South and West by Joan Didion: Chapter epigraph: —JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, The Birds of America, 1830 / “Would that I could represent to you the dangerous nature of the ground, its oozing, spongy, and miry disposition…”
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: “It's Audubon's Birds of America, the deluxe, wonderful double- elephant folio that's almost as tall as my young self.”
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: “In the corner of her great-uncle's study, amid a tumult of books, he finds a copy of Birds of America.”