| A. Auster, Paul |
The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, the Locked Room |
0140131558 |
| B. Bunyan, John |
The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That Which is to Come [1678] |
0192803611 |
| C. Crowley, John |
The Translator [Lithe and lyrical.] |
0380978628 |
| D. Duncan, Andy |
Beluthahatchie and other Stories [Outstanding. An immense talent.] |
0965590119 |
| E. Edgerton, Clyde |
The Floatplane Notebooks [Clyde is so sly. This is my favorite so far. You might could call it 'As I Lay Flying'.] |
0345359844 |
| F. Fowler, Karen Joy |
Sarah Canary [Mesmerizing.] |
0345416449 |
| G. Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
Love in the Time of Cholera |
0394561619 |
| H. Hagen, George |
The Laments |
1400062217 |
| I. Irving, John |
The World According to Garp |
0679603069 |
| J. Jin, Xuefei 'Ha' |
Waiting [recommended by KTLV] |
0375406530 |
| K. Kennedy, A.L. |
Indelible Acts: Stories |
1400040558 |
| L. Lahiri, Jhumpa |
Interpreter of Maladies [A consummate storyteller.] |
0006551793 |
| M. Moody, Rick |
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven : A Novella and Stories |
0446672408 |
| N. Nabokov, Vladimir |
Bend Sinister |
0679727272 |
| O. Oz, Amos |
Elsewhere, Perhaps [recommended by wordnerdy] |
0151837465 |
| P. Packer, Z.Z. |
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories [Honest and radiant] |
1573222348 |
| Q. Qiu, Xiaolong |
Death of a Red Heroine [A poetic Shanghai police procedural.] |
1569471932 |
| R. Rocco, Fiammetta |
The Miraculous Fever-Tree : Malaria and the Quest for a Cure That Changed the World |
0060199512 |
| S. Spence, June |
Change Baby |
1573222860 |
| T. Tolstoy, Leo |
Anna Karenina [If I had a dollar for every time someone blushed in this book, I could fly to Moscow.] |
0143035002 |
| U. Udall, Brady |
Letting Loose the Hounds: Stories |
039304033X |
| V. Verga, Giovanni |
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories [trans. by G.H. McWilliam] |
0140447415 |
| W. Willett, Jincy |
Jenny and the Jaws of Life : Short Stories |
0312306180 |
| X. Xu, Meihong & Engelmann, Larry |
Daughter of China : A True Story of Love and Betrayal |
0471356735 |
| Y. York, Lynn |
The Piano Teacher |
0452284775 |
| Z. Zuravleff, Mary Kay |
The Frequency of Souls |
0374158517 |
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| A. Allende, Isabel |
Daughter of Fortune |
006019491X |
| B. Betts, Doris |
Souls Raised from the Dead [Very nice; we might call this "The Narcissist's Daughter" for its similarities to Miss Eudora's tale.] |
0684844753 |
| C. Chappell, Fred |
I Am One of You Forever [Recommended by Clyde Edgerton. More poets should write novels.] |
0807114103 |
| D. Dufresne, John |
The Way That Water Enters Stone: Stories |
0452277310 |
| E. Eco, Umberto |
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana (La Misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana) [The semiotician at play; translated by Geoffrey Brock] |
0151011400 |
| F. Fowler, Karen Joy |
Sister Noon [Dreamlike, illusory, sinister, beguiling.] |
0399147500 |
| G. Gurganus, Allan |
White People: Stories and Novellas |
080410851X |
| H. Helprin, Mark |
Winter’s Tale [A wordnerdy recommendation] |
0156001942 |
| I. Ishiguro, Kazuo |
The Remains of the Day |
0679731725 |
| J. Jackson, Shirley |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle [1962] [recommended by Andy Duncan] |
0140071075 |
| K. Kenan, Randall |
A Visitation of Spirits |
0375703977 |
| L. Lahiri, Jhumpa |
The Namesake [A unique voice; compassionate and brutal.] |
0395927218 |
| M. Murakami, Haruki |
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
0679775439 |
| N. Naumoff, Lawrence |
Silk Hope, NC [recommended by Haven Kimmel] |
0156881624 |
| O. O’Connor, Flannery |
Everything That Rises Must Converge [collection of 9 stories] |
0374504644 |
| P. Price, Reynolds |
A Long and Happy Life |
1962 ed. |
| Q. Qian, Zhongshu |
Fortress Besieged (Wei cheng) [trans. by Jeanne Kelly & Nathan K. Mao] |
0811215520 |
| R. Rash, Ron |
Saints at the River |
0805074872 |
| S. Sciascia, Leonardo |
The Wine-Dark Sea: stories (Il mare colore del vino) [trans. by Avril Bardoni] |
0940322536 |
| T. Timpanelli, Gioia |
Sometimes the Soul : Two Novellas of Sicily ["si cunta e si recunta..."] |
0393027449 |
| U. Updike, John |
Rabbit, Run |
0394442067 |
| V. Vittorini, Elio |
Conversations in Sicily (Conversazione in Sicilia) [translated by Alane Salierno Mason, foreword by Ernest Hemingway. "One of the great unique books of our literature." --Calvino] |
0811214559 |
| W. Woolf, Virginia |
To the Lighthouse [Foreword by Eudora Welty; "the novel that once and forever opened the door of imaginative fiction for me".] |
0156907399 |
| X. Xenopoulos, Gregorios |
The Three-Sided Woman (Trimorphe gynaika) [Trans. by Barbara Kent; something of an amalgam of Daisy Miller and Peyton Place.] |
9603020222 |
| Y. Yehoshua, A.B. |
The Lover (Ha-Me'ahev) [Trans. by Philip Simpson; a wordnerdy recommendation.] |
0385121342 |
| Z. Zamyatin, Yevgeny |
We [Trans. by Gregory Zilboorg; 1920] |
0525470395 |