Dad
by William Wharton | 
Kleinzeit
by Russell Hoban | 
Free Fall
by William Golding | 
Dalva
by Jim Harrison | 
Birdy
by William Wharton | 
Reader's Block
by David Markson | 
A Landing on the Sun
by Michael Frayn | 
The New Confessions
by William Boyd | 
Providence
by Anita Brookner | 
American Appetites
by Joyce Carol Oates |
I Want it Now
by Kingsley Amis | 
The Carpetbaggers
by Harold Robbins | 
The Public Image
by Muriel Spark | 
Imaginary Friends
by Alison Lurie | 
Theophilus North
by Thornton Wilder | 
The Narrow Corner
by W. Somerset Maugham |
Catalina
by W. Somerset Maugham | 
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa | 
Augustus
by John Williams | 
Romola
by George Eliot |
Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance.