East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger | 
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens | 
Stoner
by John Williams | 
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers | 
White Noise
by Don DeLillo | 
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy | 
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens | 
Embers
by Sandor Marai | 
Sometimes a Great Notion
by Ken Kesey |
The Tunnel
by Ernesto Sabato | 
Suttree
by Cormac McCarthy | 
Barren Lives
by Graciliano Ramos |
The Life Before Us
by Romain Gary |
Against Nature
by Joris-Karl Huysmans |
They Were Sisters
by Dorothy Whipple | 
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry Fielding | 
To Have and Have Not
by Ernest Hemingway | 
The Easter Parade
by Richard Yates |
A young woman is contacted by her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor's jail by visiting an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money. This novel shows how the demands of her family force Else into the realization that everything has a price and morality has a most brittle veneer.