9 must-read novels books like Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo

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Ratner's Star

By: Don DeLillo

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future…

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1. The Rainbow Stories

By: William T. Vollmann

3.97

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

From a writer who has won comparison with Thomas Pynchon and William S. Burroughs comes thirteen un… read more

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  • literature
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • 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

Cover of Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6) by Marcel Proust

3. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

By: Marcel Proust

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
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4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

By: James Agee , Walker Evans

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignment for "Fortune" magazine to explore the d… read more

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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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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6. 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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  • literature
  • american
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2) by Philip Roth

8. I Married a Communist (The American Trilogy, #2)

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

I Married a Communistis the story of the rise and fall of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who… read more

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  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
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9. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

10. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures

By: Mark Fisher

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that… read more

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11. Run River

By: Joan Didion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and b… read more

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  • novels
  • american
  • fiction
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12. Ratner's Star

By: Don DeLillo

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future… read more

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  • american
  • literature
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • science fiction

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. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

By: George Saunders

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Six short stories and a novella. Set in a dystopian near-future in which America has become little … read more

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15. 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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16. Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more

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17. 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
  • novels
  • fiction
  • 20th century
"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

18. Foe

By: J.M. Coetzee

4.67

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… 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. 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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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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11 must-read fiction books like Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo

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The Rainbow Stories

William T. Vollmann

3.97

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The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

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Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)

Marcel Proust

3.40

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The Pale King

David Foster Wallace , Michael Pietsch

3.98

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The Safety of Objects

A.M. Homes

3.79

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The Rainbow Stories

William T. Vollmann

3.97

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Girl with Curious Hair

David Foster Wallace

3.62

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L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

Michael Bible

3.60

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