A Prayer For Owen Meany
by John Irving | 
A Widow for One Year
by John Irving | 
Underworld
by Don DeLillo | 
Rabbit Redux
by John Updike | 
Rabbit, Run
by John Updike | 
Sabbath's Theater
by Philip Roth | 
Giles Goat-Boy
by John Barth | 
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson | 
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving | 
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford | 
The Apothecary's Daughter
by Julie Klassen | 
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe | 
The Fourth Hand
by John Irving | 
The Crimson Petal and the White
by Michel Faber | 
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh
by Michael Chabon | 
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen | 
The MacKinnon's Bride
by Tanya Anne Crosby | 
Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace | 
The Wild One
by Danelle Harmon | 
Falling Angels
by Tracy Chevalier |
Raised from birth in the orphanage at St. Cloud's, Maine, Homer Wells has become the protege of Dr. Wilbur Larch, its physician and director. There Dr. Larch cares for the troubled mothers who seek his help, either by delivering and taking in their unwanted babies or by performing illegal abortions. Meticulously trained by Dr. Larch, Homer assists in the former, but draws the line at the latter. Then a young man brings his beautiful fiancee to Dr. Larch for an abortion, and everything about the couple beckons Homer to the wide world outside the orphanage ...