from the Lonoff-Roth Medical Dictionary of New England:
xanthopsia xan·thop·si·a (zān-thŏp’sē-ə) n. Chromatopsia (a visual condition) in which all objects appear as yellow as the pages of an old book of extraordinary value. A list of such fictions follows:
All Things, All at Once, by Lee K. Abbott
The Box Man, by Kobo Abe
The Children’s Hospital, by Chris Adrian
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee
Dora Flor and Her Two Husbands, by Jorge Amado
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, by Donald Antrim
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Obabakoak, by Bernardo Axtaga
Red Cavalry Stories, by Isaac Babel
The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker
Going to Meet the Man, by James Baldwin
The Sweet Hereafter, by Russell Banks
Later, at the Bar, by Rebecca Barry
60 Stories, by Donald Barthelme
The Lives of Rocks, by Rick Bass
The Stories of Richard Bausch
The Collected Works of David Bazan
The Lost Ones, by Samuel Beckett
The Collectors, by Matt Bell
Humboldt’s Gift, by Saul Bellow
Isabella Moon, by Laura Benedict
Town Smokes, by Pinckney Benedict
25th Hour, by David Benioff
Women in their Beds, by Gina Berriault
Amazons, by Cleo Birdwell
Nazi Literature in the Americas, by Roberto Bolano
Labyrinths, by one Mr. Borges
“All We Read is Freaks,” William Bowers
Tooth and Claw, T.C. Boyle
You Believers (working title), by Jane Bradley
Things That Fall from the Sky, by Kevin Brockmeier
Fay, by Larry Brown
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Ever, by Blake Butler
The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain
Tobacco Road, by Erskine Caldwell
The Palace Thief, by Ethan Canin
The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter
Where I’m Calling From, by Raymond Carver
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
The Stories of John Cheever
“Gusev,” by Anton Chekhov
We’re In Trouble, Christopher Coake
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
A Feast of Snakes, by Harry Crews
The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
In the Gloaming, by Alice Elliott Dark
Break It Down, by Lydia Davis
Silent Retreats, by Philip F. Deaver
Mao II, by Don DeLillo
“Bleed Blue in Indonesia,” by Adam Desnoyers
Drown, Junot Diaz
The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K. Dick
Deliverance, by James Dickey
I. and End of I., by Stephen Dixon
The Shell Collector, by Anthony Doerr
The Collected Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Selected Stories, Andre Dubus
How the Water Feels, Paul Eggers
The Magic Kingdom, Stanley Elkin
Happy Baby, Stephen Elliott
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, Nathan Englander
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
A Fan’s Notes, Frederick Exley
St. John of the Five Boroughs, Edward Falco
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
Dezafi, Franketienne
Poachers, Tom Franklin
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, Ben Fountain
The Recognitions, William Gaddis
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, William Gay
Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
The House of Breath, William Goyen
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
Dog on the Cross, Aaron Gwyn
Adverbs, Daniel Handler
Airships and Bats Out of Hell, Barry Hannah
Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
The Buddha in Malibu, William Harrison
“Hills Like White Elephants,” Ernest Hemingway
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“Auslander,” Michelle Herman
A Widow for One Year, John Irving
Under the Red Flag, Ha Jin
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
All Aunt Hagar’s Children, Edward P. Jones
“I Want to Live!,” Thom Jones
Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce
all of Kafka
The Collected Novels of Yasunari Kawabata
The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis
any third word uttered by Frank Kermode
All Over, Roy Kesey
Lucy, Jamaica Kincaid
Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
Steps, Jersy Kosinski
The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem
The Collected Crime Novels of Elmore Leonard
The Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem
Desires, John L’Heureux
The Collected Novels of Bernard Malamud
Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Collected Novellas and Novels of Gabriel Garcia-Marquez
The Least You Need to Know, Lee Martin
Singular Pleasures, Harry Mathews
Time Will Darken It, William Maxwell
The Collected Novels of Cormac McCarthy
The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, Erin McGraw
A Bunch of Stuff by Larry McMurtry
The Collected Stores of Leonard Michaels
The vast canvases of James Michener
“Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven” and “Demonology,” Rick Moody
Birds of America and Like Life and Self Help, Lorrie Moore
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Open Secrets, Alice Munro
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Female Trouble, Antonya Nelson
The Assignation, Joyce Carol Oates
In the Lake of the Woods, Tim O’Brien
The Collected Works of Flannery O’Connor
Kentucky Straight, Chris Offutt
The Collected Works of Cynthia Ozick
Trilobites, Breece D’J Pancake
The Wire, by Price, Pelecanos, Simon, et. al.
The Collected Stories of Miroslav Penkov
Refresh, Refresh, Benjamin Percy
Knockemstiff, Donald Ray Pollock
Pale Horse, Pale Rider, Katherine Anne Porter
The Collected Stories of J. F. Powers
The Gold Bug Variations, Richard Powers
The Collected Novels of Richard Price
Close Range, Annie Proulx
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Serena, Ron Rash
Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
The Collected Works of Philip Roth, esp. Sabbath’s Theater, American Pastoral, Patrimony, The Counterlife, The Ghost Writer, and Everyman
Mating, Norman Rush
Straight Man, Richard Russo
all of Salinger
all of Saunders
Write Your Heart Out, Geoff Schmidt
all of Christine Schutt
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Love and Hydrogen, Jim Shepard
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Vien a ca, Beda,” Bart Skarzynski
“The Age of Grief,” Jane Smiley
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
“The Old Forest,” Peter Taylor
Blankets, Craig Thompson
The Collected Works of Adrian Tomine
all of Turgenev
A Bit on the Side, William Trevor
The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, Brady Udall
The Rabbit Tetralogy, John Updike
Shebang, Valerie Vogrin
all of Vonnegut
“Good Old Neon,” David Foster Wallace
All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
“Against Specificity,” Douglas Watson
the screeds in Ill Nature, Joy Williams
The Stories of Eudora Welty
Our Story Begins, Tobias Wolff
Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell
***please note: This list is not exhaustive.***
