large Creatures
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Irving, John
Setting Free the Bears
Ishiguru, Kazuo
Never Let Me Go, 2
Nocturnes
Iweala, Uzodinma
Beasts of No Nation
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Jacobson, Howard
Kalooki Nights
James, Clive
Cultural Amnesia
James, Henry
The Ambassadors
Jergovic, Milijenko
Sarajevo Marlboro
Johnson, B.S.
The Unfortunates
Johnson, Denis
Tree of Smoke
Jones, Edward P.
All Aunt Hagar’s Children
The Known World, 2
Jones, Judith
The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
Jonke, Gert
The System of Vienna
Joyce, Graham
The Tooth Fairy
Jungersen, Christian
The Exception
K
Kaplan, Robert D.
Balkan Ghosts
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Shah of Shahs
The Soccer War
Travels with Herodotus
Keegan, John
The First World War
Kelly, Michael
Martyrs’ Day
Kennedy, A.L.
Paradise
Kidder, Tracy
The Soul of a New Machine
Kimmelman, Michael
Portraits, Talking with Artists at the Met, The Modern, The Louvre and Elsewhere
King, Stephen
Everything’s Eventual
Kipling, Rudyard
Kim
Klam, Julie
Please Excuse My Daughter
Klaus, Ian
Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales From The Other Iraq
Kneale, Matthew
The English Passengers
When We Were Romans
Koestler, Arthur
Darkness at Noon
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Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel
13: The Story of the World’s Most Popular Superstition
Lakhnavi, Ghalib
The Adventures of Amir Hamza
Langewiesche, William
The Atomic Bazaar
The Outlaw Sea
Lapcharoensap, Rattawut
Sightseeing
Larsen, Erik
Devil in the White City
Lasdun, James
The Horned Man
Laurie, Hugh
The Gun Seller
LaValle, Victor
Big Machine
Lawrence, T.E.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Laye, Camara
The Radiance of the King
Le, Nam
The Boat
Lesi, Michael
Wisconsin Death Trip
Leonard, Elmore
The Switch
Lessing, Doris
The Golden Notebook
Lethem, Jonathan
Fortress of Solitude, 2, 3, 4
Motherless Brooklyn
The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye
You Don’t Love Me Yet
Levy, Andrea
Small Island
Lewis, Heather
Notice
Lewis, Michael
Liar’s Poker, 2
Link, Kelly
Pretty Monsters
Stranger Things Happen
Lipsky, David
Absolutely American
Littell, Jonathan
The Kindly Ones
Livesy, Margot
The House on Fortune Street
Lohr, Robert
The Chess Machine
Lopate, Philip
Two Marriages
Louis, Jay
Hot Chicks with Douchebags
Loyd, Anthony
My War Gone By, I Miss it So
M
Mandel, Emily St. John
Last Night in Montreal
Manguel, Alberto
A History of Reading
Mano, D. Keith
Take Five
Marcom, Micheline Aharonian
The Mirror in the Well
Martel, William C.
Victory in War
Martin, Clancy
How to Sell
Martinez, Guillermo
The Book of Murder
Maugham, Somerset
Of Human Bondage
Maxwell, William
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Mazzucchelli, David
Asterios Polyp
McCann, Colum
Let the Great World Spin
McCarthy, Cormac
No Country for Old Men
The Road, 2, 3, 4
McCarthy, Tom
Remainder
McCracken, Elizabeth
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
McCullers, Carson
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
McEwan, Ian
Atonement, 2
McGahan, Andrew
The White Earth
McManus, James
Positively Fifth Street
McPhee, John
Annals of the Former World
The Founding Fish
Looking for a Ship, 2
Meek, James
The People’s Act of Love
Melville, Herman
Moby Dick, 2
Messer, Sarah
Red House
Meyer, Jane
The Dark Side
Michaels, Leonard
Sylvia
Miller, Henry
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Under the Roofs of Paris
Miller, Stephen
Conversation: A History of a Dying Art
Milton, John
Paradise Lost
Mitchell, David
Black Swan Green
Cloud Atlas
Mollod, Phineas and Tesauro, Jason
The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice
Monson, Ander
Other Electricities
Moody, Rick
The Diviners
Moore, Lorrie
A Gate at the Stairs
Like Life
Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
Morris, Roger
Taking Comfort
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
A Mercy
Moya, Horacio Castellanos
Senselessness
Mueenuddin, Daniyal
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Murakami, Haruki
After Dark
Murdoch, Iris
Under the Net
Munro, Alice
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Runaway
Murphy, Yannick
Signed, Mata Hari
Mutis, Alvaro
The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, 2
The Mansion
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Naipaul, V.S.
A Bend in the River
Nersesian, Arthur
Chinese Takeout
Niffenegger, Audrey
The Adventuress
Nunez, Sigrid
The Last of Her Kind
O
O’Connor, Flannery
Wise Blood
Ogawa, Yoko
The Diving Pool
O’Hara, John
Appointment in Samarra
Ondaatje, Michael
Coming Through Slaughter
Running in the Family
O’Neill, Joseph
Netherland, 2
Orlean, Susan
The Orchid Thief
Orwell, George
Down and Out in Paris and London
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Pamuk, Orhan
Istanbul, 2
Snow
Parkvall, Mikael
Limits of Language
Percy, Walker
The Moviegoer, 2
Pepper, Art
Straight Life
Perec, Georges
A Void
Petterson, Per
In the Wake
Out stealing Horses
Phillips, Arthur
The Song is You
Phillips, Max
Fade to Blonde
Pollan, Michael
In Defense of Food
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, 2
Portman, Frank
King Dork
Pound, Ezra
The Cantos
Powell, Anthony
A Dance to the Music of Time
Powell, Dawn
Dance Night
Powers, J.F.
