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…
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1. 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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"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
2. The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.69
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more
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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
3. At Swim-Two-Birds
By: Flann O'Brien , William H. Gass
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
A wildly comic send-up of Irish literature and culture, At Swim-Two-Birdsis the story of a young, l… read more
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- literature
- humor
- fiction
- novels
4. Wittgenstein's Mistress
By: David Foster Wallace , Steven Moore , David Markson
3.32
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever writte… read more
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- literature
- novels
- american
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5. In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories
By: William H. Gass
4.07
Format: 242 pages,
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6. V.
By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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7. Satantango
By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Hardcover
Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is… read more
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"They’re waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them. They are waiting, belly to the ground, like cats at pig-killing time, hoping for …"-George Szirtes, Satantango
"Irimiás: God is not made manifest in language, you dope. He's not manifest in anything. He doesn't exist... God was a mistake. I've long understood there is zero difference between me and a bug, or a…"-George Szirtes, Satantango
8. 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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- historical fiction
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9. 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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10. The Obscene Bird of Night
By: José Donoso , Hardie St. Martin , Leonard Mades
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This haunting jungle of a novel has been hailed as "a masterpiece" by Luis Bunuel and "one of the g… read more
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11. 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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12. Against the Day
By: Thomas Pynchon
3.87
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, … read more
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13. 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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14. Molloy
By: Samuel Beckett , Patrick Bowles
4.04
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Molloy, the first of the three masterpieces which constitute Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy, appea… read more
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"This should all be rewritten in the pluperfect."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"You can't have everything, I've often noticed it."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Constipation is a sign of good health in pomeranians."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
"Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto."-Samuel Beckett, Molloy
15. Extinction
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Thomas Bernhard is one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in the German language. Extinction… read more
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16. 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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17. Europe Central
By: William T. Vollmann
4.22
Format: None pages,
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritari… read more
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18. Under the Volcano
By: Malcolm Lowry
3.77
Format: 423 pages, Paperback
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise… read more
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- literature
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- historical fiction
- novels
"Even almost bad poetry is better than life"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May."-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
"The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?"-Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano
19. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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20. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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21. Vineland
By: Thomas Pynchon
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
A group of Americans in Northern California in 1984 are struggling with the consequences of their l… read more
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