8 Best american books like Falling Man by Don DeLillo

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Falling Man

By: Don DeLillo , None

3.16

Format: 315 pages,

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a ma…

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1. 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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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
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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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2. Girl with Curious Hair

By: David Foster Wallace

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Khirbet Khizeh

By: S. Yizhar

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Fiction. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange and Yaacob Dweck. Afterword by David Shulm… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. 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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  • literature
  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
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6. 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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  • literary fiction
  • american
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7. Netherland

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.71

Format: 160 pages,

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
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8. Falling Man

By: Don DeLillo , None

3.16

Format: 315 pages,

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a ma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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9. Angels

By: Denis Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

'Adazzling and savage first novel' New York Times Angelstells the story of two born losers. Jamie h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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10. The Wasted Vigil

By: Nadeem Aslam

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel--at once lyrical and blistering--about war … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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  • novels

11. 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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12. Trauma

By: Patrick McGrath

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Charlie Weir is a man who tackles other people's demons for a living. He has seen every kind of tra… read more

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13. 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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14. The Counterlife

By: Philip Roth

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The Counterlifeis about people enacting their dreams of renewal and escape, some of them going so f… read more

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15. 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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16. Operation Shylock: A Confession

By: Philip Roth

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

What if a lookalike stranger stole your name, usurped your biography, and went about the world pret… read more

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17. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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18. Missitalia

By: Claudia Durastanti

3.73

Format: 354 pages, ebook

Amalia Spada è un’avventuriera lontana dai tumulti che agitano la nazione che sta per nascere; una … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Locus desperatus

By: Michele Mari

3.29

Format: 136 pages, ebook

A tutti, prima o poi, è toccato separarsi da qualcosa che reputavamo soltanto ma senza ciò che ci … read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more

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  • literature
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

15 Best fiction books like Falling Man by Don DeLillo

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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David Foster Wallace

3.62

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S. Yizhar

4.82

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Don DeLillo

4.31

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Tom McCarthy

4.23

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Teju Cole

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Joseph O'Neill

3.71

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