The Debut
by Anita Brookner | 
Fraud
by Anita Brookner | 
Making Things Better
by Anita Brookner | 
Lewis Percy
by Anita Brookner | 
A Friend from England
by Anita Brookner | 
Altered States
by Anita Brookner | 
A Private View
by Anita Brookner | 
Undue Influence
by Anita Brookner | 
The Rules of Engagement
by Anita Brookner | 
Incidents in the Rue Laugier
by Anita Brookner | 
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 | 
Out Stealing Horses
by Per Petterson | 
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by David Eggers | 
2666
by Roberto Bolano | 
Buying the Farm
by Kimberly Conn | 
Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
Harbor of the Heart
by Katherine Spencer |
In A Closed Eye, Anita Brookner explores, with compassionate insight and stylistic brilliance, the self-inflicted paradoxes in the life of Harriet Lytton, a woman whose powers of submissiveness and self-denial are suddenly tested by the dizzying prospect of sexual awakening. In Harriers gallant struggle with the single great temptation that comes her way, Brookner creates a hauntingly flawed heroine and a study in the evasions and disappointments that make up all our lives.