Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

The Bookpiles

Immediate Bookpile (aka Bookpile 1):

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by Z.Z. Packer
Endangered Dreams by Kevin Starr
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
The White Album by Joan Didion
Little Follies by Eric Kraft
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Sphinx by Joseph Ellis
The Stories of My Life by Ted Chiang
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

Bookpile 2:

So Little Time by John P. Marquand
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power
Three Junes by Julia Glass
The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Dream Endures by Kevin Starr
The Lobster Chronicles by Linda Greenlaw
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Bookpile 3:

The Asiatics by Frederick Prokosch
Chimera by John Barth
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
Doctor Criminale by Malcolm Bradbury
The Anatomy of Swearing by Ashley Montagu
Nothing Like It In the World by Stephen Ambrose
West of Eden by Harry Harison
Flynn by Gregory MacDonald
Rock Springs by Richard Ford

Bookpile 4:

Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker
It Must Have Been Something I Ate by Jeffrey Steingarten
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
The Scar by China Mieville
You Are a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett

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