A Selection: The 21st Century edition

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle – David Wroblewski (7/09)

And Then We Came to the End – Joshua Ferris (6/09)

The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas (5/09)

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer (3/09)

The Year of Magical Thinking – Joan Didion (2/09)

No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July (2/09)

The 42nd Parallel – John Dos Passos (1/09)

In the Devil’s Territory – Kyle Minor (1/09)

Bob, Or Man on Boat – Peter Markus (1/09)

Telex From Cuba – Rachel Kushner (12/08)

All the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy

The Crossing – Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain – Cormac McCarthy (9/08)

Lives of the Poets – E.L. Doctorow (8/08)

Don’t Get Too Comfortable – David Rackoff (8/08)

Drown – Junot Diaz

The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz (2/08)

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (7/08)

Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout (7/08)

1,000 Places to See Before You Die – Patricia Schultz (7/08)

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs – Chuck Klosterman (5/08)

IV – Chuck Klosterman (6/08)

The Love Artist – Jane Allison (6/08)

The Translator’s Diary – Jon Pineda (6/08)

Dogs of God – Pinckney Benedict (6/08)

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

Something Happened – Joseph Heller

Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger

Spider – Patrick McGrath

Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

Birds of America – Lori Moore

Surreal South – Pinckney and Laura Benedict, eds.

In Search of Lost Time: Swann’s Way – Marcel Proust

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere – Z.Z. Packer

The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie

Safekeeping – Abigail Thomas

Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

The Passion – Jeanette Winterson

Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

The Winter of Our Discontent – John Steinbeck

East of Eden – John Steinbeck

Travels with Charlie in Search of America – John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

This Clumsy Living – Bob Hicok

Jesus’ Son – Denis Johnson

American Pastoral – Philip Roth

Red Ant House – Ann Cummins

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius – Dave Eggers

You Shall Know Our Velocity – Dave Eggers

The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Dubliners – James Joyce

In Persuasion Nation – George Saunders

The Perfect Man – Naeem Murr

The Boy – Naeem Murr

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

No Telephone to Heaven – Michelle Cliff

Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Julia Alvarez

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Brown

The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

Sailing Alone Around the Room – Billy Collins

The Bad Wife Handbook – Rachael Zucker

To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf

Blindness – Jose Saramago

Seeing – Jose Saramago

The King Must Die – Mary Renault

Schindler’s List – Thomas Kneally

Le Morte D’Arthur – Thomas Malory

Dracula – Bram Stoker

Coming Through Slaughter – Michael Ondaatje

Divisadero – Michael Ondaatje