Europe Central
by
William T. Vollmann
Review
"Vollmann [is] a master of synthesis and an intense and compassionate
writer....[A] work of compelling intimacy....Vollmann opens new portals onto a
genocidal war never to be forgotten, and illuminates both the misery and
beauty human beings engender." Booklist (Starred Review) (read
more)
The News
from Paraguay by
Lily Tuck
Review
"Elegant.... Reading The News from Paraguay feels like looking into
a crystal ball: seeing pieces of a garden, storm clouds building, lives
passing." Los Angeles Times (read
more)
The Great
Fire by
Shirley Hazzard
Review
"The Great Fire is one of the most sophisticated novels I've read
in years. Beautiful writing and acute psychological insights." Mark,
Powells.com (read
more)
Review
"Three Junes almost threatens to burst with all the life it
contains. Glass' ability to locate the immense within the particular, and to
simultaneously illuminate and deepen the mysteries of her characters' lives,
would be marvelous in any novelist. In a first-time novelist, it's
extraordinary." Michael Cunningham (read
more)
The
Corrections by
Jonathan Franzen
Review
"Ultimately The Corrections, with its emphasis on sibling rivalry,
the break between generations, and the clash between pious bourgeois
respectability and the slippery mores of this new and alien America, recalls
no novel so much as John Cheever's The Wapshot Scandal. The
Corrections is just as funny and sad and smart as that masterpiece, and
Franzen, like Cheever, reminds us of the timelessness of human folly."
Stewart O'Nan, The Atlantic (read
more)
Review
"Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into
the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, The
Volcano Lover, In America masquerades as historical fiction,
flaunting the stuff of drama and romance. It is something restless, hybrid,
disturbing, original....Sontag gives us a convincing portrait of an artist who
is losing her way, and it would be a pity if all the structural brilliance
that surrounds her were to distract readers from her imperious,
self-dramatizing and fallible character." Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times
(read more)
Review
"Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and
society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly
shifting politics of the moment. With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all
his characters, he vividly reveals the complexities and subtleties of a world
and a people we desperately need to know." Judges' Citation, National Book
Award (read
more)
Charming
Billy by
Alice McDermott
Review
"McDermott fashions her story out of an accumulation of hints and
evasions, secrets and lies. Emotions are closeted, muffled, purged. There are
no explosive confrontations, no charged recriminations. Yet the drama is
enormous, arising from the tension of what isn't said. Billy, an innocent who
couldn't fathom that life is neither poetry nor prayer, is the silent center
of a superbly crafted novel." Dan Cryer, Salon (read
more)
Cold Mountain by
Charles Frazier
Publisher Comments
Based on stories in the author's family, this novel is about a wounded
Civil War soldier who walks away from the hospital and finds his arduous way
home to his sweetheart – a cultured young woman who has been forced to learn
the brutal ways of farm life. The stories of the two lovers are intertwined;
when they converge, they find that their worlds have changed radically, and so
have they. (read
more)
Ship Fever and Other Stories by
Andrea Barrett
Publisher Comments
The love of science, the science of love – and the struggle to reconcile
the two – are the subjects of this remarkable collection, stories and a
novella. Interweaving historical and fictional characters, these stories move
between past and present as they negotiate the complex territory of ambition,
failure, achievement, and shattered dreams. (read
more)
Sabbath's Theater
by
Phillip Roth
Publisher Comments
Mickey Sabbath, an aging, misanthropic puppeteer, embarks on a journey
into his checkered past when his long-time mistress dies. His journey turns
into succession of disasters. And while Sabbath wants to die, he still has too
much life in him to succumb. (read
more)
1994
A Frolic of His Own by
William Gaddis
1993
The Shipping News by
E. Annie Proulx
1992
All the Pretty Horses by
Cormac McCarthy
1991
Mating by
Norman Rush
1990
Middle Passage by
Charles Johnson
1989
Spartina by
John Casey
1988
Paris Trout by
Pete Dexter
1987
Paco's Story by
Larry Heinemann
1986
World's Fair by
E.L. Doctorow
1986
Arctic Dreams by
Barry Lopez
1985
White Noise by
Don Delillo
1985
Easy in the Islands (1st Novel Award) by
Bob Shacochis
1984
Stones for Ibarra (1st Novel Award) by
Harriet Doerr
1984
Victory Over Japan by
Ellen Gilchrist
1983
The Women of Brewster Place by
Gloria Naylor
1983
The Collected Stories by
Eudora Welty
1983
The Color Purple by
Alice Walker
1982
Dale Loves Sophie to Death (1st Novel Award) by
Robb Forman Dew
1982
Rabbit is Rich by
John Updike
1981
Plains Song by
Wright Morris
1981
Sister Wolf (1st Novel Award) by
Ann Arensberg
1980
Birdy (1st Novel Award) by
William Wharton
1980
Sophie's Choice by
William Styron
1980
The World According to Garp by
John Irving
1979
Going After Cacciato by
Tim O'Brien
1978
Blood Ties by
Mary Lee Settle
1977
The Spectator Bird by
Wallace Stegner
1977
Master Tung`s Western Chamber Romance by
Li Li Chen
1976
JR by
William Gaddis
1975
The Hair of Harold Roux by
Thomas Williams
1975
Dog Soldiers by
Robert Stone
1974
Gravity's Ranbow by
Thomas Pynchon
1974
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1973
Augustus by
John Williams
1973
Chimera by
John Barth
1972
The Complete Stories by
Flannery O'Connor
1971
Mr. Sammler's Planet by
Saul Bellow
1970
Them by
Joyce Carol Oates
1969
Steps by
Jerzy Kosinski
1968
The Eighth Day by
Thornton Wilder
1967
The Fixer by
Bernard Malamud
1966
The Collected Stories by
Katherine Anne Porter
1965
Herzog by
Saul Bellow
1964
The Centaur by
John Updike
1963
Morte d'Urban by
J.F. Powers
1962
The Moviegoer by
Walker Percy
1961
The Waters of Kronos by
Conrad Richter
1960
Goodbye Columbus by
Philip Roth
1959
The Magic Barrell by
Bernard Malamud
1958
Wapshot Chronicle by
John Cheever
1957
The Field of Vision by
Wright Morris
1956
Ten North Frederick by
John O'Hara
1955
A Fable by
William Faulkner
1954
The Adventures of Augie March by
Saul Bellow
1953
Invisible Man by
Ralph Ellison
1952
From Here to Eternity by
James Jones
1951
The Collected Stories by
William Faulkner
1950
The Man with the Golden Arm by
Nelson Algren