- The Road , Cormac McCarthy (2006)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J.K. Rowling (2000)
- ✔ Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- The Liars' Club, Mary Karr (1995)
- American Pastoral, Philip Roth (1997)
- Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2001)
- Maus, Art Spiegelman (1986/1991)
- Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)
- Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)
- Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)
- Blindness, José Saramago (1998)
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)
- Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)
- ✔ The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood (1986)
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1988)
- Rabbit at Rest, John Updike (1990)
- On Beauty, Zadie Smith (2005)
- Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding (1998)
- On Writing, Stephen King (2000)
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)
- The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (1996)
- Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
- Neuromancer, William Gibson (1984)
- Possession, A.S. Byatt (1990)
- Naked, David Sedaris (1997)
- Bel Canto, Anne Patchett (2001)
- Case Histories, Kate Atkinson (2004)
- The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien (1990)
- Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch (1988)
- ✔ The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (2005)
- ✔ The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2002)
- The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
- ✔ Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt (1996)
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)
- Birds of America, Lorrie Moore (1998)
- Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri (2000)
- His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (1995-2000)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- LaBrava, Elmore Leonard (1983)
- Borrowed Time, Paul Monette (1988)
- Praying for Sheetrock, Melissa Fay Greene (1991)
- Eva Luna, Isabel Allende (1988)
- Sandman, Neil Gaiman (1988-1996)
- World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow (1985)
- ✔ The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver (1998)
- Clockers, Richard Price (1992)
- The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen (2001)
- The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcom (1990)
- Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon (2000)
- Jimmy Corrigan, Chris Ware (2000)
- ✔ The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls (2006)
- The Night Manager, John le Carré (1993)
- The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe (1987)
- Drop City, TC Boyle (2003)
- Krik? Krak! Edwidge Danticat (1995)
- Nickel & Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich (2001)
- Money, Martin Amis (1985)
- Last Train To Memphis, Peter Guralnick (1994)
- Pastoralia, George Saunders (2000)
- Underworld, Don DeLillo (1997)
- ✔ The Giver, Lois Lowry (1993)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, David Foster Wallace (1997)
- ✔ The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2003)
- Fun Home, Alison Bechdel (2006)
- Secret History, Donna Tartt (1992)
- Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2004)
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman (1997)
- ✔ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (2003)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving (1989)
- Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger (1990)
- Cathedral, Raymond Carver (1983)
- A Sight for Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell (1998)
- The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
- ✔ Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2006)
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (2000)
- Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney (1984)
- Backlash, Susan Faludi (1991)
- Atonement, Ian McEwan (2002)
- The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields (1994)
- Holes, Louis Sachar (1998)
- Gilead, Marilynne Robinson (2004)
- And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts (1987)
- The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006)
- High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995)
- Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999)
- Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001)
- Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003)
- Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1987)
- A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1991)
- Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser (2001)
- Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)
- ✔ The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2003)
- Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson (1992)
- The Predators' Ball, Connie Bruck (1988)
- Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1995)
- America (the Book), Jon Stewart/Daily Show (2004)
dec 12 2008 ∞
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