American Pastoral – Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Philip Roth

The Long Shadow of Hope – Andrew Spradling’s novel about the underbelly of college football.

Overtime: A Basketball Parable – the story of basketball coach Carl Campbell, the second novel of Larry Ellis.

Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger – short story collection of J.D. Salinger

The Heart is a Boring Atrocity – one person’s view (not mine) of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter