2006
Donald Antrim, The Hundred Brothers
Anne Atik, How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett
Roland Barthes, The Responsibility of Forms
Bruce Benderson, User
Jane Bowles, Two Serious Ladies
Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
Dennis Cooper, The Sluts
Sam D'Allesandro, The Wild Creatures
Antonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
Guy Davenport, Apples and Pears
Marguerite Duras, The Vice-Consul
Tony Duvert, When Jonathan Died
Deborah Eisenberg, Twilight of the Superheroes
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Diana George, Disciplines
Alasdair Gray, The Ends of Our Tethers
Germaine Greer, The Beautiful Boy
Hervé Guibert, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Daniel Harris, The Rise and Fall of Gay Culture
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, The Lord Chandos Letter
Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature
Pierre Klossowski, Roberte Ce Soir & The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Alexander Kluge, Attendance List for a Funeral
Alexander Kluge, The Devil's Blind Spot
Stacey Levine, Frances Johnson
Ben Marcus, Notable American Women
Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget
Ander Monson, Other Electricities
Geoffrey O'Brien, Sonata for Jukebox: An Autobiography of My Ears
Kenzaburo Oe, A Personal Matter
Marvin Heiferman and Lisa Phillips, John Waters: Change of Life
Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Marie Redonnet, Forever Valley
Marie Redonnet, Hotel Splendid
Marie Redonnet, Rose Mellie Rose
Luc Sante, The Factory of Facts
Lynne Tillman, Haunted Houses
2005
Steve Abbott, Holy Terror
John Banville, Shroud
John D. Barrow, The Artful Universe
Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon
Samuel Beckett, More Pricks Than Kicks
Samuel Beckett, Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels
Samuel Beckett, The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
Caroline Blackwood, Corrigan
Corinne May Botz, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
Blaise Cendrars, Moravagine
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Dennis Cooper, God Jr.
Dennis Cooper, My Loose Thread
Charles D'Ambrosio, Orphans
Charles D'Ambrosio, The Point
Edward Dahlberg, Because I Was Flesh
Guy Davenport, Eclogues
Joan Didion, Where I Was From
Brian Evenson, Contagion and Other Stories
Jean Genet, Funeral Rites
Robert Gluck, Margery Kempe
Witold Gombrowicz, Bacacay
Robert Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead
Richard Hell, Godlike
Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game
Gert Hofmann, Luck
Gert Hofmann, The Film Explainer
Timothy Hursley, Brothels of Nevada
Gary Indiana, Schwarzenegger Syndrome: Politics and Celebrity in the Age of Contempt
Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks
Kevin Killian, Little Men
Michael Lesy, Wisconsin Death Trip
Sam Lipsyte, The Subject Steve
Federico Garcia Lorca, Poet in New York
Gary Lutz, I Looked Alive
Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro
David Markson, Vanishing Point
David Markson, Wittgenstein's Mistress
Harry Mathews, The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium
Derek McCormack, Grab Bag
Jimmy McDonough, The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan
Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Browser's Ecstasy
George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Robert Pinget, Mahu or The Material
Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
Roy Porter, Madness: A Brief History
Padgett Powell, Aliens of Affection
James Purdy, Moe's Villa & Other Stories
Raymond Queneau, Exercises in Style
Raymond Radiguet, Count d'Orgel's Ball
Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Robin Robertson (ed.), Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame
D. Travers Scott, One of These Things is Not Like the Other
Michael Shermer, The Borderlands of Science
Marvin J. Taylor, The Downtown Book: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984
Lynne Tillman, Motion Sickness
Lawrence Weschler, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Timothy D. Wilson, Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious
2004
J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
J.G. Ballard, Crash
J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
John Banville, Athena
John Banville, Eclipse
Samuel Beckett, How It Is
Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier
Samuel Beckett, Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Samuel Beckett, Watt
Thomas Bernhard, Old Masters: A Comedy
Thomas Bernhard, The Loser
Thomas Bernhard, Yes
Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
Maurice Blanchot, Death Sentence
Jorge Luis Borges, An Introduction to English Literature
Joe Brainard, I Remember
Rebecca Brown, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary
Luis Buńuel, My Last Sigh
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar
Emmanuel Carrere, The Mustache
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Paul Collins, Banvard's Folly
Dennis Cooper, Frisk
Dennis Cooper, Guide
Dennis Cooper, Period
Dennis Cooper, Try
Lucy Corin, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls
Guy Davenport, A Table of Green Fields
Lydia Davis, Break It Down
Daniel C. Dennett, Kinds of Minds
Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
Stephen Dixon, Interstate
Jean Echenoz, Chopin's Move
Stanley Elkin, The Franchiser
Steve Erickson, Arc d'X
Michel Faber, Under the Skin
William Faulkner, Light in August
Henry Fielding, Jonathan Wild the Great
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower
Janet Frame, Faces in the Water
Janet Frame, Scented Gardens For the Blind
David Gates, Jernigan
Robert Gluck, Denny Smith
Peter Handke, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Peter Handke, Across
Peter Handke, Repetition
Peter Handke, The Weight of the World
Daniel Harris, A Memoir of No One in Particular
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Fleur Jaeggy, Sweet Days of Discipline
Franz Kafka, Amerika
Franz Kafka, The Trial
Imre Kertesz, Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Kevin Killian, Shy
Joe LeSueur, Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara
Roger Lewin, The Origin of Modern Humans
Clarice Lispector, Family Ties
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
Ben Marcus, The Age of Wire and String
Harry Mathews, Cigarettes
James McCourt, Time Remaining
Ian McEwan, Atonement
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov, Despair
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Geoffrey O'Brien, The Phantom Empire
Stewart O'Nan, A Prayer for the Dying
Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
James Purdy, Children Is All
James Purdy, Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
James Purdy, I Am Elijah Thrush
James Purdy, Narrow Rooms
James Purdy, On Glory's Course
James Purdy, Out With the Stars
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Jonathan Raban, Bad Land: An American Romance
Jonathan Raymond, The Half-Life
Keith Ridgway, The Long Falling
Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping
Mary Robison, Oh!
