The Wicked Pavilion
by Dawn Powell | 
My Home Is Far Away
by Dawn Powell | 
Turn, Magic Wheel
by Dawn Powell | 
Angels on Toast
by Dawn Powell | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo | 
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson | 
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by David Eggers | 
2666
by Roberto Bolano | 
Buying the Farm
by Kimberly Conn | 
Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Harbor of the Heart
by Katherine Spencer | 
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Everyman
by Philip Roth | 
The Book of Ruth
by Jane Hamilton | 
South of Broad
by Pat Conroy | 
Old School
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Big Free
by Martha B. Boone |
Two ordinary people with pretensions to greatness form a friendship based on reinforcing each other's airs of superiority