Room At The Top
by John Braine | 
Angel of Light
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Kingsblood Royal
by Sinclair Lewis | 
Vital Parts
by Thomas Berger | 
The Origin of the Brunists
by Robert Coover | 
Undue Influence
by Anita Brookner | 
The Picturegoers
by David Lodge | 
Climbers
by M. John Harrison | 
Where the Sea Used to Be
by Rick Bass | 
Return to Peyton Place
by Grace Metalious | 
John Dollar
by Marianne Wiggins | 
Legs
by William Kennedy | 
The Name of the World
by Denis Johnson | 
Strong Medicine
by Arthur Hailey | 
The Tattooed Girl
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth | 
The Tidewater Tales
by John Barth | 
Letters
by John Barth | 
The End of the Road
by John Barth | 
Sabbatical
by John Barth |
The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth's first two novels. Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives. Both concern strange, consuming love triangles and the destructive effect of an overactive intellect on the emotions. Separately they give two very different views of a universal human drama.