The Corrections was published in 2001 and received the National Book Award the same year.

While much of Bradbury’s work is categorized as literary science fiction, Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopia that takes place in a society in which books are burned and knowledge is suppressed by an authoritarian state.

Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451 in 1953.

The novel was published in 1953 amidst real threats of book burning, censorship, and McCarthyism in America.

Jonathan Franzen published Freedom in 2010. The Broom of the System (1987) is by David Foster Wallace, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005) is by Jonathan Safran Foer, The Bluest Eye (1970) is by Toni Morrison, and Invisible Man (1952) is by Ralph Ellison.

E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News was published in 1993 and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.

The Martian Chronicles (1950), Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Dandelion Wine (1957), and The Illustrated Man (1951) are all novels by Ray Bradbury. Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) is a famous science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein.

This novel, McGuane’s second, was first published in 1971. You might have been able to narrow down the options by recognizing that McGuane was not born until 1939.

William Styron's Sophie’s Choice (1979)is set in Brooklyn, although past action was set in Auschwitz and several scenes occur outside New York City.

The Bushwhacked Piano (1971) falls into the category of the picaresque, as it follows the comical misadventures of a central character (Nicholas Payne) through a series of farcical events.

Objectivism, which has been described variously as rational individualism and monomaniacal solipsism, claims that the pinnacle of human accomplishment is personal success and happiness. These philosophical views are developed most thoroughly in Atlas Shrugged (1957).

The Fountainhead was published in 1943.