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A


+ Adler, Renata
   - Reckless Disregard
+ Aksynov, Vassily
   - Generations of Winter
+ Allen, Woody
   - Getting Even
   - Side Effects
   - Without Feathers, 2
+ Alvarez, A.
   - The Biggest Game in Town
+ Amis, Kindsley
   - Lucky Jim
+ Amis, Martin
   - London Fields
+ Anderson, Jon Lee
   - Guerrillas
+ Angell, Roger
   - Game Time
+ Atkinson, Rick
   - An Army at Dawn
   - Day of Battle
   - In the Company of Soldiers
+ Atwood, Margaret
   - The Handmaid's Tale

B


+ Ball, Jesse
   - Samedi the Deafness
+ Bayard, Pierre
   - How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
+ Beatty, Paul
   - The White-Boy Shuffle
+ Bellow, Saul
   - Humboldt's Gift
   - Seize the Day
+ Bock, Charles
   - Beautiful Children
+ Bolano, Roberto
   - Amulet
   - Last Evenings on Earth
   - The Savage Detectives
+ Bouillier, Gregiore
   - The Mystery Guest
+ Bourdain, Anthony
   - The Nasty Bits
+ Bowles, Paul
   - Too Far From Home
+ Boyd, William
   - Armadillo
   - A Good Man in Africa
   - An Ice-Cream War
   - Restless
   - Stars and Bars
+ Boyle, T.C.
   - Water Music
+ Boynton, William
   - The New, New Journalism
+ Brown, Chester
   - I Never Liked You
+ Bryson, Bill
   - Neither Here Nor There
+ Bulgakov, Mikhail
   - The Master and Margarita
+ Burdett, John
   - Bangkok 8
+ Byron, Robert
   - The Road to Oxiana

C


+ Calvino, Italo
   - The Baron in the Trees
   - If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
   - The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount
+ Capote, Truman
   - In Cold Blood, 2
+ Carey, Peter
   - His Illegal Self
+ Caro, Robert
   - The Power Broker
+ Carrere, Emmanuel
   - The Class Trip & The Mustache
+ Carson, Anne
   - The Autobiography of Red
+ Cervantes, Miguel
   - Don Quixote, 2
+ Chabon, Michael
   - The Yiddish Policemen's Union, 2
+ Chamoiseau, Patrick
   - Texaco
+ Chandra, Vikram
   - Sacred Games
+ Chang, Eileen
   - Love in a Fallen City
+ Chekhov, Anton
   - Lady with Lapdog and Other Stories
+ Child, Julia
   - My Life in France
+ Christensen, Kate
   - The Epicure's Lament, 2
+ Clark, Martin
   - Plain Heathen Mischief
+ Clarke, Susanna
   - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell
+ Coen, Ethan
   - Gates of Eden
+ Coetzee, J.M.
   - Diary of a Bad Year
   - Waiting for the Barbarians
+ Cohen, Leonard
   - The Favorite Game
+ Cole, Trevor
   - Norman Bray In The Performance Of His Life
+ Connelly, Cyril
   - The Unquiet Grave
+ Conover, Ted
   - Newjack
+ Crane, Elizabeth
   - All This Heavenly Glory
+ Crile, George
   - Charlie Wilson's War
+ Crowley, John
   - Aegypt Cycle
+ Curtis, Rebecca
   - Twenty Grand

D


+ Dahl, Roald
   - Collected Stories
+ Dalton, Quinn
   - Bulletproof Girl
+ Davies, Peter Ho
   - The Welsh Girl
+ Davis, Joshua
   - Underdog
+ Davis, Kathryn
   - The Thin Place
+ Davis, Lisa Selin
   - Belly
+ Dawkins, Richard
   - The God Delusion
+ Dexter, Pete
   - Brotherly Love
   - Paper Trails
   - Paris Trout
   - Train
+ Diaz, Junot
   - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
+ Dobbs, Michael
   - Never Surrender
+ Doctorow, E.L.
   - Creationists
   - Ragtime
+ Donleavy, J.P
   - A Fairy Tale of New York
   - The Ginger Man
+ Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
   - Crime and Punshiment, 2
   - Notes from Underground
+ Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud
   - Missing Soluch
+ Drury, Tom
   - The End of Vandalism
+ Dumas, Alexandre
   - The Count of Monte Cristo, 2
+ Dundy, Elaine
   - The Dud Avocado

E


+ Edmonds, David and Eidinow, John
   - Wittgenstein's Poker
+ Egan, Jennifer
   - The Keep
+ Eggers, Dave
   - What is the What
+ Eisenberg, Deborah
   - Under the 82nd Airborne
+ Endo, Shusako
   - Silence
+ Englund, Steven
   - Napoleon: A Political Life
+ Erard, Michael
   - Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean
+ Evenson, Brian
   - The Open Curtain
+ Eugenides, Jeffrey
   - Middlesex
   - Virgin Suicides
+ Exley, Frederick
   - A Fan's Notes