Mary Robison, Subtraction
Joseph Roth, Collected Stories
Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
Luc Sante, Low Life
Jose Saramago, All the Names
Gilbert Sorrentino, Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things
Tom Spanbauer, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
Matthew Stadler, The Sex Offender
Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub and Other Works
Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants
Paul Theroux, My Other Life
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Michael Tolkin, Among the Dead
George W. S. Trow, Within the Context of No Context
Colm Tóibín, The Blackwater Lightship
Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing
Luisa Valenzuela, Bedside Manners
Fernando Vallejo, Our Lady of the Assassins
Steve Weiner, The Museum of Love
Steve Weiner, The Yellow Sailor
Benjamin Weissman, Headless
Denton Welch, Maiden Voyage
Eudora Welty, The Golden Apples
Glenway Wescott, The Grandmothers
2003
J.R. Ackerley, We Think the World of You
Renata Adler, Speedboat
Donald Antrim, Elect Mr. Robinson For a Better World
Donald Antrim, The Verificationist
J.G. Ballard, High Rise
Donald Barthelme, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
Samuel Beckett, Murphy
Michel Bernanos, The Other Side of the Mountain
Thomas Bernhard, On The Mountain
Thomas Bernhard, The Voice Imitator
Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Caroline Blackwood, Great Granny Webster
William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
Simon Callow, Love Is Where It Falls: The Story of a Passionate Friendship
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey To the End of the Night
Ivy Compton-Burnett, A God and his Gifts
Dennis Cooper, Closer
Lydia Davis, Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories
Don DeLillo, The Body Artist
Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays
Geoff Dyer, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It
Paula Fox, Desperate Characters
Marjorie Garber, Dog Love
John Gilmore, Laid Bare: A Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip
Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
Alasdair Gray, Ten Tales Tall & True
Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
Roger Grenier, The Difficulty of Being a Dog
Jim Grimsley, Dream Boy
Allan Gurganus, White People
David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
Patricia Highsmith, Deep Water
Patricia Highsmith, Edith's Diary
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Gary Indiana, Do Everything In the Dark
Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
Charles Kaiser, The Gay Metropolis
Anna Kavan, Mercury
Danilo Kis, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Agota Kristof, The Notebook/The Proof/The Third Lie: Three Novels
Tommaso Landolfi, Gogol's Wife and Other Stories
Jonathan Lethem, Girl In Landscape
Sidney Lumet, Making Movies
Harry Mathews, 20 Lines a Day
Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers
Patrick McGrath, Spider
Daniel Mendelsohn, The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity
Barry Miles, The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs & Corso in Paris, 1957-1963
Cookie Mueller, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading
Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dawn Powell, The Wicked Pavilion
James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins
James Purdy, Eustace Chisholm and the Works
James Purdy, Garments the Living Wear
James Purdy, In a Shallow Grave
James Purdy, Malcolm
James Purdy, The House of the Solitary Maggot
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Mary Robison, Tell Me: 30 Stories
Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever
George Saunders, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella
George Saunders, Pastoralia
Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
W.G. Sebald, The Emigrants
W.G. Sebald, Vertigo
Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors
Lynne Tillman, This Is Not It
Robert Walser, Selected Stories
Denton Welch, A Voice Through a Cloud
Glenway Wescott, The Pilgrim Hawk: A Love Story
Cintra Wilson, A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Reexamined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations
Mary Woronov, Snake
Mary Woronov, Wake For the Angels: Paintings and Stories
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