Harryette Mullen - Sleeping With the Dictionary

Gloria Naylor - The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories

The stories of seven Black women living in an urban ghetto evoke the energy, brutality, compassion, and desolation of modern Black America.

Natalie Angier - Woman: An Intimate Geography

At some point midway through my pregnancy, when I knew I was carrying a daughter, I began to think of myself as standing in a room with two facing mirrors, so that looking into one mirror you see the ...

Tom Wolfe - Man in Full: A Novel

Tom Wolfe's novel stars a college football star turned millionaire businessman who, in late middle age, finds himself with a troublesome young wife and a mountain of debt. The cast includes Conrad ...

Alice McDermott - Charming Billy

When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the ...

Joseph J. Ellis - American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

In American Sphinx, Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who ...

William Steig - Doctor De Soto (Spanish)

Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - The Collaborator: The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach

Relates the story of the only French writer to be executed for treason during World War II, from his rise during the 1930s to his trial and death in front of a firing squad.

Philip Roth - Goodbye, Columbus

Winner of the National Book AwardRoths award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patimkin, and their relationship which tests the boundaries of suspicion, social class, and love--instantly ...

Joyce Carol Oates - Them

Winner of the National Book Award and in print for more than thirty years, < b > them < /b > ranks as one of the most masterly portraits of postwar America ever written by a novelist. Including ...