F


+ Feinstein, John
   - The Last Amateurs
+ Fitch, Janet
   - Paint is Black
   - White Oleander
+ Fitzgerald, F. Scott
   - Jazz Age Stories
+ Flaubert, Gustave
   - Flaubert in Egypt
+ Foer, Jonathan Safran
   - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
+ Fowles, John
   - The French Lieutenant's Woman
   - The Magus
+ Frank, Thomas
   - One Market Under God
+ Franzen, Jonathan
   - The Corrections, 2
+ Freudenberger, Nell
   - The Dissident
+ Fry, Stephen
   - The Hippopotamus
   - The Liar

G


+ Gallant, Mavis
   - Across the Bridge
   - From The Fifteenth District
   - The Pegnitz Junction
+ Gardner, John
   - The Art of Fiction
+ Gardner, Leonard
   - Fat City
+ Garrels, Anne
   - Naked in Baghdad
+ Gass, William H.
   - A Temple of Texts
+ German, Mike
   - Thinking Like a Terrorist
+ Graysmith, Robert
   - Zodiac Unmasked
+ Greene, Graham
   - The Lawless Roads
   - The Power and the Glory
+ Gresser, Edward
   - Freedom From Want
+ Guralnick, Peter
   - Last Train to Memphis
+ Gustafsson, Lars
   - The Death of a Beekeeper

H


+ Hage, Rawi
   - DeNiro's Game
+ Hardy, Thomas
   - Tess of the D'Urbervilles
+ Harvey, Kenneth J.
   - Inside
+ Harvey, Miles
   - The Island of Lost Maps
+ Hazzard, Shirley
   - The Great Fire
+ Hecht, Jennifer Michael
   - Doubt: A History
+ Heller, Joseph
   - Catch-22
   - Catch as Catch Can
+ Helprin, Mark
   - Winter's Tale, 2
+ Heller, Zoe
   - What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
+ Hemingway, Ernest
   - In Our Time
   - A Moveable Feast
   - The Sun Also Rises
+ Hessler, Peter
   - Oracle Bones
+ Heuler, Karen
   - Journey to Bom Goody
Hickey, Dave
   - Air Guitar
+ Hollinghurst, Alan
   - The Line of Beauty
+ Hornby, Nick
   - A Long Way Down
+ Houellebecq, Michel
   - The Possibility of an Island
+ Hugo, Victor
   - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
+ Hughes, Richard
   - A High Wind in Jamaica
+ Huneven, Michelle
   - Jamesland
+ Hunt, Laird
   - The Exquisite
+ Hutton, Susan
   - On the Vanishing of Large Creatures

I


+ Irving, John
   - Setting Free the Bears
+ Iweala, Uzodinma
   - Beasts of No Nation

J


+ Jacobson, Howard
   - Kalooki Nights
+ James, Clive
   - Cultural Amnesia
+ James, Henry
   - The Ambassadors
+ Jergovic, Milijenko
   - Sarajevo Marlboro
+ Johnson, Denis
   - Tree of Smoke
+ Jones, Edward P.
   - All Aunt Hagar's Children
   - The Known World
+ Jones, Judith
   - The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
+ Joyce, Graham
   - The Tooth Fairy

K


+ Kaplan, Robert D.
   - Balkan Ghosts
+ Kapuscinski, Ryszard
   - Shah of Shahs
   - The Soccer War
   - Travels with Herodotus
+ Keegan, John
   - The First World War
+ Kelly, Michael
   - Martyrs' Day
+ Kidder, Tracy
   - The Soul of a New Machine
+ King, Stephen
   - Everything's Eventual
+ Klaus, Ian
   - Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales From The Other Iraq

L


+ Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel
   - 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition
+ Lakhnavi, Ghalib
   - The Adventures of Amir Hamza
+ Langewiesche, William
   - The Atomic Bazaar
   - The Outlaw Sea
+ Lapcharoensap, Rattawut
   - Sightseeing
+ Larsen, Erik
   - Devil in the White City
+ Lasdun, James
   - The Horned Man
+ Laurie, Hugh
   - The Gun Seller
+ Laye, Camara
   - The Radiance of the King
+ Leonard, Elmore
   - The Switch
+ Lethem, Jonathan
   - Fortress of Solitude, 2, 3
   - Motherless Brooklyn
   - You Don't Love Me Yet
+ Levy, Andrea
   - Small Island
+ Lewis, Heather
   - Notice
+ Lewis, Michael
   - Liar's Poker, 2
+ Lipsky, David
   - Absolutely American
+ Lohr, Robert
   - The Chess Machine
+ Loyd, Anthony
   - My War Gone By, I Miss it So

M


+ Manguel, Alberto
   - A History of Reading
+ Mano, D. Keith
   - Take Five
+ Martel, William C.
   - Victory in War
+ McCarthy, Cormac
   - No Country for Old Men
   - The Road, 2
+ McCarthy, Tom
   - Remainder
+ McCullers, Carson
   - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
+ McEwan, Ian
   - Atonement
+ McGahan, Andrew
   - The White Earth
+ McManus, James
   - Positively Fifth Street
+ McPhee, John
   - The Founding Fish
   - Looking for a Ship, 2
+ Meek, James
   - The People's Act of Love
+ Michaels, Leonard
   - Sylvia
+ Miller, Henry
   - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
   - Under the Roofs of Paris
+ Miller, Stephen
   - Conversation: A History of a Dying Art
+ Mitchell, David
   - Black Swan Green
+ Mollod, Phineas and Tesauro, Jason
   - The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice
+ Monson, Ander
   - Other Electricities
+ Moody, Rick
   - The Diviners
+ Moore, Lorrie
   - Like Life
   - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital?
+ Morris, Roger
   - Taking Comfort
+ Murakami, Haruki
   - After Dark
+ Munro, Alice
   - Runaway
+ Murphy, Yannick
   - Signed, Mata Hari
+ Mutis, Alvaro
   - The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll, 2

