41.   A first novel presents the story of the inventor of the harness, who lives in a town lost in time that abuts modern civilization.

42.   A first novel set in China, where interpreter Alice Mannegan searches for love and the long-lost missing bones of Peking man.

43.   A first novel about a paramedic who is driven to despair by the devastation he witnesses.

44.   A first novel by Arne Tangherlini, it is a book that, by all accounts, never should have seen the light of day.

45.   A first novel is planned, and a pretty young woman is pursued.

46.   A first novel set in a small Irish parish on the coast of Newfoundland.

47.   A fiercely beautiful first novel about oil, men, and western Montana.

48.   A funny, moving, elaborate first novel in which a common dream becomes the medium of a peculiarly moral confrontation with fear and trembling.

49.   A first novel introduces us to the lovable people of a town in South Georgia.

50.   A lifelong New Hampshirite from a poor Franco-American family, Metalious declared war on Yankee New England with her first novel.