J.M. Ledgard's novel Submergence (2011)

Penelope Fitzgerald's novel Offshore (1979)

Edward P. Jones's collection of stories Lost in the City (1992)

Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas (in the collection The Marquise of O— and Other Stories) (1810)

Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel The Bridge of Beyond (1972)

Geoffrey Household's thriller Rogue Male

Janet Lewis's historical novel The Wife of Martin Guerre

Helen DeWitt's novel The Last Samurai (2000)

James Weldon Johnson's novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912)

Ben Katchor's collection of Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer comic strips, Cheap Novelties (1991)

Elizabeth Harrower's novel The Watch Tower (1966)

Kathleen Collins's book of stories, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (2016)

Josephine Tey's mid-century mystery, Brat Farrar (1949)

Yasushi Inoue's short novel, Bullfight (1949)

Tom Drury's novel The End of Vandalism (1994)

Angela Carter's show-business novel, Wise Children (1991)

Georges Simenon's crime novel The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1938)

Joan London’s novel Gilgamesh (2001)

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s science-fiction novel Roadside Picnic (1972)

Seth Kantner’s novel Ordinary Wolves (2004)

Madeleine St. John’s novel The Women in Black (1993)

Toni Cade Bambara’s book of short stories Gorilla, My Love (1972)

Charles Portis’s novel The Dog of the South (1979)

Norah Lofts’s historical novel The Town House

Patrick Hamilton’s novel The Slaves of Solitude

Molly Gloss’s novella, Outside the Gates

Charles W. Chestnutt’s novel The Marrow of Tradition

Tim Krabbé’s cycling novel, The Rider

Carolyn See’s novel Golden Days (1987)

Lore Segal’s novel Her First American (1985)

Marguerite Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian

Andrew Holleran’s novel Grief

China Miéville’s novel The City & the City

Elizabeth Hardwick’s novel Sleepless Nights

Tarjei Vesaas’s novel The Ice Palace

William Melvin Kelley’s novel of sudden Black migration from the South, A Different Drummer

Rosamond Lehmann’s novel of youthful love and friendship, Dusty Answer

Rita Dove’s poetic imagining of the lives of her parents, Thomas and Beulah

David Adams Richards’s novel of family in small-town New Brunswick, Nights Below Station Street

R.C. Sherriff’s novel of a family seaside vacation, The Fortnight in September

Maryse Condé’s fictional reimagining of a lost figure from the witch trials, I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem

Flann O’Brien’s novel of bicycles and strange dimensions, The Third Policeman

Kay Dick’s dystopian novel, They

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s novel of the Indian forest, Aranyak

Winifred Holtby’s social novel of a Yorkshire community, South Riding

Dorothy Baker’s jazz novel, Young Man with a Horn

Michael Shou-Yung Shum’s novel of gambling and suburban Seattle, Queen of Spades

Harry Mulisch’s novel of World War II and its aftermath in the Netherlands, The Assault

A.R. Ammons’s long poem, Sphere: The Form of a Motion

Colin MacInnes’s novel of teen culture in 1950s London, Absolute Beginners

Sanora Babb’s novel of small-town Kansas, The Lost Traveler

Kim Thúy’s novel of a Vietnamese refugee in Canada, Ru

Gwendolyn Brooks’s novel of a life in Chicago, Maud Martha

Debra Magpie Earling's novel of the Flathead Indian Reservation in the 1940s, Perma Red

George V. Higgins's crime novel of 1970s Boston, The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Keith Roberts’s alternative history of post-Elizabeth England, Pavane

Edith Wilson’s novel of a woman making a new life for herself in the British Columbia interior, Swamp Angel

Sybille Bedford’s autobiographical novel of a transient youth spent among irresponsible adults, Jigsaw