1996 by Gloria Naylor

Beyond the Mountain by Elizabeth Arthur

Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

Erasure by Percival L. Everett

Fortunate Son by Walter Mosley

The Last Station by Jay Parini

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley

The Medusa Frequency by Russell Hoban

Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Messiah of Stockholm by Cynthia Ozick

My Favorite War by Christopher John Farley (Boston Book Review)

The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble

Severance by Robert Olen Butler

Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie

Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman

Snow by Orhan Pamuk

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

A Theft by Saul Bellow

Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove

The Witch of Exmoor by Margaret Drabble (Boston Book Review)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe