Big Books of Spring

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas LigottiBeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul SartreThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert CamusBetter Never to Have Been by David BenatarThe Trouble With Being Born by Emil M. Cioran
Books Rustin Cohle would have read!
103 books — 25 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 172 voters

In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames by David SedarisEichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah ArendtNaked by David SedarisNine Stories by J.D. Salinger
From the Pages of the New Yorker
207 books — 56 voters
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorFicciones by Jorge Luis BorgesIn Watermelon Sugar by Richard BrautiganThe Moviegoer by Walker PercyGiovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
After DFW's "Eclectic/Obscure Fictions for Writers" Syllabus
79 books — 47 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 585 voters
On the Road by Jack KerouacPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenHowl and Other Poems by Allen GinsbergOliver Twist by Charles DickensOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Jess Mariano Reading List
41 books — 53 voters

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Princess Bride by William Goldman
Metafiction
443 books — 579 voters