Aurora Dawn
by Herman Wouk | 
Family and Friends
by Anita Brookner | 
Schmidt Delivered
by Louis Begley | 
Into the Great Wide Open
by Kevin Canty | 
Eminence
by Morris West | 
The Silent Lady
by Catherine Cookson | 
Leaving Eden
by Anne LeClaire |
The Seven Minutes
by Irving Wallace | 
Brazil
by John Updike | 
A Word Child
by Iris Murdoch | 
I Am the Clay
by Chaim Potok | 
Honey for the Bears
by Anthony Burgess |
The Travelling Hornplayer
by Barbara Trapido | 
Other People
by Martin Amis | 
Passion Play
by Jerzy Kosinski | 
Marrying the Mistress
by Joanna Trollope | 
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 |
With this rollicking novel-hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity-one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction. Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. Through a turn of events as unlikely as it is inevitable, Guy finds himself compromised by scandal and romance, hounded by Hollywood, and agonizingly alone at the white-hot center of a firestorm ignited as three potent forces of American culture--politics, big science, and the media--spectacularly collide.