1. Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie, 2006
2. Explorers of the New Century, Magnus Mills , 2005
3. The Amateur Marriage, Anne Tyler, 2004
4. What I Loved, Siri Hustvedt, 2003
5. Kelly and Victor, Niall Griffiths, 2002
6. The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, 2001
7. Mr Phillips, John Lancaster, 2000
8. Morning, Noon and Night [monolog], Spalding Gray, 1999
9. Cloudsplitter, Russell Banks, 1998
10. The Ordinary Seaman, Francisco Goldman, 1997
11. The Night in Question [stories], Tobias Wolff, 1996
12. The End of the Story, Lydia Davis, 1995
13. American Tabloid, James Ellroy, 1995
14. The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro, 1995
15. Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light, Ivan Klima, 1994
16. One Sweet Quarrel, Deirdre McNamer, 1994
17. The Windup-Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami, 1994
18. Felicia’s Journey, William Trevor, 1994
19. Pugilist at Rest [stories], Thom Jones, 1993
20. Iona Moon, Melanie Rae Thon, 1993
21. At Weddings and Wakes, Alice McDermott, 1992
22. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates, 1992
23. Possession, A. S. Byatt, 1991
24. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, Douglas Coupland, 1991
25. The Coast of Chicago [stories], Stuart Dybek, 1990

      
26. The God of Nightmares, Paula Fox, 1990
27. Nebraska [stories], Ron Hansen, 1989
28. August Heat, Beth Lordan, 1989
29. The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker, 1988
30. Mona Lisa Overdrive, William Gibson, 1988
31. The Beautiful Room Is Empty, Edmund White, 1988
32. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris, 1987
33. Rock Springs [stories], Richard Ford, 1987
34. You Must Remember This, Joyce Carol Oates, 1987
35. Trust Me [stories], John Updike, 1987
36. The Blind Corral, Ralph Beer, 1986
37. Fools Crow, James Welch, 1986
38. The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes, 1985
39. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985
40. The Cider House Rules, John Irving, 1985
41. The Lover, Marguerite Duras, 1984
42. Love Medicine, Louise Erdrich, 1984
43. A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines, 1983
44. Glengarry Glen Ross [play], David Mamet, 1983
45. In Shelley’s Leg, Sara Vogan, 1981
46. Aberration of Starlight, Gilbert Sorrentino, 1980
47. Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick, 1979
48. Endless Love, Scott Spencer, 1979
49. The Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison, 1977
50. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins, 1976

51. Norma Jean, The Termite Queen, Sheila Ballantyne, 1975
52. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974
53. Dog Soldiers, Robert Stone, 1974
54. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, John Godey, 1973
55. Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, 1973
56. The Book of Blam, Aleksandar Tisma, 1972
57. The Book of Daniel, E. L. Doctorow, 1971
58. Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner, 1971
59. Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion, 1970
60. Fat City, Leonard Gardner, 1969
61. The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop., Robert Coover, 1968
62. A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley, 1968
63. Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan, 1967
64. Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar, 1966
65. Cosmicomics, Italo Calvino, 1965
66. The Magus, John Fowles, 1965
67. The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon, 1965
68. Labyrinths [stories], Jorge Luis Borges, 1964
69. The Girls of Slender Means, Muriel Spark, 1963
70. Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., 1963
71. Eleven Kinds of Loneliness [stories], Richard Yates, 1962
72. V, Thomas Pynchon, 1961
73. The Sot-Weed Factor, John Barth, 1960
74. Zazie in the Metro, Raymond Queneau, 1959
75. Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac, 1958

76. A Death in the Family, James Agee, 1957
77. The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy, 1955
78. The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow, 1953
79. The Catcher in the Rye, J, D. Salinger, 1951
80. Collected Stories of William Faulkner [stories], William Faulkner, 1950
81. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene, 1948
82. Time Will Darken It, William Maxwell, 1948
83. The Plague, Albert Camus, 1947
84. The Big Sky, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., 1947
85. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren, 1946
86. Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, 1945
87. Winter Wheat, Mildred Walker, 1944
88. The Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene, 1940
89. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene, 1940
90. The Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller, 1939
91. At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien, 1939
92. The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939
93. Absalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner, 1936
94. The Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller, 1934
95. Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara, 1934
96. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, 1925
97. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster, 1924
98. The Awakening, Kate Chopin, 1899
99. New Grub Street, George Gissing, 1891
100. Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville, 1853