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• The Billion Dollar Sure Thing – Paul E. Erdman
• The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco
• Burr - Gore Vidal
• The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - Allan W. Eckert
• Cromwell, our Chief of Men - Antonia Fraser
• Demon Seed - Dean R. Koontz
• Devil Tree - Jerzy Kosinski
• Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw
• Eye of the Storm - Patrick WhitePatrick White ( May 28, 1912 September 30, 1990) was an Australian author. His writings make great use of the stream of consciousness technique. His first book, "The Ploughman and Other Poems", was published in 1935, and he would go on to write a total of
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
• Gravity's RainbowGravity's Rainbow is a novel published by Thomas Pynchon in 1973, set in Europe near the end of World War II during the end of 1944 and much of 1945. It features the creation of the first military rockets as a main theme and dispenses with many of the tra - Thomas PynchonThomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his complex, labyrinthine, but critically-acclaimed work. Biography Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York to Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr. and Katherine Fr
• The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home - Tim O'BrienTim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who writes about his experiences in the Vietnam War and the impact that the war had on the American soldiers who fought there. Born in Minnesota (a setting which figures prominently in his novels)
• The Matlock Paper - Robert LudlumRobert Ludlum ( May 25, 1927 March 12, 2001) was the author of 29 spy fiction novels. There are more than 210 million of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. Ludlum was once a theatrical actor and producer, and in an interv
• The Odessa FileThe Odessa File is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth about a struggle between a young German reporter and the ODESSA, an organization for Ex- Nazis. A movie adaptation of the same name was released in 1974 starring Jon Voight and directed by Ronald Ne - Frederick Forsyth
• Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
• The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• Tar Baby - Jerome Charyn
• Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
• Temptations of Big Bear - Rudy Wiebe
• There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden - Leon Forrest
• A Touch of Danger - James Jones
• Who Are You? - Anna Kavan