John UpdikeRabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school...

John Grisham   Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a "camp," home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals--drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street...

Roddy DoyleBy the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, winner of the 1993 Booker Prize, this is the life history of Paula Spencer - her contented childhood, her romance...

Tessa Hadley'Few writers give me such consistent pleasure' Zadie SmithFour siblings meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. But under the idyllic surface lie...

Michael Ondaatje   With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World...

Helen ZahaviA dark and brilliant novel about a woman who decides not to be a victim anymore. She takes her life and the law into her own hands, exacting her...

Richard FlanaganYoung and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding...

Maurice S. FriedmanProblematic Rebel: Melville, Dostoievsky, Kafka, Camus

Bernard MalamudIn A New Life, Bernard Malamud--generally thought of as a distinctly New York writer--took on the American myth of the West as a place of personal reinvention.When Sy Levin,...

Thomas MannFelix Krull was a young and good-looking lad who created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth and to allow him to pursue a...

John Irving   'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a...

William BlakeSongs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of ThelA DIVINE IMAGECruelty has a human heart,And Jealousy a human face;Terror the human form divine,And Secresy the human dress.The...