1. Moby-Dick (1851), by Herman Melville

2. The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3. Absalom, Absalom! (1936), by William Faulkner

4. Huckleberry Finn (1885), by Mark Twain

5. Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), by Nathanael West

6. The Rabbit Novels, by John Updike

     —Rabbit, Run (1960); Rabbit Redux (1971); Rabbit is Rich (1981); Rabbit at Rest (1990); Rabbit Remembered (2001)*

7. Lolita (1955), by Vladimir Nabokov

8. Morte ‘DUrban (1962), by J. F. Powers

9. The Sun Also Rises (1926), by Ernest Hemingway

10. Herzog (1964), by Saul Bellow

11. Gone Girl (2012), by Gillian Flynn

12. The Catcher in the Rye (1951), by J. D. Salinger

13. Solar (2010), by Ian McEwan

14. Play It as It Lays (1972), by Joan Didion

15. Goodbye, Columbus (1959), by Philip Roth

16. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), by Junot Diaz

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* Rabbit Remembered, presented in a collection of pieces, is probably suitably characterized as a novella.