High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Mario and the Magician - Thomas Mann

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio Bassani

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Bel ami - Guy de Maupassant

What Time Is It at Night - Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

The Death of the Pythia - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

The Eternal Husband - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Bishop's Room - Piero Chiara

Endless Escape - Joseph Roth

The Aspern Correspondence - Henry James

The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith

The Context - Leonardo Sciascia