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 …
Want to Read $ 8.99"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
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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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- american
- the united states of america
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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. 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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"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
3. 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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- american
- the united states of america
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- 20th century
- novels
"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
4. Naked Lunch
By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz
3.46
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more
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- american
- literature
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- contemporary
- 20th century
- novels
"Exterminate all rational thought"-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
5. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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- literature
- novels
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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
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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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8. 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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9. Absalom, Absalom!
By: William Faulkner
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more
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10. The Sound and the Fury
By: William Faulkner
3.86
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
The tragedy of the Compson family features some of the most memorable characters in literature: bea… read more
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"I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"Caddy put her arms around me, and her shining veil, and I couldn't smell trees anymore and I began to cry."-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"-William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
11. 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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12. Ulysses
By: James Joyce
3.75
Format: 925 pages, Paperback
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the A… read more
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"Shite and onions!"-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Let my country die for me."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"Be just before you are generous."-James Joyce, Ulysses
"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"-James Joyce, Ulysses
13. As I Lay Dying
By: William Faulkner
3.72
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississip… read more
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- classics
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- fiction
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"vomiting the crying"-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"But peace is my heart: I know it is."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
"sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt."-William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane
3.64
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more
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- classics
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- 20th century
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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
15. 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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16. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
By: David Foster Wallace
4.31
Format: 66 pages, Paperback
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the bounda… read more
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17. 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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18. Lost in the Funhouse
By: John Barth
4.27
Format: 197 pages,
Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fict… read more
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19. Dubliners
By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson
3.44
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… 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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"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 half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."-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
