Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

The road by Cormac McCarthy

March by Geraldine Brooks

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The known world by Edward P. Jones

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel by Michael Chabon

Interpreter of maladies : stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

The hours by Michael Cunningham

American pastoral by Philip Roth

Martin Dressler : the tale of an American dreamer by Steven Millhauser

Independence day by Richard Ford

The stone diaries by Carol Shields

The shipping news by E. Annie Proulx

The best American short stories 1992 : selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Robert Stone ; with Katrina Kenison ; with an introduction by Robert Stone

A thousand acres by Jane Smiley

Rabbit at rest by John Updike

The mambo kings play songs of love by Oscar Hijuelos

Breathing lessons by Anne Tyler

Beloved : a novel by Toni Morrison

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

Ironweed : a novel by William Kennedy

The color purple : a novel by Alice Walker

Rabbit is rich by John Updike

A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole ; with a foreword by Walker Percy ; and a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu

The executioner's song by Norman Mailer

The stories of John Cheever by Cheever, John

Elbow room : stories by James Alan McPherson

Humboldt's gift by Saul Bellow

The killer angels by Michael Shaara ; maps by Don Pitcher

The optimist's daughter by Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

Angle of repose by Wallace Stegner