If that doesn't pan out, try LibraryThing's Name that Book group, where by including some very basic information (fiction, nonfiction, the plot, when you read the book), you'll be given some leads.
A basic non-fiction collection is a good way to start.
These are basic tenets of fiction, which Guterson knows all too well.
In Ulysses Joyce reconstructs the basic forms of fiction and creates a new kind of novel in which he can attend to myth, history, naturalistic detail, epic, epiphany, and love in a frequently bewildering range of styles.
The novel that most challenges the basic conventions of fiction is Marina Warner's The Leto Bundle, which is sometimes hard to assemble in the mind but has long stretches of sheer narrative bliss.
Even the personal essays included here, like the long, mostly engaging piece on Boyd's boarding school experience, make extensive (and somewhat deadening) use of the passive voice: "Drugs were taken," "The female sex was judged by one criterion," etc. Temperament aside, however, Boyd's approach also reflects his most basic ideas about fiction and art.
In Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides deliberately violates one of the basic conventions of narrative fiction.
Trying to achieve this, Oates agreed, was the basic excitement of writing fiction.
The ambition of the 1920s Prague School of literary criticism was to identify the basic patterns of narrative fiction.
The seven pieces in sum offer the most spirited and knowledgeable discussion of fiction's basic questions that I have read for some time.
