Cold Comfort Farm

A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole

Ignatius J. Reilly is the most magnificently insufferable protagonist in American comic fiction -- and somehow, the novel earns every page of him.

White Noise Don DeLillo

A professor of Hitler Studies and his family navigate American consumer culture, a toxic cloud event, and the fear of death -- in that order.

Right Ho, Jeeves P.G. Wodehouse

Bertie Wooster attempts to manage the romantic catastrophes of everyone around him without his manservant Jeeves, with predictably chaotic results.

Breathing Lessons Anne Tyler

A husband and wife drive to a funeral and argue, remember, and misunderstand each other the whole way there and back.

Less Andrew Sean Greer

A minor American novelist, turning fifty and freshly dumped, flees his ex's wedding by accepting every literary invitation he has been ignoring -- and travels halfway around the world.