Sherman Alexie, Reservation Blues; The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; Indian Killer
Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride; Alias Grace; The Blind Assassin
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter; The Rule of the Bone; Cloudsplitter
Pat Barker, Regeneration
Charles Baxter, First Light, The Feast of Love
A.S. Byatt, Possession
Ethan Canin, Carry Me Across the Water
Tracy Chevalier, The Girl With the Pearl Earring
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street; Woman Hollering Creek
Laurie Colwin, Goodbye Without Leaving; Happy All the Time; A Big Storm Knocked It Over
Martha Cooley, The Archivist
J. California Cooper, Some Soul to Keep; Family
Michael Cunningham, The Hours; A Home at the End of the World; Specimen Days
Louis DeBernieres, Corelli's Mandolin
Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
Christopher Durang, Beyond Therapy (play)
Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Leif Enger, Peace Like a River
Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine; Tracks; The Beet Queen; The Bingo Palace; The Antelope Wife
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Ernest Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban
Ellen Gilchrist, Drunk With Love; The Annunciation; The Anna Papers
Myra Goldberg, Bee Season
John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation (play)
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
George Hagen, The Laments
Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth; A Map of the World
Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
Ursula Hegi, Stones From the River; Floating in my Mother's Palm
Robert Hellenga, The Sixteen Pleasures
Oscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Peter Hoeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow; Borderliners
Dara Horn, The World to Come
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, How to be Good
Velina Hasu Houston, Tea (play)
Josephine Humphreys, Rich in Love; The Fireman's Fair
Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Gish Jen, Typical American; Mona in the Promised Land
Ha Jin, Waiting
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World
Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees; Animal Dreams; Pigs in Heaven; Homeland and Other Stories; The Poisonwood Bible
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior; China Men; Tripmaster Monkey
Nicole Krauss, A History of Love
Tony Kushner, Angels in America (play)
Gus Lee, China Boy
Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House; Niagara Falls All Over Again
Alice McDermott, Charming Billy, Child of My Heart
Ian McEwan, Atonement; Saturday
Terry McMillan, Waiting to Exhale; Mama
Terence McNally, Lips Together, Teeth Apart (play)
Gergory Maguire, Wicked
Naguib Mahfouz, The Palace Walk
Bobbie Ann Mason, Spence + Lila; In Country; Feather Crowns; Love Life
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye; Beloved; Jazz; Song of Solomon
Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine; The Middleman and Other Stories
Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place; Bailey's Cafe; Mama Day
Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise
Joyce Carol Oates, Son of the Morning; Zombie
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient; In the Skin of a Lion
Marge Piercy, Gone to Soldiers
T.R. Pearson, A Short History of a Small Place
Arthur Phillips, Prague
Chet Raymo, The Dork of Cork
Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada; The Freelance Pallbearers
Tomas Rivera, ...y no se lo trago tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Jose Saramago, Blindness
Frances Sherwood, Vindication
Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Nicky Silver, Pterodactyls (play)
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony; Gardens in the Dunes
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Patrick Suskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant; The Accidental Tourist; Saint Maybe; Earthly Possessions
Brady Udall, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint
Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue
Kate Walbert, The Gardens of Kyoto
Alice Walker, The Color Purple
John Edgar Wideman, Sent For You Yesterday; Fever
Shawn Wong, Homebase; American Knees
Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain
Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
