The World According to Garp
by John Irving | 
The Fourth Hand
by John Irving | 
A Widow for One Year
by John Irving | 
Something Happened
by Joseph Heller | 
The Water-Method Man
by John Irving | 
The Broom of the System
by David Foster Wallace | 
A Man in Full
by Tom Wolfe | 
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates | 
Until I Find You
by John Irving | 
Housekeeping
by Marilynne Robinson | 
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler | 
Postcards
by Annie Proulx | 
The Sportswriter
by Richard Ford | 
The Thanatos Syndrome
by Walker Percy | 
The Mezzanine
by Nicholson Baker | 
Closing Time
by Joseph Heller | 
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe | 
Jesus' Son
by Denis Johnson | 
Money
by Martin Amis | 
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
by Fay Weldon |
"The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels." So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they "dream on" in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel by the remarkable author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and Last Night in Twisted River.