A Widow for One Year
by John Irving | 
Closing Time
by Joseph Heller | 
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster | 
The Fourth Hand
by John Irving | 
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller | 
The 158-Pound Marriage
by John Irving | 
Love in the Ruins
by Walker Percy | 
The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy | 
Ravelstein
by Saul Bellow | 
Good as Gold
by Joseph Heller | 
In the Beauty of the Lilies
by John Updike | 
Oracle Night
by Paul Auster | 
Paradise News
by David Lodge | 
I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth | 
Home Truths
by David Lodge | 
Man in the Dark
by Paul Auster | 
The World According to Garp
by John Irving | 
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving | 
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers | 
Wonder Boys
by Michael Chabon |
Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. The Water-Method Man is a work of cosummate artistry and comic invention, bizarre imagery and sharp social and psychological observation.