A Season Inside (John Feinstien)

In Patagonia (Bruce Chatwin)

Wizard's Heir (Daniel Hood)

Beggar's Banquet (Daniel Hood)

Lonsome Dove (Larry McMurtry)

David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

Scales of Justice (Daniel Hood)

Falling Angel (William Hjortsberg)

Angel of Darkness (Caleb Carr)

L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy)

Wizard & Glass (Stephen King)

Memories of Summer (Roger Kahn)

The Natural (Bernard Malmud)

Aztec (Gary Jennings)

Master & Commander (Patrick O'Brian)

Martin Dressler (Steven Millhauser)

The Club Dumas (Artuto Pérez-Reverte)

Memnoch the Devil (Anne Rice)

The Veracruz Blues (Mark Winegardner)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabakov)

The Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

The Plot to Kill Jackie Robinson (Donald Honig)

Post Captain (Patrick O'Brian)

God's Grace (Bernard Malamud)

The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

The Perfect Storm (Sebastian Junger)

A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)

Up in the Old Hotel (Joseph Mitchell)

The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

H.M.S. Surprise (Patrick O'Brian)

Cities of the Plain (Cormac McCarthy)

Lord of the Barnyard (Tristan Egolf)

Billy Verité (Rich Harsch)

The Mauritius Command (Patrick O'Brian)

Streets of Laredo (Larry McMurtry)

The Catcher Was a Spy (Nicholas Dawidoff)

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

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A Man in Full (Thomas Wolfe)

The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)

Desolation Island (Patrick O'Brian)

Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

Fall of Hyperion (Dan Simmons)

Bag of Bones (Stephen King)

The Vampire Armand (Anne Rice)

The Three Musketeers (Alexandré Dumas)

The Fortune of War (Patrick O'Brian)

Grand Central Winter (Lee Stringer)

The Surgeon's Mate (Patrick O'Brian)

The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Joseph Conrad)

The Ionian Mission (Patrick O'Brian)

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (John Le Carré)

The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)

Treason's Harbour (Patrick O'Brian)

Hannibal (Thomas Harris)

Endurance (Alfred Lansing)

The Pearl/The Red Pony (John Steinbeck)

Mrs. Craddock (W. Somerset Maugham)

The Far Side of the World (Patrick O'Brian)

Best American Short Stories of 1998

Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad)

Cool Hand Luke (Donn Pearce)

In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)

The Client (John Grisham)

Aztec Autumn (Gary Jennings)

Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer)

The General's Daughter (Nelson DeMille)

The First Eagle (Tony Hillerman)

Underworld (Don DeLillo)

Billy Bathgate (E.L. Doctrow)

The Reverse of the Medal (Patrick O'Brian)

The Letter of Marque (Patrick O'Brian)

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (Stephen King)

Hanging Curve (Troy Soos)

Riven Rock (T.C. Boyle)

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The Intuitionist (Colson Whitehead)

The Thirteen Gun Salute (Patrick O'Brian)

Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)

The Nutmeg of Consolation (Patrick O'Brian)

A Star Called Henry (Roddy Doyle)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Haruki Murakami)

In the Fall (Jeffrey Lent)

Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)

The Truelove (Patrick O'Brian)

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

The End of the Affair (Graham Greene)

The Wine-Dark Sea (Patrick O'Brian)

The Commodore (Patrick O'Brian)

Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (David Quammen)

Juneteenth (Ralph Ellison)

Vanity of Duluoz (Jack Kerouac)

The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham)

The Tenants (Bernard Malmud)

Gates of Fire (Steven Pressfield)

Servant of the Bones (Anne Rice)

The Yellow Admiral (Patrick O'Brian)

The Thin Red Line (James Jones)

The English Patient (Machael Ondaatje)

The Reader (Berhard Schlink)

The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J.K. Rowling)

A Christmas Carole (Charles Dickens)

The Hundred Days (Patrick O'Brian))

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling))

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In the Land of White Death (Valerion Albanov)

Why Sinatra Matters (Pete Hamill)

Driving Mr. Albert (Michael Paterniti)

House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski)

Blue at the Mizzen (Patrick O'Brian)

King's Cure (Daniel Hood)

Pagan Babies (Elmore Leonard)

