nov 6 2008 ∞
apr 25 2009 +
- Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Gilead: A Novel 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 by Michael Chabon
- Interpreter of Maladies 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
- A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- 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 by Toni Morrison
- A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
- Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
- Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
- Ironweed by William Kennedy
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike, the latest novel in a memorable sequence
- A Confederacy of Dunces by the late John Kennedy Toole (a posthumous publication)
- The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
- The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
- Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
- Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
- The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
- The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
- Collected Stories by Jean Stafford
- House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
- Collected Stories by Katherine Anne Porter
- The Keepers Of The House by Shirley Ann Grau
- The Reivers by William Faulkner
- The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
- To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
- The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor
- A Death In The Family by the late James Agee (a posthumous publication)
- Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- A Fable by William Faulkner
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
- The Town by Conrad Richter
- The Way West by A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
- Guard of Honor by James Gould Cozzens
- Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener
- All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
- Journey in the Dark by Martin Flavin
- Dragon's Teeth by Upton Sinclair
- In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- The Late George Apley by John Phillips Marquand
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis
- Now in November by Josephine Winslow Johnson
- Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller
- The Store by T. S. Stribling
- The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
- Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes
- Laughing Boy by Oliver Lafarge
- Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- Early Autumn by Louis Bromfield
- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
- So Big by Edna Ferber
- The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson
- One of Ours by Willa Cather
- Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington
- His Family by Ernest Poole