Ben, in the World
by Doris Lessing | 
Players
by Don DeLillo | 
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
by J. P. Donleavy | 
The Blood of the Lamb
by Peter De Vries | 
The Last Novel
by David Markson |
Children of Light
by Robert Stone | 
A World to Win
by Upton Sinclair | 
Angel Pavement
by J. B. Priestley | 
Prisoner's Dilemma
by Richard Powers | 
The Clowns of God
by Morris West | 
Friends and Relations
by Elizabeth Bowen |
Aspects of Love
by David Garnett | 
Trail of Secrets
by Eileen Goudge | 
Kate Vaiden
by Reynolds Price | 
Our Ecstatic Days
by Steve Erickson | 
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 |
In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the meaning of his disastrous brush with the son of God. She reveals that she, too, has been touched by the son of a god, a very different son, not quite human, born of her own body. He dwells with her as a constant reminder of the betrayal of her mystical and erotic union with the divine, her punishment, and perhaps her redemption.