The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium.

Nation and Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day

Features:

• Significant new interpretations of major novelists and their contemporaries, showing the development of English fiction across the centuries
• Shows the novel's contribution to ideas of Englishness and English national identity
• Links the development of the novel to national history and national mythology

Facts on File Library of World Literature - World Novel (1900 to the Present)

"The Facts On File Companion to the World Novel, 1900 to the Present" is a new two-volume reference guide featuring more than 600 entries on the world's greatest modern novels and novelists, including everything from acknowledged classics to the best of contemporary fiction. Written in a clear, engaging style with contributions from literary scholars around the world, this appealing work is an essential tool for students of great literature. 

Gods Behaving Badly: A Novel by Marie Phillips

Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the twenty-first century, but they are crammed together in a London townhouse-and none too happy about it. And they've had to get day jobs: Artemis as a dog-walker, Apollo as a TV psychic, Aphrodite as a phone sex operator, Dionysus as a DJ.

The Virgin Suicides: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides