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1. Mexican Days by Tony Cohan
2. Las batallas en el desierto / Battles in the Desert by Jose Emilio Pacheco
3. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
4. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo by Jose Antonio Burciaga
5. Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec
6. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
7. Ice by Vladimir Sorokin
8. Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
9. Insect Dreams by Marc Estrin
10. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom
12. Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead by Alan DeNiro *
13. The Cottagers by Marshall N. Klimasewiski *
14. Sacco And Vanzetti Must Die! by Mark Binelli *
15. The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
16. Distant Neighbors by Alan Riding
17. Anxious Pleasures by Lance Olsen
18. The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
19. On Mexican Time by Tony Cohan
20. Amulet by Roberto Bolano
21. Jamestown by Matthew Sharpe *
22. Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens
23. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
24. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolano
25. The Meanings of Macho by Matthew C. Gutmann
26. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
27. We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau
28. Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau
29. The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll by Alvaro Mutis
30. Massacre in Mexico by Elena Poniatowska
31. A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America by David Griffith
32. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
33. Falling Man by Don DeLillo
34. African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
35. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
36. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
37. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
38. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
39. Crossing the Yard by Richard Shelton
40. Time of Grace by Ken Lamberton
41. Criticism: Major Statements edited by Charles Kaplan
42. Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye
43. Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg
44. Montano's Malady by Enrique Vila-Matas
45. Como me hice monja / How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira
46. The Rhetoric of Fiction by Wayne Booth
47. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
48. Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
49. The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
50. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
51. The Enormity of the Tragedy by Quim Monzo
52. The Irresponsible Self by James Wood
53. The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross
54. Place-names by Jean Ricardou
55. Sylvia by Leonard Michaels
56. Middlemarch by George Eliot
57. Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
58. The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe
59. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
60. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
* denotes LBC nominee