Novel About My Wife
by Emily Perkins | 
Nobody Is Ever Missing
by Catherine Lacey | 
Towards Another Summer
by Janet Frame | 
Andrew's Brain
by E. L. Doctorow | 
Kitty Foyle
by Christopher Morley | 
This Side of Innocence
by Taylor Caldwell | 
Point of No Return
by John P. Marquand | 
Pilgrim's Inn
by Elizabeth Goudge |
Daughter of Silence
by Morris West | 
The Plot
by Irving Wallace | 
The Insult
by Rupert Thomson | 
The Good Companions
by J. B. Priestley | 
A Kind of Loving
by Stan Barstow | 
A Girl in Winter
by Philip Larkin | 
Ticket to Ride
by Dennis Potter |
The Big Music
by Kirsty Gunn | 
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo
by Jill Twiss | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck |
Twelve-year-old Janey and her younger brother, Jim, spend summers at a lake with their parents. Ignored for long stretches and then called upon suddenly to mix drinks or receive drunken kisses, the children huddle together in tender, compulsive closeness. Nourished only by their devotion to one another, the two fill their neglected hours exploring the lush, dangerous landscape and protecting each other from the unpredictable moods of the dark adult world that surrounds them.