12 must-read fiction books like You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann

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You Bright and Risen Angels

By: William T. Vollmann

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the st…

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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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  • literary fiction
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  • 20th century
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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

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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

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3. The Lost Scrapbook

By: Evan Dara

4.30

Format: 476 pages, Paperback

It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and… read more

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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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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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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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7. The Instructions

By: Adam Levin

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Beginning with a chance encounter with the beautiful Eliza June Watermark and ending, four days and… read more

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8. 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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  • literary fiction
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9. Woodcutters

By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This controversial portrayal of Viennese artistic circles begins as the writer-narrator arrives at … read more

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10. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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11. Tree of Smoke

By: Denis Johnson

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet Ame… read more

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12. You Bright and Risen Angels

By: William T. Vollmann

4.40

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

In the jungles of South America, on the ice fields of Alaska, the plains of the Midwest, and the st… read more

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13. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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14. Solenoid

By: Mircea Cărtărescu

3.59

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

,,Vreau sa scriu o dare de seama despre anomaliile mele. In viata mea obscura, in afara oricarei is… read more

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15. 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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16. 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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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. 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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19. Mason & Dixon

By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more

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20. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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21. A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Wome… read more

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The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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The Lost Scrapbook

Evan Dara

4.30

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The Tunnel

William H. Gass

4.17

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Fat City

Leonard Gardner

4.02

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Front Lines (Front Lines, #1)

Michael Grant

4.09

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Rachel Kushner

3.94

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Dog Soldiers

Robert Stone

4.00

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