The Accident

In this final book of Elie Wiesel's trilogy, a damaged character (in all senses) comes to accept life and banish the ghosts of the dead. If that takes lies and a manufactured love, so be it.

Based on a True Story

A few years ago, Norm Macdonald's book club on Twitter lifted the veil and revealed his penetrating interpretations of world literature. His memoir, sly and clever and funny as it is, rings down that veil, which is doubtless the better commercial decision but still a bit disappointing.

Dawn

The second book in Elie Wiesel's trilogy, Dawn, explores how brutality breeds brutality. 

Lancelot

In this engaging, funny, and occasionally horrifying novel, Walker Percy offers both a critique of the modern world and a prescription for a new one. So skilled and persuasive is the prose that the reader barely notices the audacity of the enterprise.

Sanctuary

Faulkner called this novel a "cheap idea," and a reader today is still capable of being shocked by the scenes of voyeurism and the presence of the infamous corncob. But in accessing the deepest, darkest parts of the human soul, the writer has produced a worthy and lasting novel.