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The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey |
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Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe |
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Empire of the Senseless - Kathy Acker |
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven - Sherman Alexie |
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Trash - Dorothy Allison |
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!Yo! - Julia Alvarez |
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The Information - Martin Amis |
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The Hundred Brothers - Donald Antrim |
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Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood |
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The Invention of Solitude - Paul Auster |
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The Fermata - Nicholson Baker |
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Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard |
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Continental Drift - Russell Banks |
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The Book of Evidence - John Banville |
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Regeneration - Pat Barker |
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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters - Julian Barnes |
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Chimera - John Barth |
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Sixty Stories - Donald Barthelme |
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The Watch - Rick Bass |
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Rebel Powers - Richard Bausch |
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Park City - Ann Beattie |
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About Schmidt - Louis Begley |
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The Year of Silence - Madison Smartt Bell |
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Seize the Day - Saul Bellow |
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Once in Europa - John Berger |
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Neighbors - Thomas Berger |
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Women in Their Beds - Gina Berriault |
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Let the Dog Drive - David Bowman |
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Riven Rock - T.C. Boyle |
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Trout Fishing in America - Richard Brautigan |
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Stories in an Almost Classical Mode - Harold Brodkey |
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Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner |
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Hot Water Music - Charles Bukowski |
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Nothing Like the Sun - Anthony Burgess |
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A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain - Robert Olen Butler |
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Possession - A.S. Byatt |
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The Palace Thief - Ethan Canin |
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Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey |
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The Alienist - Caleb Carr |
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Burning Your Boats - Angela Carter |
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Where I'm Calling From - Raymond Carver |
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Mysteries of Pittsburgh - Michael Chabon |
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The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever |
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine - Carolyn Chute |
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The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy |
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The House of Sleep - Jonathan Coe |
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Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee |
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Goodbye Without Leaving - Laurie Colwin |
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Guide - Dennis Cooper |
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The Public Burning - Robert Coover |
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Microserfs - Douglas Coupland |
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The Gospel Singer - Harry Crews |
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Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton |
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The Hours - Michael Cunningham |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory - Edwidge Danticat |
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A Table of Green Fields - Guy Davenport |
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The Rebel Angels - Robertson Davies |
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The End of the Story - Lydia Davis |
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres |
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Dhalgren - Samuel R. Delany |
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Underworld - Don DeLillo |
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Paris Trout - Pete Dexter |
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The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick |
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion |
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The Book of Daniel - E.L. Doctorow |
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Broken Cord - Michael Dorris |
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The Van - Roddy Doyle |
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The Middle Ground - Margaret Drabble |
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Selected Stories - Andre Dubus |
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An Inconvenient Woman - Dominick Dunne |
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All Around Atlantis - Deborah Eisenberg |
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Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis |
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Platitudes - Trey Ellis |
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The Beet Queen - Louise Erdrich |
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Arc D'X - Steve Erickson |
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The Beginning of Spring - Penelope Fitzgerald |
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Moonraker - Ian Fleming |
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Independence Day - Richard Ford |
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Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler |
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The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles |
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The Twenty-Seventh City - Jonathan Franzen |
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JR - William Gaddis |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines |
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Two Girls Fat and Thin - Mary Gaitskill |
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The Sunlight Dialogues - John Gardner |
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Omensetter's Luck - William H. Gass |
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Preston Falls - David Gates |
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Neuromancer - William Gibson |
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The Family Markowitz - Allegra Goodman |
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Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer |
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The Company of Women - Mary Gordon |
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Mister Sandman - Barbara Gowdy |
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The Street Lawyer - John Grisham |
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All - Allan Gurganus |
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Legends of the Fall - Jim Harrison |
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The Lime Twig - John Hawkes |
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Catch-22 - Joseph Heller |
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Memoir from Antproof Case - Mark Helprin |
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Strip Tease - Carl Hiaasen |
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Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love - Oscar Hijuelos |
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Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban |
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Swimming Pool Library - Alan Hollinghurst |
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In a Country of Mothers - A.M. Homes |
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High Fidelity - Nick Hornby |
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The Cider House Rules - John Irving |
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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro |
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Original Sin - P.D. James |
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Slaves of New York - Tama Janowitz |
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Middle Passage - Charles Johnson |
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Angels - Denis Johnson |
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Le Divorce - Diane Johnson |
