9 best-selling classics books like Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

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Omensetter's Luck

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre…

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1. The Lime Twig

By: Leslie A. Fiedler , John Hawkes

3.83

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An English horse race, the Golden Bowl at Aldington, provides the background for John Hawkes' excit… read more

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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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"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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3. Omensetter's Luck

By: William H. Gass

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Greeted as a masterpiece when it was first published in 1966, Omensetter's Luckis the quirky, impre… read more

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  • classics
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4. 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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5. Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Jesus' Son, the first collection of stories by Denis Johnson, presents a unique, hallucinatory visi… read more

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Cover of The Melancholy of Resistance by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

6. The Melancholy of Resistance

By: George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of… read more

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7. V.

By: Thomas Pynchon , Carlos Martín Ramírez

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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Cover of Agapē Agape by William Gaddis, Sven Birkerts, Joseph Tabbi

8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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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. 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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13. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

14. 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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15. 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

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. 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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18. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)

By: Samuel Beckett

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilirating midcentury trilogy intoduces us to Mol… read more

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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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)

11 Top fiction books like Omensetter's Luck by William H. Gass

Transform Your Habits

The Lime Twig

Leslie A. Fiedler , John Hawkes

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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13 Best fiction books like The Melancholy of Resistance by George Szirtes, László Krasznahorkai

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Omensetter's Luck

William H. Gass

4.17

Transform Your Habits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Melancholy of Resistance

George Szirtes , László Krasznahorkai

2.50

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