V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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1. Oblivion: Stories
By: David Foster Wallace
4.07
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more
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- literary fiction
- american
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"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
2. The Recognitions
By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis
4.20
Format: 976 pages, Paperback
The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
- literature
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- novels
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."-William H. Gass, The Recognitions
3. Suttree
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.20
Format: 471 pages, Paperback
This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more
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- classics
- american
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- contemporary
- novels
"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
4. The Tunnel
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages,
Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 199… read more
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- classics
- american
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5. The Pale King
By: David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Hardcover
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to ne… read more
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6. Underworld
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more
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- classics
- american
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7. Mao II
By: Don DeLillo
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more
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- american
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8. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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9. The Sot-Weed Factor
By: John Barth
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Considered by critics to be Barth's most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factorhas acquired… read more
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- classics
- american
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10. Agapē Agape
By: William Gaddis , Sven Birkerts , Joseph Tabbi
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped ina… read more
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11. A Frolic of His Own
By: William Gaddis
4.33
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With the publication of the "Recognitions" in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir … read more
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12. Libra
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more
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13. The Names
By: Don DeLillo
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Namesis considered the book which began t… read more
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14. JR
By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more
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15. Warlock (Legends West, #1)
By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more
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16. Been Down So Long it Looks Like Up to Me
By: Thomas Pynchon , Richard Fariña
3.93
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
Farina evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the… read more
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17. Carpenter's Gothic
By: William Gaddis
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This story of raging comedy and despair centers on the tempestuous marriage of an heiress and a Vie… read more
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18. Infinite Jest
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts' ha… read more
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19. The Broom of the System
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the Systemstunned critics and m… read more
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20. White Noise
By: Don DeLillo
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more
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- literary fiction
- classics
- american
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- contemporary
- novels
"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."-Don DeLillo, White Noise
21. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
By: Cormac McCarthy
4.16
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more
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"See the child."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
