| Debut Novel (Year) | Author |
| Grimus (1975) | |
| The Hunt for Red October (1984) | |
| The Joke (1967) | |
| The Naked and the Dead (1948) | |
| Less Than Zero (1985) | |
| Madame Bovary (1856-7) | |
| Player Piano (1952) | |
| V. (1963) | |
| The Stranger (1942) | |
| This Side of Paradise (1920) | |
| You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) | |
| Vernon God Little (2003) | |
| Everything is Illuminated (2002) | |
| | Debut Novel (Year) | Author |
| Fight Club (1996) | |
| Buddenbrooks (1901) | |
| Carrie (1974) | |
| Catch-22 (1961) | |
| The Man Within (1929) | |
| Revolutionary Road (1961) | |
| Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948) | |
| The Orchard Keeper (1965) | |
| The Outsiders (1967) | |
| The Natural (1952) | |
| Dangling Man (1944) | |
| In Evil Hour (1962) | |
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