Sailor Song
by Ken Kesey | 
Dark Angel
by Sally Beauman | 
Pascali's Island
by Barry Unsworth | 
Splitting
by Fay Weldon | 
Love for Lydia
by H. E. Bates |
The Motel Life
by Willy Vlautin | 
The Finishing School
by Muriel Spark | 
The Parasites
by Daphne Du Maurier | 
Athena
by John Banville | 
To the Wedding
by John Berger | 
A Ripple from the Storm
by Doris Lessing | 
Starcarbon
by Ellen Gilchrist | 
The Neon Bible
by John Kennedy Toole | 
Panama
by Thomas McGuane | 
A Friend from England
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 |
Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart."