14) Augie March (not the band)

"and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles."

So starts Bellow's 1953 novel. Augie March, an everyman, blown about by fate, change and the modern "American city".