Going to the Dogs
by Erich Kastner | 
The Rat
by Gunter Grass | 
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Boll | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger | 
The Idiot
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens | 
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison | 
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers | 
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy | 
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens | 
Embers
by Sandor Marai | 
Demons
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy | 
The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe | 
Pedro Paramo
by Juan Rulfo | 
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding | 
To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway |
An immortal fisherman catches an immortal talking fish in the Stone Age, and they live eternally until modern times in Germany, bound by the man's insatiable pregnant wife and entanglements with various female cooks. The narrating fisherman uses his predicament to comment on gender and nutrition in society, as well as gloat over the fish's second capture and subsequent trial by women for his historical role in subjugating women.