Romance
by Joseph Conrad | 
The Enchantment of Lily Dahl
by Siri Hustvedt | 
Tunc
by Lawrence Durrell | 
In Between Days
by Andrew Porter | 
When She Was Good
by Philip Roth | 
A New Life
by Bernard Malamud | 
Warlock
by Jim Harrison | 
Reinhart in Love
by Thomas Berger | 
Staring at the Sun
by Julian Barnes | 
Toward the End of Time
by John Updike | 
The Death of Bunny Munro
by Nick Cave | 
Before She Met Me
by Julian Barnes | 
Bread Upon the Waters
by Irwin Shaw | 
The Adventurers
by Harold Robbins | 
Out of the Shelter
by David Lodge | 
Angels
by Denis Johnson |
The Stars at Noon
by Denis Johnson | 
Take Me With You
by Catherine Ryan Hyde | 
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo |
Anne of Windy Poplars
by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
Leonard English, a sad and intense young man recovering from a suicide attempt, comes to Provincetown on Cape Cod to take a job as a disc jockey-cum-private detective. Provincetown is a last outpost of civilization, an end of the earth, a resort town emptied by autumn, where many of those who wear skirts are not women and many of the women do not love men. On his first day there, English encounters a beautiful young woman at Mass and falls desperately in love with her, but Leanna turns out to be gay; and English's first assignment as a detective, a search for the elusive artist Gerald Twinbrook, is equally frustrating. As autumn turns to winter and Leonard's anguish mounts, his desperate quests - for Twinbrook, for love, for redemption - take on an increasingly apocalyptic coloring.