...ranked more or less in order:
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (again)
- Running After Antelope, Scott Carrier
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
- Child of God, Cormac McCarthy
- House Made of Dawn, N. Scott Momaday
- Rabbit Boss, Thomas Sanchez
- The Columbian Exchange, Alfred Crosby
- The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
- Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro & Other Stories, Ernest Hemingway
- Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
- Notes from Underground, Fydor Dostoyevsky
- The Metamorphosis & Other Stories, Franz Kafka