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Best 1 Letting Go
Letting Go

Philip Roth's 1962 debut full-length novel set largely at the University of Chicago, charting the moral entanglements of graduate students and young faculty.

2 Indignation

Philip Roth's 2008 novel narrated by a Jewish student at an Ohio college in 1951 whose principled defiance of conformity leads to fatal consequences.

3 The Dying Animal

Philip Roth's 2001 novella in which aging literature professor David Kepesh becomes obsessively entangled with a young Cuban-American student.

4 The Professor of Desire

Philip Roth's 1977 novel tracing English professor David Kepesh's erotic and intellectual development from college through a disillusionment in Prague.

5 The Anatomy Lesson

Philip Roth's 1983 novel, third in the Zuckerman Bound trilogy, in which novelist Nathan Zuckerman is paralyzed by back pain and considers abandoning writing.

6 Exit Ghost
Exit Ghost

Philip Roth's 2007 novel, the final Nathan Zuckerman book, in which the aging writer returns to New York City after years of seclusion in rural New England.

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