#1: Technique in Fiction, 2nd ed., by Robie Macauley and George Lanning.
#2: Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre, by Robert Alter.
#3: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers.
#4: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
#5: Death is a Lonely Business, by Ray Bradbury.
#6: On Becoming a Novelist, by John C. Gardner.
#7: Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis.
#8: A Portrait of Jennie, by Robert Nathan.
#9: Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes.
#10: Carnival for the Gods, by Gladys Swan.
#11: Aspects of the Novel, by E. M. Forster.
#12: Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.
#13: More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon.
#14: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, by Philip K. Dick.
#15: Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut.
#16: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey.
#17: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie.
#18: Grendel, by John C. Gardner.
#19: The Notebook of Lost Things, by Megan Staffel.
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