The River by Peter Heller
  Five Decembers by James Kestrel
  The Quiet American by Graham Greene
  The Exchange by John Grisham
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  James by Percival Everett
  Devotions by Mary Oliver
  Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams
  The 47th Samurai by Stephen Hunter