Best American Poetry 1992

The Town and The City (Jack Kerouac)

An Instance of the Fingerpost (Ian Pears)

Child of God (Cormac McCarthy)

Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (C.S. Forester)

The Restraint of Beasts (Magnus Mills)

Lieutenant Hornblower (C.S. Forester)

A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)

The Last Picture Show (Larry McMurtry)

Hornblower and the "Hotspur" (C.S. Forester)

The Body Artist (Don DeLillo)

The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)

Ragtime (E.L. Doctorow)

All Quiet on the Orient Express (Magnus Mills)

The Collector (John Fowles)

Beyond the Game (Gary Smith)

Hornblower and the "Atropos" (C.S. Forester)

Beat to Quarters (C.S. Forester)

Ship of the Line (C.S. Forester)

Flying Colours (C.S. Forester)

The Hard Way (Will Balliett and Thomas Dyja)

The Company (Arabella Edge)

The Amityville Horror (Jay Anson)

Vittorio, The Vampire (Anne Rice)

The Haunted House Handbook (D. Scott Rogo)

Explore: Stories of Survival from off the Map (Edited by Jennifer Scwamm Willis)

The Catsitters (James Wolcott)

Commodore Hornblower (C.S. Forester)

The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)

Lord Hornblower (C.S. Forester)

The Assistant (Bernard Malmud)

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies (C.S. Forester)

Timeline (Michael Crichton)

Hornblower During the Crisis (C.S. Forester)

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

The Devil's Code (John Sanford)

The Horse Whisperer (Nicholas Evans)

Butch Cassidy, My Brother (lula Parker Betenson)

The Outlaw Trail (Charles Kelly)

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

The Golden Ocean (Patrick O'Brian)

The Fencing Master (Arturo Perez Reverte)

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Correli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres)

Galileo's Daughter (Dava Sobel)

'Tis (Frank McCourt)

Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)

A Conspiracy of Paper (David Liss)

Three to See the King (Magnus Mills)

Centennial (James A. Michener)

The Hobbitt (J.R.R. Tolkien)

The Princess Bride (William Goldman)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)

Ripley Underground (Patricia Highsmith)

Ripley's Game (Patricia Highsmith)

God's Debris (Scott Adams)

Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction (Edited by Alice K. Turner)

The Magus (John Fowles)

When We Were Orphans (Kazuo Ishiguro)

The Milagro Beanfield War (John Nichols)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (Fannie Flagg)

Naked (David Sedaris)

Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)

American Pastoral (Philip Roth)

The Waterworks (E.L. Doctorow)

The Drowning Room (Michael Pye)

Chosen Prey (John Sanford)

The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)

Not So Funny When it Happened (Edited by Tim Cahill)

Death Be Not Proud (John Gunther)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)

A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)

Charming Billy (Alice McDermott)

John Henry Days (Colson Whitehead)

Continental Drift (Russell Banks)

Theatre (W. Somerset Maugham)

Sometimes A Great Notion (Ken Kesey)

Christmas Holiday (W. Somerset Maugham)

Amsterdam (Ian McEwan)

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (Louise Erdrich)

The New Confessions (William Boyd)

Cakes and Ale (W. Somerset Maugham)

The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien)

A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)

Founding Brothers (Joseph J. Ellis)

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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All the Names (Jose Saramago)

Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)

I, Claudius (Robert Graves)

A Friend of the Earth (T.C. Boyle)

Herman Melville (Elizabeth Hardwick)

In Search of Robinson Crusoe (Tim Severin)

Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk)

Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (T.J. Stiles)

The Scheme for Full Employment (Magnus Mills)

Master & Commander (Patrick O'Brian)

The Far Side of the World (Patrick O'Brian)

The Boy Who Follwoed Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)

Longitude (Dava Sobel)

CAD (Rick Marin)

The Real McCoy (Darin Strauss)

The Nauical Chart (Arturo Perez-Reverte)

Band of Brothers (Stephen E. Ambrose)

The Killer Angels (Michael Shaara)

The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)

1984 (George Orwell)

All Quiet on the Orient Express (Magnus Mills)

Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)

The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)

Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (Edited by John Updike & Katrina Kenison)

Batavia's Graveyard (Mike Dash)

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