A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton | 
When Madeline Was Young
by Jane Hamilton | 
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb | 
When I Found You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith | 
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen | 
Saturday
by Ian McEwan | 
House of Sand and Fog
by Andre Dubus III | 
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley | 
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan | 
Little Children
by Tom Perrotta | 
Digging to America
by Anne Tyler | 
One True Thing
by Anna Quindlen | 
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan | 
The Shadow Girl
by Misty Mount | 
The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster | 
Pay It Forward
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler | 
A Patchwork Planet
by Anne Tyler | 
Amy and Isabelle
by Elizabeth Strout |
Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence from which the author creates a stunning testament to the human capacity for mercy, compassion and love. From the Trade Paperback edition.