The Enchanter
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
King, Queen, Knave
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Glory
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Bend Sinister
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Laughter in the Dark
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Despair
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Gift
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Mary
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Pnin
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
The Eye
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Clock Without Hands
by Carson McCullers | 
Look at the Harlequins!
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Invitation to a Beheading
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Carpenter's Gothic
by William Gaddis | 
The Defense
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Pale Fire
by Vladimir Nabokov | 
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol | 
Cancer Ward
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." Martin Amis