Wheat That Springeth Green
Powers, Richard
The Echo Maker, 2
Pynchon, Thomas
Against the Day
Inherent Vice
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R
Rabagliati, Michael
Paul Goes Fishing
Rakoff, David
Fraud
Remnick, David
Reporting
Richardson, Samuel
Clarissa
Richler, Mordecai
Barney’s Version
Rieman, Rob
Nobility of Spirit
Ritter, Lawrence
The Glory of Their Times
Robinson, Marilynne
Gilead, 2
Rosen, Charley
The Wizard of Odds
Roth, Philip
American Pastoral
Rowling, J.K.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Rubenstein, Wade
Gullboy
Rush, Norman
Mortals
S
Sacks, Oliver
The Island Of The Colorblind
Salinger, J.D.
Franny and Zooey
Nine Stories, 2
Saramago, Jose
Blindness
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Saunders, George
Pastoralia, 2
Schlosser, Eric
Fast Food Nation
Schulburg, Budd
What Makes Sammy Run
Scott, Joanna
Liberation
Sebald, W.G.
Austerlitz
Seidel, Frederick
Ooga-Booga
Seierstad, Asne
A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, 2
Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are
Shales, Tom
Live From New York
Shapiro, Harry and Glebbeek, Caesar
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
Sharpe, Matthew
Jamestown
Shields, David
Reality Hunger
Simenon, Georges
Red Lights
Simic, Goran
Yesterday’s People
Simpson, Dick
Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps
Sinclair, Lewis
Main Street
Sinclair, Upton
Oil!
Sites, Kevin
In the Hot Zone
Sittenfeld, Curtis
American Wife
Slash
Slash
Smith, Danyel
Bliss
Smith, Zadie
On Beauty
White Teeth
Snow, C.P.
The Strangers and Brothers Series
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Cancer Ward
Sontag, Susan
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-63
Sorrentino, Christopher
Trance
Steinbeck, John
East of Eden, 2
The Grapes of Wrath
Travels with Charley
Steinke, Darcey
Jesus Saves
Stendhal
The Red and the Black
Sterne, Laurence
Tristram Shandy, 2
Stoker, Bram
Dracula
Stone, Robert
Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
Surowiecki, James
The Wisdom of Crowds
Suskind, Patrick
Perfume
Swift, Jonathan
A Tale of a Tub
T
Tan, Shaun
The Arrival
Tedge, Colin
The Tree
Thapa, Manjushree
The Tutor of History
Theroux, Paul
Dark Star Safari
The Elephanta Suite
The Great Railway Bazaar
The Old Patagonian Express, 2, 3
Thewlis, David
The Late Hector Kipling
Thiong’o, Ngugi wa
Wizard of the Crow
Thomas, Dana
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster
Thompson, Hunter S.
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72
Hey Rube
Thurber, James
My Life and Hard Times
Tillman, Lynne
American Genius: A Comedy, 2
Toews, Miriam
The Flying Troutmans
Tolle, Ekhart
A New Earth
Tolstaya, Tatyana
The Slynx
Tolstoy, Leo
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Tosches, Nick
Hellfire
Tower, Wells
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
Trillin, Calvin
The Tummy Trilogy
Trollope, Anthony
Barchester Towers
Turner, Brian
Here, Bullet
U
Updike, John
The Maples Stories
The Rabbit Angstrom novels
Rabbit at Rest
Rabbit Redux
Roger’s Version
V
Various
The Best American Magazine Writing 2005
Boss Ladies, Watch Out!
The Ends of the Earth
Language Myths
Loud Sparrows
Prize Stories of the Seventies from the O. Henry Awards
Tales from the Expat Harem
Transit Tehran
Vonnegut, Kurt
Look at the Birdie
Slaughterhouse-Five
Welcome to the Monkey House
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Waller, David
The Magnificent Mrs. Tennant
Walters, Meredith
All You Have to Do is Ask
Walton, Izaak
The Compleat Angler
Weidhaas, Peter
A History of the Frankfurt Book Fair
Weiland, Matt and Wilsey, Sean
The Thinking Fan’s Guide to the World Cup
Weiner, Tim
Legacy of Ashes
Welsh, Irvine
Marabou Stork Nightmares
Wen, Zhu
I Love Dollars
Wenner, Jann
Gonzo
West, Rebecca
Black Lamb and Gray Falcon
Whitehead, Colson
The Intuitionist
Wideman, John Edgar
Fanon
Wilde, Oscar
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Williams, C.K.
The Singing
Williams, Joy
The Quick and the Dead
The Florida Keys
Wilson, Carl
Let’s Talk About Love
Winchester, Simon
The Professor and the Madman
Wineapple, Brenda
White Heat
Woodrell, Daniel
Winter’s Bone
Wright, Evan
Hella Nation
Wright, Lawrence
The Looming Tower
Wright, Richard
Native Son
Woodruff, Bob
In an Instant
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Y
Yates, Richard
Revolutionary Road
Yokoyama, Yuichi
New Engineering
Z
Zaller, John
The Nature and Origens of Mass Opinion