Goodbye, Columbus: And Five Short Stories

Neil Klugman and pretty, spirited Brenda Patimkin - he of poor Newark, she of suburban Short Hills - meet one summer and dive into an affair that is as much about social class and suspicion as it is about love. The novella, the first book published by Philip Roth, explores issues of both class and Jewish assimilation into American culture. It won the National Book Award in 1960.

• The Ghost Writer: The Nathan Zuckerman Series, Book 1
• American Pastoral
• Sabbath's Theater
• The Plot Against America
• Everyman
• I Married a Communist: Nathan Zuckerman, Book 2
• The Counterlife
• The Human Stain
• Remembering Roth
• Patrimony: A True Story