Carpenter's Gothic
by William Gaddis | 
The Anatomy Lesson
by Philip Roth | 
All That Is
by James Salter | 
The Dean's December
by Saul Bellow | 
Nexus
by Henry Miller | 
Reflections in a Golden Eye
by Carson McCullers | 
The Counterlife
by Philip Roth | 
Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter | 
Scumbler
by William Wharton | 
Zuckerman Unbound
by Philip Roth | 
John's Wife
by Robert Coover | 
The Financier
by Theodore Dreiser | 
Point Omega
by Don DeLillo | 
As Max Saw It
by Louis Begley | 
Memories of the Ford Administration
by John Updike | 
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck | 
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens | 
Room
by Emma Donoghue | 
Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | 
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner |
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of "response and responsibility--of man toward his own livingness."