N


+ Nersesian, Arthur
   - Chinese Takeout

O


+ Ondaatje, Michael
   - Coming Through Slaughter
   - Running in the Family
+ Orlean, Susan
   - The Orchid Thief
+ Orwell, George
   - Down and Out in Paris and London

P


+ Pamuk, Orhan
   - Snow
+ Percy, Walker
   - The Moviegoer, 2
+ Pepper, Art
   - Straight Life
+ Perec, Georges
   - A Void
+ Petterson, Per
   - In the Wake
+ Phillips, Max
   - Fade to Blonde
+ Pollan, Michael
   - In Defense of Food
   - The Omnivore's Dilemma, 2
+ Powell, Anthony
   - A Dance to the Music of Time
+ Powell, Dawn
   - Dance Night
+ Powers, J.F.
   - Wheat That Springeth Green
+ Powers, Richard
   - The Echo Maker, 2
+ Pynchon, Thomas
   - Against the Day

Q


R


+ Rakoff, David
   - Fraud
+ Remnick, David
   - Reporting
+ Robinson, Marilynne
   - Gilead
+ Rosen, Charley
   - The Wizard of Odds
+ Rowling, J.K.
   - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
+ Rubenstein, Wade
   - Gullboy

S


+ Sacks, Oliver
   - The Island Of The Colorblind
+ Salinger, J.D.
   - Franny and Zooey
   - Nine Stories, 2
+ Saramago, Jose
   - Blindness
   - The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
+ Saunders, George
   - Pastoralia
+ Schlosser, Eric
   - Fast Food Nation
+ Schulburg, Budd
   - What Makes Sammy Run
+ Scott, Joanna
   - Liberation
+ Seierstad, Asne
   - A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal, 2
+ Shapiro, Harry and Glebbeek, Caesar
   - Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy
+ Sharpe, Matthew
   - Jamestown
+ Simic, Goran
   - Yesterday's People
+ Simpson, Dick
   - Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps
+ Sinclair, Upton
   - Oil!
+ Sites, Kevin
   - In the Hot Zone
+ Smith, Danyel
   - Bliss
+ Smith, Zadie
   - On Beauty
   - White Teeth
+ Sorrentino, Christopher
   - Trance
+ Steinbeck, John
   - East of Eden, 2
   - The Grapes of Wrath
   - Travels with Charley
+ Steinke, Darcey
   - Jesus Saves
+ Stone, Robert
   - Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
+ Surowiecki, James
   - The Wisdom of Crowds

T


+ Tan, Shaun
   - The Arrival
+ Tedge, Colin
   - The Tree
+ Theroux, Paul
   - Dark Star Safari
   - The Great Railway Bazaar
   - The Old Patagonian Express, 2, 3
+ Thiong'o, Ngugi wa
   - Wizard of the Crow
+ Thomas, Dana
   - Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster
+ Thompson, Hunter S.
   - Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
   - Hey Rube
+ Thurber, James
   - My Life and Hard Times
+ Tillman, Lynne
   - American Genius: A Comedy
+ Tolstaya, Tatyana
   - The Slynx
+ Tosches, Nick
   - Hellfire
+ Turner, Brian
   - Here, Bullet

U


+ Updike, John
   - The Rabbit Angstrom novels
   - Rabbit at Rest

V


+ Various
   - The Best American Magazine Writing 2005
   - Boss Ladies, Watch Out!
   - Language Myths
   - Loud Sparrows
   - Prize Stories of the Seventies from the O. Henry Awards
   - Tales from the Expat Harem
+ Vonnegut, Kurt
   - Slaughterhouse-Five
   - Welcome to the Monkey House

W


+ Walters, Meredith
   - All You Have to Do is Ask
+ Walton, Izaak
   - The Compleat Angler
+ Weiland, Matt and Wilsey, Sean
   - The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup
+ Weiner, Tim
   - Legacy of Ashes
+ Welsh, Irvine
   - Marabou Stork Nightmares
+ Wen, Zhu
   - I Love Dollars
+ Wenner, Jann
   - Gonzo
+ West, Rebecca
   - Black Lamb and Gray Falcon
+ Wilde, Oscar
   - The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
+ Williams, C.K.
   - The Singing
+ Williams, Joy
   - The Quick and the Dead
+ Winchester, Simon
   - The Professor and the Madman
+ Woodrell, Daniel
   - Winter's Bone
+ Wright, Lawrence
   - The Looming Tower
+ Woodruff, Bob
   - In an Instant

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