Saul Bellow, Herzog
Pinckney Benedict, Dogs of God
Larry Brown, Fay
Blake Butler, Ever
James M. Cain, The Postman Always Rings Twice
Willa Cather, My Antonia
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
James Dickey, Deliverance
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes
Edward Falco, St. John of the Five Boroughs
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
William Gay, The Long Home
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
Denis Johnson, Fiskadoro
Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn
Tao Lin, Eee Eee Eeeee
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood
Cynthia Ozick, Trust
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Katherine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
Charles Portis, True Grit
J.F. Powers, Morte D'Urban
Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
Richard Price, The Wanderers
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Ron Rash, Serena
Henry Roth, Call It Sleep
Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater
Norman Rush, Mating
J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
Jane Smiley, Good Faith
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis
Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
John Updike, Rabbit, Run
William T. Vollman, Europe Central
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter
John Edgar Wideman, Philadelphia Fire
Daniel Woodrell, Winter's Bone
Steve Yarbrough, The Oxygen Man
Edra Ziesk, The Trespasser