Note: I haven’t finished all of these, obviously. If you’ve ever read any of these books or are familiar with the authors, feel free to speak up in the comments.
Don DeLillo: Underworld.
Flannery O’Connor: Wise Blood (novella).
Khaled Hosseini: A Thousand Splendid Suns.
William Faulkner: The Bear (novella); Go Down, Moses; The Sound and the Fury.
David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon (nonfiction).
John Irving: Cider House Rules.
Nikolai Gogol: Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends; Leaving the Theater (after the Staging of a New Comedy) (play); The Gambler; Marriage (play); The Government Inspector (play).
Theodore Dreiser: An American Tragedy.
Joseph Heller: We Bombed in New Haven (play).
John M. Maclean: Fire on the Mountain (nonfiction).
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Neal Stephenson: Termination Shock.
Kate Chopin: The Awakening.
Maggie O’Farrell: Hamnet.
Collette: The Pure and the Impure.
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things.
Raymond Queneau: Zazie.
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