• Emerald City (short story collection) (1993)
• The Invisible Circus (novel) (1995)
• Look at Me (novel) (2001), finalist for the National Book Award
• The Keep (novel) (2006)
• A Visit from the Goon Squad (novel) (2010)

Jennifer Egan is a refreshingly unclassifiable novelist; she deploys most of the arsenal developed by the metafiction writers of the 1960’s and refined by more recent authors like William T. Vollmann and David Foster Wallace ... but she can’t exactly be counted as one of them. The opening of her novel, “The Keep,” lays out a whole Escherian architecture, replete with metafictional trapdoors, pitfalls, infinitely receding reflections and trompe l’oeil effects, but what’s more immediately striking about this book is its unusually vivid and convincing realism.