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       
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor     
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie       
Ironweed by William Kennedy        
Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike      
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever    
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson      
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     
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury      
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters by Robert Lewis Taylor   
A Death in the Family by James Agee    
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor        
A Fable by William Faulkner       
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk      
The Town by Conrad Richter       
The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.     
Ann Patchett Bel Canto        
Philip Roth The Human Stain       
Ha Jin Waiting         
Michael Cunningham The Hours        
Rafi Zabor The Bear Comes Home      
Gina Berriault Women in their Beds      
Richard Ford Independecne Day        
David Guterson Snow Falling on Cedars      
Philip Roth Operation Shylock        
E. Annie Proulx Postcards        
Don Delillo Mao II        
John Edgar Wideman Philadelphia Fire       
E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate        
James Salter Dusk         
T. Coraghessan Boyle World's End       
Richard Wiley Soldiers in Hiding       
Peter Taylor The Old Forest       
Julia Glass Three Junes        
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections        
Susan Sontag In America        
Ha Jin Waiting         
Alice McDermott Charming Billy        
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain        
Andrea Barrett Ship Fever and Other Stories     
Philip Roth Sabbath.s Theater        
William Gaddis A Frolic of His Own     
E. Annie Proulx The Shipping News      
Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses      
Norman Rush Mating         
Charles Johnson Middle Passage        
John Casey Spartina