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"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver

"Trust" by Hernan Diaz

"The Netanyahus" by Joshua Cohen

"The Night Watchman" by Louise Erdrich

"The Nickel Boys" by Coleson Whitehead

"The Overstory" by Richard Powers

"Less" by Andrew Sean Greer

"The Underground Railroad" by Coleson Whitehead

"The Sympathizer" by Thanh Nguyen

"All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

"The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt

"The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson

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"A Visit from the Goon Squad" by Jennifer Egan

"Tinkers" by Paul Harding

"Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout

"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

"March" by Geraldine Brooks

"Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson

"The Known World" by Edward P. Jones

"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Empire Falls" by Richard Russo

"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" by Michael Chabon

"Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham

"American Pastoral" by Philip Roth

"Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer" by Steven Millhauser

"Independence Day" by Richard Ford

"The Stone Diaries" by Carol Shields

"The Shipping News" by E. Annie Proulx

"A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" by Robert Olen Butler

"A Thousand Acres" by Jane Smiley

"Rabbit At Rest" by John Updike

"The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love" by Oscar Hijuelos

"Breathing Lessons" by Anne Tyler

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

"A Summons to Memphis" by Peter Taylor

"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry

"Foreign Affairs" by Alison Lurie

"Ironweed" by William Kennedy

"The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

"Rabbit Is Rich" by John Updike

"A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

"Executioner's Song" by Norman Mailer

"The Stories of John Cheever" by John Cheever

"Elbow Room" by James Alan McPherson

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"Humboldt's Gift" by Saul Bellow

"The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara

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"The Optimist's Daughter" by Eudora Welty

"Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner

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"Collected Stories" by Jean Stafford

"House Made of Dawn" by N. Scott Momaday

"The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron

"The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud

"The Collected Stories of Katherine Ann Porter" by Katherine Anne Porter

“The Keepers of the House” by Shirley Grau.

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"The Reivers" by William Faulkner

"The Edge of Sadness" by Edwin O'Connor

"To Kill A Mockingbird" by Allen Drury

"Advise and Consent" by Allen Drury

"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" by Robert Lewis Taylor

"A Death In The Family" by James Agee

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"Andersonville" by MacKinlay Kantor

"A Fable" by William Faulkner

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"The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

"The Caine Mutiny" by Herman Wouk

"The Town" by Conrad Richter

"The Way West" by A. B. Guthrie

"Guard of Honor" by James Gould Cozzens

"Tales of the South Pacific" by James A. Michener