1) “Mr. Sammler’s Planet,” by Saul Bellow
2) “Ravelstein,” by Saul Bellow
3) “Bunner Sisters,” by Edith Wharton
4) “The Dean’s December,” by Saul Bellow
5) “Morte D’Urban,” by J.F. Powers
6) “A Theft,” by Saul Bellow
7) “The Bellarosa Connection,” by Saul Bellow
8) “Teeth, Dying & other matters,” by Richard G. Stern
9) “Tales of Grabowski,” by John Auerbach
10) “The Actual,” by Saul Bellow
11) “A Father’s Words,” by Richard Stern
12) “Other Men’s Daughters,” by Richard Stern
13) “A Widow for One Year,” by John Irving
14) “Natural Shocks,” by Richard Stern
15) “Stitch,” by Richard Stern
16) “Wise Blood,” by Flannery O’Connor
17) “Golk,” by Richard Stern
18) “My Life as a Man,” by Philip Roth
19) “Zuckerman unbound,” by Philip Roth
20) “Anatomy Lesson,” by Philip Roth
21) “The Prague Orgy,” by Philip Roth
22) “Framley Parsonage,” by Anthony Trollope
23) “Scoop,” by Evelyn Waugh
24) “The Moviegoer,” by Walker Percy
25) “The Counterlife,” by Philip Roth
26) “The Last Gentleman,” by Walker Percy
27) “The Facts,” by Philip Roth
28) “The Adventures of Augie March,” by Saul Bellow
29) “Patrimony,” by Philip Roth
30) “The Plot Against America,” by Philip Roth
31) “Sabbath’s Theater,” by Philip Roth
32) “Half a Life,” by V.S. Naipaul
33) “Staggerford,” by Jon Hassler
34) “American Hunger,” by Richard Wright
35) “Charles Dickens: Volume One,” Edgar Johnson
36) “The Staggerford Flood,” by Jon Hassler
37) “Jude the Obscure,” by Thomas Hardy
38) “The Great Dissent,” by Thomas Healy
39) “Eclipse,” by John Banville
40) “The Headmaster’s Dilemma,” by Louis Auchinloss
41) “The Rector of Justin,” by Louis Auchinloss
42) “Richard Wright: The Life and Times,” by Hazel Rowley
43) “Thornton Wilder: a life,” by Penelope Niven
44) “The Winter of Our Discontent,” by John Steinbeck
45) “Rex Stout: a biography,” by John McAleer
46) “The Idiot,” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky