The Ordinary Seaman
by Francisco Goldman | 
Darconville's Cat
by Alexander Theroux | 
Mystical Paths
by Susan Howatch | 
The Needle's Eye
by Margaret Drabble | 
Worst Fears
by Fay Weldon | 
Imaginary Friends
by Alison Lurie | 
Theophilus North
by Thornton Wilder |
How Far Can You Go?
by David Lodge | 
The Bottle Factory Outing
by Beryl Bainbridge | 
Letters
by John Barth | 
The Carpetbaggers
by Harold Robbins | 
Traveling Sprinkler
by Nicholson Baker | 
A Summer Bird-Cage
by Margaret Drabble | 
Providence
by Anita Brookner | 
American Appetites
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
A Hole in Texas
by Herman Wouk | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery | 
The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes |
The publication of 'Aurora Dawn' in 1947 immediately established Herman Wouk as a novelist of exceptional literary and historical significance. Today, Aurora Dawn's themes have grown still more relevant and, in the manner of all great fiction, its characters and ironies have only been sharpened by the passage of time. Wouk's raucous satire of Manhattan's high-power elite recounts the adventures of one Andrew Reale as he struggles toward fame and fortune in the early days of radio. On the quest for wealth and prestige, ambitious young Andrew finds himself face-to-face with his own devil's bargain: forced to choose between soul and salary, true love and a strategic romance, Wouk's riotous, endearing hero learns a timeless lesson about the high cost of success in America's most extravagant metropolis.