Resources - BRLS

Author	Title	# of Copies
Achebe, Chinua	Anthills of the Savannah	15
	A fictional account of conflict in modern Africa.
Achebe, Chinua	Things Fall Apart	15
	Simple story of a strong man whose life is dominated by fear and anger.
Adams, Alice	Superior Women	15
	The lives of five young women, from the time they first meet at Radcliffe in 1943, through the next four decades.
Aeschylus	Prometheus Bound**	10
	A new translation of the ancient story of this titanic and tragic figure.
Alvarez, Julia	How the Garcia Girls lost their accents**	10
	Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents all in their journey toward adulthood. .
Alvarez, Julia	In the time of butterflies**	11
	This is a tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship.
Aristophanes	Lysistrata**	10
	Great anti-war drama, with comedic overtones, glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction.
Austen, Jane	Persuasion	10
	Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth met and separated years before. Their reunion forces a recognition of the false values that drove them apart.
Angelou, Maya	Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry Like Christmas	1
	Angelou’s autobiographical account of her show business career and personal relationships.
Baldwin, James	Giovanni’s Room**	13
	Novel published in 1956, about the conflict in the sexual identity of a young expatriate American in Paris.
Baldwin, James	Go Tell It on the Mountain	14
	From the rural South to the northern ghetto, this novel traces two generations of a black family as they move through changing times and circumstances.
Balzac, Honore de	Pere Goriot	15
	A study of paternal love, greed, envy, and despair; a French version of King Lear set in Paris in 1834.
Banks, Russell	The Sweet Hereafter	23
	A schoolbus accident kills fourteen of the children of a small town in New York; this novel explores the community’s response to this incredible loss.
Bausch, Richard	Violence	16
	A single act of violence has an explosive effect on the lives of a young married couple, but is redeemed by the force of love.
Bellow, Saul	Humboldt’s Gift	17
	Charlie Citrine has failed to live up to his potential, until Humboldt’s gift arrives: a mocking gift from the grave, that sends Charlie groping towards redemption. by a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Bowen, Elizabeth	Death of the Heart**	7
	The Death of the Heart, a story of adolescent love and the betrayal of innocence, is perhaps Bowen's best-known book.
Brown, Ritamae	Rubyfruit Jungle	15
	A novel about growing up lesbian among the poorer people of the American South.
Brown, Rosellen	Civil Wars**	7
	Deals with one of the greatest social issues of contemporary life: the emotions of a Southern family attempting to cope with the public and domestic repercussions of integration.
Bunyan, John	The Pilgrim’s Progress**
	A book that has crossed most of the barriers of time, race, and culture, it remains the supreme classic of the English Puritan tradition.
Burgess, Anthony	Clockwork Orange	16
	A novel that asks the question "Is it better to do bad things as a free person than not to do them as the result of conditioning?"
Campbell, Joseph	Myths to live by	8
	Campbell, the author of The Masks of God shares his ideas and speculations on our universal myths.
Camus, Albert	The Fall**	10
	A novel of the conscience of modern man in the face of evil.
Carroll, James	An American Requiem**	15
	God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us. The story of one family - and many families and how they were affected by the war in Vietnam.
Carver, Raymond	Cathedral	10
	Twentieth-century American short stories.
Cather, Willa	My Antonia	19
	A fictional chronicle of the lives of Czech-American frontier women in nineteenth-century Nebraska.
Cheever, John	The Wapshot Scandal	10
	Satirical chronicle of the rise and fall of a New England family.
Chopin, Kate	The Awakening	13
	Nineteenth-century American feminist short stories.
Clemens, Samuel	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn**	10
Collins, Wilkie	Woman in white**	10
	Secrets, mistaken identities, surprise revelations, amnesia, locked rooms and locked asylums, and an unorthodox villain made this mystery thriller an instant success when it first appeared in 1860.
Conde, Maryse	Tree of Life**	15
	This tale traces one Guadeloupe family’s rise from poverty through riches through several generations.
Conrad, Joseph	The Secret Agent**	15
	A chilling tale of espionage, fanaticism, and domestic violence in early twentieth-century London.
Davies, Robertson	Fifth Business	14
	Three men who grew up in a small Canadian town talk about their youth and its impact on them as adults.
Davies, Robertson	What’s Bred in the Bone	11
	The Lyre of Orpheus	1
	The second and third volumes of The Cornish Trilogy. Frank Conroy becomes a spy in World War II; when he dies, he leaves a strange bequest to a small college in Toronto; later, members of the foundation he has set up fund the completion of an opera.
DeBerniers, Louis	Corelli’s Mandolin**	7
	The story of a timeless Greek island that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history, when the Italian army invades, during World War II.
DeLillo, Don	Underworld**	10
	This novel is history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture.
Dickens, Charles	Hard Times	16
	Labor exploitation in nineteenth-century England.
Dickens, Charles	A Tale of Two Cities**	15
	Set in London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution, this novel sees the causes and effects of that great social upheaval from the points of view of those affected by it.
Didion, Joan	Play It As It Lays	15
	The story of Maria Wyeth, a young woman of the Seventies, an emotional drifter who has become anesthetized against pain and pleasure, and is touched only by her neurally damaged daughter and the child she has adopted.
Dineson, Isak	Out of Africa	15
	At the age of twenty-seven, the author went to Africa to marry her cousin. for the next seventeen years she managed their four thousand-acre coffee plantation, even after they separated. she recorded her experiences in this book.
Doctorow, E. L.	Book of Daniel**	15
	Doctorow's stunning novel about the children of famous"spies".
Doerr, Harriet	Stones for Ibarra**	15
	Two Americans, Richard and Sara Everton, are the only foreigners in Ibarra. They live among people who both respect and misunderstand them, and, the villagers--at first enigmas come to teach them much about life and the relentless tide of fate.
Drabble, Margaret	Realms of Gold	11
	Contemporary love stories.
Dunham, Katherine	A Touch of Innocence	15
	The autobiography of Katherine Dunham, an African-American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist.
Duras, Marguerite	The Lover	10
	A fifteen-year-old French girl falls in love with an older Asian man in Indochina.
Eliot, George	The Mill on the Floss**	10
	The best known and the most autobiographical of George Eliot's novels.
Erdrich, Louise	Tracks**	15
	A novel which evokes both the deep spirituality and the ordinary humanity of the author’s Indian heritage.
Faulkner, William	The Sound and the Fury**	10
	This novel discloses unguessed possibilities of provincial life in early twentieth-century Mississippi without the loss of universality.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott	Tender is the night	15
	A story of Americans on the French Riviera in the 1930s is a portrait of psychological disintegration as a wealthy couple supports friends andhangers-on financially and emotionally at the cost of their own stability.
Fitzgerald, Penelope	Gate of angels	11
	A humorous story of love and coincidence is set in Edwardian England
Flaubert, Gustave	Madame Bovary	11
	Emma, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband, Charles, to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair.
Ford, Ford Madox	The Good Soldier	27
	Americans among the leisure classes at a turn-of-the-century German spa.
Forster, E. M	Howard’s End**	15
	A vibrant portrait of Edwardian England and the characters who inhabit the wonderful old country house called Howard’s End.
Forster, E. M.	The Longest Journey**	15
	A tragicomedy of manners, personalities, and world views, in which the author explores the idea of England later developed in Howard’s End.
Forster, E. M	A Passage to India	18
	Personal conflicts between the rulers and the ruled in British India
Fuentes, Carlos	The Old Gringo	11
	The author evokes the Mexico of 1914: the Mexico of Pancho Villa. Through the characters, the American writer Ambrose Bierce and Tomas Arroyo, one of Villa=s Generals, the incompatibility of the United States and its southern neighbor (and paradoxically, their intimacy) is brought startlingly to life.
Gage, Nicholas	Eleni**	15
	This non-fiction work takes the reader into the heart of a Greek village destroyed in the name of ideals, during the civil war of 1948, and into the soul of a truly heroic woman who risked, and eventually lost, her life so that her three children could be free.
Gaines, Ernest J.	A Lesson Before Dying**	15
	In a small Cajun community, a young black man, condemned to die, is visited by a teacher from the plantation school. Together they forge a bond and both come to understand the simple heroism of resisting - and defying - the expected.
Gide, Andre	Two Symphonies	15
	Two French love stories; AIsabel@ and AThe Pastoral Symphony@.
Godwin, Gail	Father Melancholy’s Daughter	10
	A woman and her mentally ill clergyman father in small-town Virginia.
Godwin, Gail	A Mother and Two Daughters	13
	Two sisters and their mother in rural North Carolina.
Goncharov, Ivan	Oblomov**	7
	A tragicomedy set in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, the novel is both a powerful criticism of serfdom and a sympathetic portrait of the humdrum life of his ineffectual and slothful hero.
Gordon, Mary	Men and Angels	14
	A novel about love - the love between parents and children, friends, and men and women - and about its failure when it can't encompass the unlovable.
Graham, Katherine	Personal History**	15
	An extraordinary autobiography of the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate.
Greene, Graham	Greene, Graham	15
	Treachery is abhorrent, both to those against whom it is directed and to the authorities to whom it is reported. The first novel by one of the century’s greatest authors.
Gresham, William	Nightmare Alley	12
	This novel has become a classic of the American film noir, which starred Tyrone Power.
Hall, Radclyffe	Well of loneliness**	11
	The "Well of Loneliness" is the timeless story of a lesbian couple's struggle to be accepted by "polite" society.
Hansberry, Lorraine	Raisin in the Sun	15
	The play that forewarned of the revolution in black men and women’s consciousness - and the revolutionary upheavals in Africa - that exploded in the years after the author’s death.
Hardy, Thomas	The Mayor of Casterbridge**	15
	Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story builds into an awesome drama of guilt and revenge.
Hassler, Jon	A Green Journey**	15
	The widely praised story of three unlikely traveling companions from a small Minnesota town.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter	12
	A tale of adultery and religious hypocrisy in seventeenth-century New England.
Hemingway, Ernest	The Sun Also Rises	12
	Americans in Spain in the Twenties.
Hesse, Hermann	Siddhartha	12
	Self-fulfillment through a spiritual life (Buddhism).
Higgins, Colin	Harold and Maude	12
	He’s twenty. She’s eighty. They’re a very unusual pair of lovers.
Himes, Chester	Cotton Comes to Harlem**	15
	A black ex-con works the scam of a lifetime, but the take, $87,000, is highjacked by white gunmen. One of Himes’s hardest-hitting and most entertaining thrillers.
Hoffman, Alice	Seventh Heaven	15
	Everyday and fantastic events in a middle-class Long Island subdivisions the complacency of the Eisenhower era is succeeded by the hope of the Kennedy years.
Hurston, Zora Neale	I love myself**	10
Ishiguro, Kazuo	A Pale View of Hills	14
	A Japanese woman, now living alone in England relives scenes of Japan=s devastation in the wake of World War II as she recounts the weirdness and calamities of her own life.
Ishiguro, Kazuo	Remains of the Day	15
	An aging English butler reflects on his years of service before the Second World War and the subjects of greatness and dignity.
James, Henry	Washington Square**	15
	Set in New York during the last part of the nineteenth century, this novel is a spare and intensely moving story of divided loyalties and innocence betrayed.
James, Henry	Wings of the Dove	15
	Upper-class Americans in London and Venice.
James, Henry	Wings of the Dove	15
	Upper-class Americans in London and Venice.
Joyce, James	Dubliners**
	These stories use a scrupulous, deadpan realism to convey truths that are at once blasphemous and sacramental.
Kincaid, Jamaica	Lucy**	7
	Lucy, a teenager from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an aupair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children--the perfect American family
Kingston, Maxine Hong	Woman Warrior	16
	Anti-nostalgic memoirs of growing up as part of a Chinese-American family in California.
Kroebe, Theodore	Ishi in Two Worlds	15
	A biography of the last member of the Yahi Tribe of California.
Kundera, Milan	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	10
	A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humble, faithful lover - these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel.
Lafayette, Madame de	Princess of Cleves	19
	The first modern French novel (1678). The teenage heroine’s life is used as a parable, an illustration of the human dilemma. The author suggests that certain public events in history have causes that are rooted in psychology and in the details of human relationships, and it is those relationships that are recounted here.
Lampedusa, Giuseppe	The Leopard**	10
	Set in the 1860s, THE LEOPARD is the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution.
Lee, Harper	To Kill a Mockingbird	15
	Racism and a trial for rape in Alabama
Lermontov, Mikhail	A Hero of Our Time	14
	The Byronic adventures of a Russian army officer
Lewis, C. S.	The Screwtape Letters**
	A senior devil advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray.