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The Pugilist at Rest - Thom Jones |
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Fear of Flying - Erica Jong |
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Far Afield - Susanna Kaysen |
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Ironweed - William J. Kennedy |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey |
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Annie John - Jamaica Kincaid |
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It - Stephen King |
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Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver |
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The Painted Bird - Jerzy N. Kosinski |
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The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi |
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - 122. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold |
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Always Coming Home - Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Family Dancing - David Leavitt |
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Di and I - Peter Lefcourt |
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Glitz - Elmore Leonard |
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The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing |
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Girl in Landscape - Jonathan Lethem |
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Et Tu, Babe - Mark Leyner |
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Advertisements for Myself - Norman Mailer |
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The Complete Stories - Bernard Malamud |
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Mary Reilly - Valerie Martin |
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Bone - Peter Matthiessen |
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Tales of the City - Armistead Maupin |
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Blood Meridian - Cormac Mccarthy |
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The Giant's House - Elizabeth McCracken |
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Charming Billy - Alice Mcdermott |
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Plus - Joseph McElroy |
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The Child in Time - Ian Mcewan |
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Spider - Patrick Mcgrath |
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Ninety-two in the Shade - Thomas Mcguane |
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Story of My Life - Jay Mcinerney |
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Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan |
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All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers - Larry McMurtry |
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Edwin Mullhouse - Steven Millhauser |
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The Ice Storm - Rick Moody |
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Birds of America - Lorrie Moore |
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Sula - Toni Morrison |
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Black Betty - Walter Mosley |
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Jasmine - Bharati Mukherjee |
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Open Secrets - Alice Munro |
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The Bell - Iris Murdoch |
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A House for Mr. Biswas - V.S. Naipaul |
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Mama Day - Gloria Naylor |
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Everything and More - Geoff Nicholson |
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Wonderland - Joyce Carol Oates |
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A Fanatic Heart - Edna O'Brien |
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The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien |
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The Famished Road - Ben Okri |
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The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje |
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The Puttermesser Papers - Cynthia Ozick |
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute - Grace Paley |
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Martin and John - Dale Peck |
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The Moviegoer - Walker Percy |
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Machine Dreams - Jayne Anne Phillips |
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Braided Lives - Marge Piercy |
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Gold Bug Variations - Richard Powers |
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Kate Vaiden - Reynolds Price |
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Clockers - Richard Price |
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Postcards - Annie Proulx |
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The Fortunate Pilgrim - Mario Puzo |
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Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon |
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Flight to Canada - Ishmael Reed |
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Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice |
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins |
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The Counterlife - Philip Roth |
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Mating - Norman Rush |
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The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie |
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The Risk Pool - Richard Russo |
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A Sport and a Pastime - James Salter |
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Clover - Dori Sanders |
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Various Antidotes - Joanna Scott |
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Great Apes - Will Self |
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The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth |
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The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields |
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Anywhere but Here - Mona Simpson |
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The Age of Grief - Jane Smiley |
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Devil's Dream - Lee Smith |
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Blue Movie - Terry Southern |
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Complete Fiction of W.M. Spackman - W. M. Spackman |
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark |
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Endless Love - Scott Spencer |
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Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner |
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Snow Crash. - Neal Stephenson |
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Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone |
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Sophie's Choice - William Styron |
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Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann |
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Last Orders - Graham Swift |
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The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan |
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The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux |
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The Heather Blazing - Colm Toibin |
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The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Among the Dead - Michael Tolkin |
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Sacred Country - Rose Tremain |
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William Trevor - William Trevor |
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Tallien - Frederic Tuten |
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant - Anne Tyler |
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Rabbit Is Rich - John Updike |
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Julian - Gore Vidal |
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The Atlas - William Vollmann |
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Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut |
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I'm Losing You - Bruce Wagner |
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The Color Purple - Alice Walker |
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Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace |
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Life and Loves of a She Devil - Fay Weldon |
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Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh |
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A Curtain of Green - Eudora Welty |
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Gala - Paul West |
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A Boy's Own Story - Edmund White |
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Philadelphia Fire - John Edgar Wideman |
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson |
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The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe |
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In The Garden Of The North American Martyrs - Tobias Wolff |
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M31 - Stephen Wright |
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