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This much ignorance about literature can only lead to hurt feelings and a whole lot of nonsense.

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick For some reason I always think of Philip K. Dick as less than when it comes to writing. Like less than in a non-literary way. As if a guy writing dystopian science fiction can't be a decent writer. It seems, as usual, that I'm mistaken. Granted, I consider a writer "literary" if the shit he writes confuses, confounds or generally flies right over my head. Which was the case in parts of this particular novel. Though, I'm wondering if this effect was due more in part to my horrendous inability to remember names and ranks than his incredible... more
A	Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison Animal's People by Indra Sinha Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
B	Being Dead by Jim Crace Big Fish by Daniel Wallace Big If by Mark Costello Black Dogs by Ian McEwan Black Swan Green by David Mitchell Blindness by José Saramago The Body Artist by Don DeLillo The Book of Dave by Will Self The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juno Díaz Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin The Buzzing by Jim Knipfel
C	Call it Sleep by Henry Roth Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston Choke by Chuck Palahniuk Christine Falls by John Banville Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Continent by Jim Crace The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Cosmopolis by Don Delillo Crossing California by Adam Langer The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Hadden
D	Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee The Diviners by Rick Moody Dreamland by Kevin Baker
E	Empire Falls by Richard Russo English Passengers by Matthew Kneale Epileptic by David B. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
F	Falling Man by Don DeLillo A Field Guide to the Urban Hipster by Josh Aiello A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry The Fixer by Bernard Malamud Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham Flicker by Theodore Roszak The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem Freakonomics by Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Freedom by Jonathan Franzen Fury by Salman Rushdie
G	Ghostwritten by David Mitchell The God of Small Things by Arundhhati Roy Great House by Nicole Krauss
H	Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World by Haruki Murakami The History of Love by Nicole Krauss Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski House of Meetings by Martin Amis How Soon is Never? by Marc Spitz How the Dead Live by Will Self How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
I	The Ice Storm by Rick Moody If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead It's Superman! by Tom De Haven
J	Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
K	Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
L	The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Life of Pi by Yan Martel A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
M	The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss Matchstick Men by Eric Garcia McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales edited by Michael Chabon McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 13 edited by Chris Ware McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 14 edited by David Eggers McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 15 edited by David Eggers McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Volume 16 edited by David Eggers Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Ministry of Special Cases by Nathan Englander Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem The Moviegoer by Walker Percy The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
N	The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Night by Elie Wiesel The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff Number9Dream by David Mitchell
O	Oh the Glory of it All by Sean Wilsey On Beauty by Zadie Smith
P	Pattern Recognition by William Gibson The Plot Against America by Philip Roth The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs Post Office by Charles Bukowski The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis Purple America by Rick Moody
Q	Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler by Ethan Brown
R	Rabbit, Run by John Updike Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall The Road by Cormac McCarthy Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
S	A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick The Sea by John Banville Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Perlman The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman The Sportswriter by Richard Ford Stet by James Chapman Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen Sunset Park by Paul Auster
T	That Old Ace in the Hole by Annie Proulx Theft by Peter Carey A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers Tinkers by Paul Harding True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Tuff by Paul Beatty The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
U	Ubik by Philip K. Dick Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
V	Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennier Egan
W	Wake Up, Sir! by Jonathan Ames What Is the What by Dave Eggers White Teeth by Zadie Smith A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin The World to Come by Dara Horn
Y	Yellow Dog by Martin Amis The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
Z	Zeroville by Steve Erickson