2007, when I remembered. Features Amazon links.

Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Joanne Harris, Sleep Pale Sister

Emily Maguire, Taming the Beast

Nick Hornsby, High Fidelity

Peter Nadas, A Book of Memories

John Knowles, A Separate Peace

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Susan Driscoll, Get Published!

Claire Messud, The Emperor’s Children

Jean Paul Sartre, What is Literature? And Other Essays

Laurence Perrine, Sound and Sense

Nell Freudenberger, The Dissident

Chris Baty, No Plot? No Problem!

J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals

Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls

Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel

Jeanette Walls, The Glass Castle

Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point

Lisa Glatt, The Apple’s Bruise

Lisa Glatt, A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That

John Updike, Toward the End of Time

Peter Abrahams, End of Story

Justin Cartwright, The Promise of Happiness

Jack Driscoll, Stardog

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

David Freeman, It’s All True

David Flusfeder, The Gift

Maria Flook, Lux

Donna Tartt, The Little Friend

Jasen Emmons, Cowboy Angst

Sarah Dunant, The Birth of Venus

Carol Snow, Getting Warmer

Andrea Portes, Hick

Sarah Salway, Tell Me Everything

Ali Smith, The Accidental

Pauline Reage, The Story of O

Isaac Asimov, Nightfall

John Dixon, A Map of the Dark

Linda Dorrell, Face to Face

Sarah Dunant, In the Company of the Courtesan

Kevin Brockmeier, The Truth About Celia

Bonnie Burnard, A Good House

Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad