The Commissariat of Enlightenment
by Ken Kalfus | 
Memoirs of a Muse
by Lara Vapnyar | 
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 Affairs of Others
by Amy Grace Loyd | 
The First Circle
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 
The Kitchen Boy
by Robert Alexander | 
Russka
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
Dancer
by Colum McCann | 
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
by Darragh McKeon |
As Soviet Communism self-destructs, Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who spent years in the gulag for spying and who stayed in the Soviet Union after his release, remembers the tribulations of his past and faces a shattering choice. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999. Booker Prize shortlist. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.