A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
by Betty Smith | 
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck | 
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro | 
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens | 
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh | 
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens | 
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne | 
Angle of Repose
by Wallace Stegner | 
Ragtime
by E. L. Doctorow | 
Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns | 
Silas Marner
by George Eliot | 
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys | 
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder | 
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn | 
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt | 
Montana 1948
by Larry Watson | 
The Big Rock Candy Mountain
by Wallace Stegner | 
Giants in the Earth
by O. E. Rolvaag | 
Evelina
by Frances Burney | 
The General in His Labyrinth
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
On a wintry morning at the close of 1690- the sun shining faint and red through a light fog- there was a great noise of baying dogs- loud voices- and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall.' (Excerpt)