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We asked our advisors at bookstores across the country to respond to a number of questions. The following lists were compiled from their answers.

Overlooked Works of Fiction

    Chromos, Felipe Alfau
    Locos, Felipe Alfau
    Another Country, James Baldwin
    Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
    Silk, Allessandro Baricco
    Revenge of the Lawn/The Abortion/So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away: 3 Books in 1 Volume, Richard Brautigan
    The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
    62: A Model Kit, Julio Cortazar
    The Gift of Stones, Jim Crace
    Days between Stations, Steve Erickson
    A Man’s Place, Annie Ernaux
    Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux
    A Woman’s Story, Annie Ernaux
    Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Fariña
    Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer
    Kalimantaan, C. S. Godshalk
    Dream Boy, Jim Grimsley
    Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley
    Let’s Fall in Love, Carol De Chellis Hill
    Corregidora, Gayl Jones
    Blood Lake and Other Stories, Jim Krusoe
    Okla Hannali, R.A. Lafferty
    The Star Rover, Jack London
    The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus
    The Conversions, Harry Mathews
    Canone Inverso, Paolo Maurensig
    Diana of the Crossways, George Meredith
    The Last Life, Claire Messud
    Lost in Translation, Nicole Mones
    The Octopus: A Story of California, Frank Norris
    A Prayer for the Dying, Stewart O’Nan
    The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Kenneth Patchen
    Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
    Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake
    Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
    Aliens of Affection, Padget Powell
    Edisto Revisited, Padget Powell
    Typical, Padget Powell
    The Radetzsky March, Joseph Roth
    Perfume, Patrick Suskind
    The Insult, Rupert Thompson
    Only Twice I’ve Wished for Heaven, Dawn Turner Trice
    Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
    The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
    A Hard Time To Be a Father, Fay Weldon
    The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
    Terraplane, Jack Womack
    All Patrick Chamoiseau
    All William H. Gass
    All Jean Giono
    All Milan Kundera
    All Cormac McCarthy that is not the Border Trilogy (esp. Suttree)
    All Iris Murdoch
    All Anna Maria Ortese
    All Richard Powers
    All Christina Stead
    All Robert Stone except Damascus Gate
    All Alexander Theroux
    All Robert Walser

Out-of-Print Works of Fiction That Should Be Reissued

    The Ark Sakura, Kobo Abe
    Droll Stories, Honore de Balzac
    Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury
    A Meditation, Juan Benet
    The Ballad of Habit and Accident, Rock Brynner
    The Worm and the Ring, Anthony Burgess
    And The Ass Saw The Angel, Nick Cave
    Little, Big, John Crowley
    Lunatics, Bradley Denton
    All about H. Hatterr, G.V. Desani
    Big as Life, E. L. Doctorow
    The Passion of Sacco and Venzetti, Howard Fast
    Flying to Nowhere, John Fuller
    The Empire City, Paul Goodman
    The Bay of Noon, Shirley Hazzard
    Gentleman’s Agreement, Laura Z. Hobson
    The Money, Honey, Linda U. Howard
    The Sundial, Shirley Jackson
    Honor, Power, Riches, Fame and the Love of Women, Ward S. Just
    The Case Worker, George Konrad
    The City Builder, George Konrad
    The Loser, George Konrad
    The Apple in the Dark, Clarice Lispector
    Foolscap, Michael Malone
    Conversations in the Cathedral, Mario Vargas Llosa
    Call and Response, T. R. Pearson
    Gospel Hour, T. R. Pearson
    Three Farmers on Their Way to A Dance, Richard Powers
    Our Beautiful Heroine, Jacques Roubaud
    Grimus, Salman Rushdie
    Isaac and the Undertaker’s Daughter, Steve Stern
    The Storm, George Stewart
    The Pigeon, Patrick Suskind
    Limbo, Bernard Wolfe
    All of Ruth Chew’s children’s books

The Most Important Works of Fiction Published within the Last Year

    The Plato Papers, Peter Ackroyd
    Heavy Water, Martin Amis
    The Verificationist, Donald Antrim
    England, England, Julian Barnes
    The Testament of Yves Gundron, Emily Barton
    The Book of Happiness, Nina Berberova
    Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland
    Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
    Final Exam, Julio Cortazar
    The Hours, Michael Cunningham
    Sister of My Heart, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    City of God, E. L. Doctorow
    The Fan-Maker’s Inquisition, Rikki Ducornet
    Glamorama, Bret Easton Ellis
    Juneteenth, Ralph Ellison
    The Sea Came in at Midnight, Steve Erickson
    Night of Amber, Sylvie Germain
    Bogeywoman, Jaimy Gordon
    The Marx Family Saga, Juan Goytisolo
    Plainsong, Kent Haruf
    Everything You Know, Zoë Heller
    PU-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, Ken Kalfus
    Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
    South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Marukami
    Enchanted Night, Steven Milhauser
    Close Range, E. Annie Proulx
    The Ground beneath Her Feet, Salman Rushdie
    An Equal Music, Vikram Seth
    Never to Return, Esther Tusquets
    Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace
    The World and Other Places, Jeanette Winterson

Current issue: CONTEXT # 22
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