Outer Dark
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter | 
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Falconer
by John Cheever | 
The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy | 
The Wapshot Chronicle
by John Cheever | 
Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow | 
So Long, See you Tomorrow
by William Maxwell | 
Reflections in a Golden Eye
by Carson McCullers | 
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth | 
Bullet Park
by John Cheever | 
The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy | 
The Counterlife
by Philip Roth | 
The Ghost Writer
by Philip Roth | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
Everything's Eventual
by Stephen King | 
Craven Manor
by Darcy Coates | 
Dreams of Terror and Death
by H. P. Lovecraft | 
Cruel World
by Joe Hart |
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail. While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.