The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Private Citizens

Tony Tulathimutte

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby

Office Girl

Joe Meno

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Dave Eggers

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore

Everything is Illuminated

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

Modern Lovers

Emma Straub

The Circle

Dave Eggers

Geek Love

Katherine Dunn

Shoplifting From American Apparel (The Contemporary Art of the Novella)

Tao Lin

Friendship

Emily Gould

How Should a Person Be?

Sheila Heti

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Chuck Klosterman

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen