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1. Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
2. Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
3. The Ongoing Moment by Geoff Dyer
4. Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
5. Vermeer in Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler
6. Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee
7. Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell
8. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
9. Things in the Night by Mati Unt
10. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
11. The Judgment of Paris by Ross King
12. Nietzsche's Kisses by Lance Olsen
13. End Zone by Don DeLillo
14. Duchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan
15. Bouvard And Pecuchet by Gustave Flaubert
16. In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
17. Atomik Aztex by Sesshu Foster
18. The Devil Is a Gentleman by J.C. Hallman
19. Television by Jean-Philippe Toussaint *
20. Ticknor by Sheila Heti *
21. The Girl in the Glass by Jeff Ford *
22. My Sister's Continent by Gina Frangello *
23. Here they Come by Yannick Murphy *
24. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
25. Michael Martone by Michael Martone *
26. White Spirit by Paule Constant *
27. Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
28. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
29. A Temple of Texts by William Gass
30. Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
31. Crawl Space by Edie Meidav *
32. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
33. Artificial Happiness
34. The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
35. How Would a Patriot Act? by Glenn Greenwald
36. Skin by Kellie Wells *
37. Eternal Curse on the Reader of these Pages by Manuel Puig
38. Triangle by Katharine Weber
39. Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison
40. Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig
41. Mohr by Frederick Reuss
42. Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
43. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
44. Pan by Knut Hamsun
45. The Blue Guide to Indiana by Michael Martone
46. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
47. The Company of Ghosts by Lydie Salvayre
48. Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino
49. The Rainbow Stories by William T. Vollmann
50. The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski by Joseph G. Kickasola
51. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
52. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
53. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster
54. The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers
55. The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
56. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
57. Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
58. Distant Star by Roberto Bolano
59. ManBug by George K. Ilsley *
60. Firmin by Sam Savage *
61. Sideshow by Sidney Thompson *
62. Wizard of the Crow by Ngugi Wa'Thiong'O *
63. Seven Loves by Valerie Trueblood *
64. Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
65. The Immoralist by Andre Gide
66. Golem Song by Marc Estrin
67. Opening Mexico by Julia Preston and Samuel Dillon
68. Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones *
69. On the Natural History of Destruction by W.G. Sebald
* denotes LBC nominee