The Children’s Hospital – Chris Adrian

Harbor – Lorraine Adams

Candyfreak – Steve Almond

Articles of War – Nick Arvin

Natasha – David Bezmogis

Chasing the Sea – Tom Bissell

Goblin Fruit – David Marshall Chan

I Sailed With Magellan – Stuart Dybek

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City – Nick Flynn

Hell at the Breech – Tom Franklin

Veronica – Mary Gaitskill

Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon

The Disappointment Artist – Jonathan Lethem

Michael Martone by Michael Martone – Michael Martone

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

The Book of Ralph – John McNally

My Happy Life – Lydia Millet

The View from Castle Rock – Alice Munro (start at p. 127)

The Last of Her Kind – Sigrid Nunez

Lullaby – Chuck Palahniuk

Dope – Sara Gran

The Honeymoon – Justin Haythe

The Mistress’s Daughter – A.M. Homes

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Bad Land – Jonathan Raban

Among the Thugs – Bill Buford

Tree of Smoke – Denis Johnson

No One Belongs Here More Than You – Miranda July

Florida – Christine Schutt

Eat the Document – Dana Spiotta

Animal Crackers – Hannah Tinti

The Devil’s Highway – Luis Urrea

Our Kind – Kate Walbert

Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace

Madeleine Is Sleeping – Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Heart-Shaped Box – Joe Hill

The Imago Sequence – Laird Barron