“Overlooked Works of Fiction,” from Context, from the Center for Book Culture
Source: http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no13/readingguides_No13.html
• Chromos, Felipe Alfau
• Locos, Felipe Alfau
• Another Country, James Baldwin
• Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin
• Silk, Allessandro Baricco
• Revenge of the Lawn/The Abortion/So the Wind Won’t Blow It All Away: 3 Books in 1 Volume, Richard Brautigan
• The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
• 62: A Model Kit, Julio Cortazar
• The Gift of Stones, Jim Crace
• Days between Stations, Steve Erickson
• A Man’s Place, Annie Ernaux
• Simple Passion, Annie Ernaux
• A Woman’s Story, Annie Ernaux
• Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me, Richard Farina
• Under the Frog, Tibor Fischer
• Kalimantaan, C. S. Godshalk
• Dream Boy, Jim Grimsley
• Winter Birds, Jim Grimsley
• Let’s Fall in Love, Carol De Chellis Hill
• Corregidora, Gayl Jones
• Blood Lake and Other Stories, Jim Krusoe
• Okla Hannali, R.A. Lafferty
• The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus
• The Conversions, Harry Mathews
• Canone Inverso, Paolo Maurensig
• Diana of the Crossways, George Meredith
• The Last Life, Claire Messud
• Lost in Translation, Nicole Mones
• The Octopus: A Story of California, Frank Norris
• A Prayer for the Dying, Stewart O’Nan
• The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Kenneth Patchen
• Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
• Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake
• Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake
• Aliens of Affection, Padget Powell
• Edisto Revisited, Padget Powell
• Typical, Padget Powell
• The Radetzsky March, Joseph Roth
• Perfume, Patrick Suskind
• The Insult, Rupert Thompson
• Kristin Lavransdatter, Sigrid Undset
• The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker
• A Hard Time To Be a Father, Fay Weldon
• The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
• Terraplane, Jack Womack
• All Patrick Chamoiseau
• All William H. Gass
• All Jean Giono
• All Milan Kundera
• All Cormac McCarthy that is not the Border Trilogy (esp. Suttree)
• All Iris Murdoch
• All Anna Maria Ortese
• All Richard Powers
• All Christina Stead
• All Robert Stone except Damascus Gate
• All Alexander Theroux
• All Robert Walser