Lewis, Sinclair	Dodsworth**	12
	A grand tour of Europe in a bygone era; a sharply observant evaluation of European culture and decadence versus American Acan-do@ character and naive materialism; plus a devastating portrait of a marriage falling apart combine to form a wickedly funny observation of America’s foibles.
Lurie, Alison	Foreign Affairs**	15
	A splendid comedy and a poignant love story about two American academics in London.
MacLaverty, Bernard	Lamb	16
	A Brother and his charge leave the oppressive atmosphere of the Home, to go to London where the Brother tries to bring some happiness into the boy's life.
McCauley, Stephen	The Object of My Affection	11
	Humorous stories of gay men and single women in New York City.
McCullers, Carson	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	10
	Set in a small southern town, this is a novel about innocence lost, the author’s masterpiece, written when she was twenty-three.
McCullough, David	Mornings on horseback**	15
	"Mornings on Horseback" is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.
McFarland, Dennis	School for the Blind	15
	Two people, who thought their lives were over, find themselves struggling not to be overwhelmed by new knowledge, hidden truths, and unexpected danger.
McInerney, Jay	Ransom**	17
	A story of a young American living in Japan, who tries to lose himself in an ascetic existence,and the study of Karate.
McMillan, Terry	Waiting to exhale**	15
	Four thirty-something African-American women rely on one another for love and support. McMillan's portrait of these friends, who struggle
McMurtry, Larry	The Lonesome Dove
	In this epic story of the Old West, two former Texas Rangers lead a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, experiencing many adventures along the way.	16
McMurtry, Larry	Terms of Endearment	15
	The humorous, joyous, and tragic life of Aurora Greenway, an indomitable woman who will not let age or death dim her spirit.
Mahfouz, Naguib	Midaq Alley	25
	Provides glimpses of unusual intimacy into Egypt during the Forties, a period of fast transition that is still going on today.
Mahfouz, Naguib	Palace Walk**	15
	His "masterwork" is the engrossing saga of a Muslim family in Cairo during Eqypt's occupation by British forces in the early 1900s.
Malamud, Bernard	The Assistant	15
Mann, Thomas	Death in Venice	8
	An older German man pursues, emotionally and intellectually, a handsome boy in the heady atmosphere of early twentieth-century Venice.
Markham, Beryl	West With the Night	11
	The memoirs of the famous woman pilot who had many adventures in Africa.
Marshall, Paule	Brown Girl, Brownstone	15
	A feminist account of Barbadian-Americans in Brooklyn.
Mason, Bobbie Ann	In Country	15
	A seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in a small Kentucky town.
Maugham, W. Somerset	Of Human Bondage	15
	An autobiographical novel about a handicapped orphan brought up by a Victorian clergyman. He sheds his faith as a young man, begins to study art in Paris, and finally returns to London to qualify as a doctor. the author=s masterpiece.
Mishima, Yukio	Spring Snow	15
	The traditions and conflicts of Japanese society at the turn of the century.
Moliere	Tartuffe	10
Moore, Brian	Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne	15
	The loneliness of a middle-aged, Catholic woman in Ireland.
Morrison, Toni	Beloved**	9
	In the troubled years following the Civil War, the spirit of a murdered child haunts the Ohio home of a former slave.
Morrison, Toni	The Bluest Eye**	11
	A vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child=s yearning and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Morrison, Toni	Tar Baby	5
	The story of a black model, molded by white culture, and a black man who represents everything she fears and desires.
Murdoch, Iris	The Bell	10
	Iris Murdoch combines rarefied philosophy, intellectual introspection, and a terrifically dry humor as she takes us into the minds of troubled people seeking a good and satisfying life in the midst of their religion and their culture.
Nabokov, Vladimir	Lolita	12
	The story of a nymphet who seduces a middle-aged academic.
Naipaul, U. S.	Bend in the River**	10
	A novel of an Indian man who must make a new life for himself in a recently independent African state.
Narayan, R. K.	The Guide	11
	Country life in India during the time of the British Raj.
Nicholson, Nigel	Portrait of a Marriage	10
	The story of the author’s mother (Vita Sackville-West) and father (Harold Nicholson) and their mutually supportive, but non-traditional, marriage.
O’Brien, Edna	Time and Tide	20
	An Irish woman picks up the pieces of her life, after love has gone wrong, and takes her two sons to England to raise them alone.
O’Brien, Tim	The Things They Carried**	9
	The author’s unique vision of the horror that was Vietnam.
O’Conaire, Padraic	Exile**	8
	It is about the Irish predicament of having to leave home to find any fortune to seek and, then, never returning.
O’Connor, Edwin	The Last Hurrah**	11
	One of the most entertaining novels ever written about American politics: the last of the great big-city Irish political bosses makes his final run for mayor.
O’Connor, Flannery	Wise Blood	10
	After his release from the Army at the age of twenty-two, Hazel Motes of Eastrod, Tennessee, goes to a Southern city where he falls under the spell of Asa Hawks, a blind street preacher. In his struggle to outpreach Hawks, Hazel founds his own church, and the duel is on.
Oe, Kenzaburo	Personal Matter	15
	A Japanese father tries to raise his brain-damaged son.
Olsen, Tillie	Tell Me a Riddle	13
	Twentieth-century short stories.
O’Neill, Eugene	Moon for the Misbegotten	15
	O’Neil’s last play, which carries the story of his older brother, Jamie, to its tragic conclusion.
Orwell, George	Burmese Days	15
	Racism and class conflicts in British-ruled Burma.
Ozick, Cynthia	The Puttermesser Papers**	15
	The life and times of one of the author’s most compelling fictional creations, Ruth Puttermesser, a woman of monumental learning, whose fantasies have a disconcerting tendency to come true - with disastrous consequences.
Paton, Alan	Cry, the Beloved Country	12
	A novel about Apartheid in South Africa.
Percy, Walker	The Moviegoer**	15
	A small-time stockbroker in New Orleans is dissatisfied with his life and is searching for something more important that will mark him forever. He finds it during Mardi Gras.
Proulx, E. Anni	The Shipping News	10
	This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is a vigorous, darkly comic portrait of a contemporary American family in Newfoundland.
Pym, Barbara	Excellent Woman	11
	The life and times of single women in twentieth-century England.
Quindlen, Anna	Object Lessons	15
	Irish-American and Italian-American girls come of age in the suburbs of New York City.
Racine, Jean	Iphigenia/Phaedra/Athaliah	11
Rhys, Jean	Wild Sargasso Sea	12
	Set in the West Indies in the 1830s, this is the story of the first Mrs. Rochester - the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
Rilke, Rainer Maria	Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge	15
	The journal of Brigge, a young nobleman and poet obsessed with death and with the reality that lurks behind appearances.
Rollin, Betty	Last Wish	14
	A hopelessly ill woman in her middle seventies is granted her last wish by her loving daughter: she helps her mother to commit suicide.
Rose, Phyllis	Parallel Lives	17
	Anecdotes about the relations between the sexes during the Victorian Period. Each couple contains a famous writer, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, George Eliot, and John Stuart Mill. each marriage was different, but only one was truly happy.
Roth, Henry	Call It Sleep	27
	Jewish-American boys come of age on New York City’s Lower East Side.
Sarton, May	As We Are Now**	15
	This story tells of Caroline Spencer, a 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who has suffered a heart attack and has been deposited by relatives in an old people's home.
Shakespeare, William	King Lear**	10
	An eighty-one-year-old patriarch has fought his way to the top and now must confront the fact that he is going to die.
Shakespeare, William	The Merchant of Venice**
	The merchant seeks his revenge and, instead, is trapped in his own plot.
Shaw, Bernard	Bernard Shaw’s Plays	20
	This collection includes: MAJOR BARBARA, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, SAINT JOAN, and TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Shelley, Mary	Frankenstein**	9
	A classic since 1818, this is the tale of a scientist whose dream becomes his nightmare when the creature he creates, then rejects, comes back to wreak revenge.
Simpson, Mona	Lost Father	12
	While in medical school, Anne Stevenson becomes obsessed with finding her father who deserted his family when she was a child.
Singer, Isaac	Enemies	17
	A love story of Jewish-Americans who have survived the Nazi concentration camps
Singer, Isaac	Slave	14
	A novel about anti-semitism in 17^th century Poland.
Singer, Isaac	Scum	14
	Middle aged Jewish men suffer a midlife crisis in Poland’s capital city.
Smiley, Jane	Ordinary love and good will	15
	"Ordinary love" describes a mother telling her adult children about a love affair that caused their father to take custody of them. "Good Will" concentrates on the self- delusion of a man who strives for self-sufficiency on a remote farm anfd the misery this causes his family.
Smiley, Jane	Thousand Acres	14
	King Lear as played out on an Iowa farm.
Soseki, Natsume	Kokoro**	16
	Nineteenth-century Japanese novel concerned with man's loneliness in the modern world.
Stafford, Jean	Boston Adventure	9
	The haunting story of a young girl in flight from her impoverished childhood.
Stead, Christina	The Little Hotel**	13
	A satirical tale of eccentric and self-deluding expatriates in Switzerland after WWII
Stegner, Wallace	The Spectator Bird**	1
	Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life.
Steinbeck, John	Grapes of Wrath	16
	Migrant farm workers endure the Dustbowl during the Great Depression
Stevenson, Robert Louis	The Master of Ballantrae**	12
	In this historical tale of the Scottish lowlands in the eighteenth century, Robert Louis Stevenson brought to the novel of adventure a psychological sophistication it had never before possessed.
Thomas, Lewis	Medusa and the Snail	12
	Wonderful essays by the author of "The Lives of a Cell". This collection covers everything from the human genius for making mistakes to cloning.
Taylor, Peter	A Summons to Memphis**	15
	When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger woman, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.
Tolstoy, Leo	Kreutzer Sonata	13
	The story of a man whose sexual jealousy, inflamed by guilt, drives him to murder his wife.
Traven, B.	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	17
	Sierra Madre is a powerful allegory about greed and its deadly allure.
Turgenev, Ivan	Father and Sons	16
	The generation gap in 19^th century Russia.
Tyler, Anne	The Accidental Tourist	16
	Macon Leary--a travel writer is about to embark on a surprising new adventure, arriving in the form of a fuzzy-haired dog obedience trainer.
Tyler, Anne	The Ladder of Years	13
	Married with three almost-grown children, Delia Grinstead has vanished without trace or reason.
Tyler, Anne	Saint Maybe	15
	Ian Bedloe, stricken with guilt over the death of his older brother, raises three children unrelated to him by blood.
Unger, Douglas	Leaving the Land	12
	Farm life and agribusiness in South Dakota.
Updike, John	Rabbit at rest	10
	Rabbit Angerstam has now reached middle age and is finding it hard not to blink as he faces his mortality.
Vidal, Gore	City and the Pillar	13
	In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford shared a moment of sexual intimacy. When Jim tries to recreate that moment years later, it explodes with violence and pain.
Wakefield, Dan	Returning	16
	A spiritual journey. The author returns to Boston from Hollywood where the pressure was turning him into an alcoholic.
Walker, Alice	The Color Purple	9
	An epistolatory novel stresing loyalty among women in Southern states. A Pulitzer Prize winner.
Warren, Robert Penn	All the King’s Men	15
	Country lawyers and political corruption in the South.
Waugh, Evelyn	Brideshead revisited	16
	Chronicles the lives of the mebers of a wealthy, Catholic, English family.
Weldon, Fay	Lives and Loves of a She-Devil	15
	A humorous fable about the battle between men and women.
Welty, Eudora	One Writer’s Beginnings	13
	A glimpse into the author’s childhood and how it affected and enriched her writing career.
Wharton, Edith	Age of Innocence	14
	An elegant portrait of love and betrayal in old New York.
Wharton, Edith	Ethan Frome**	15
	An entrancing but sad story of a poverty-stricken Massachusetts farmer caught in a loveless marriage.
Wharton, Edith	House of Mirth	15
	The story of young Lily Bart and her tragic stay among the upper classes of turn-of-the-century New York.
Wiesel, Elie	Night	10
	A fictional autobiography of a Holocaust survivor.
Wilde, Oscar	The Picture of Dorian Gray**	14
	Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent.
Wilson, Harriet	Our Nig or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black**	15
	"Our Nig" was rediscovered and is considered to be the first novel by an African-American published in the United States. It is a fascinating book which combines elements of nineteenth-century slave narratives and domestic novels.
Woolf, Virginia	To the Lighthouse	12
	The daily life of an English family in the Hebrides.
Wright, Richard	Native Son	9
	Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or deat.