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The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.69 — 102,950 ratings — published 1965
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Gravity’s Rainbow Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.02 — 50,685 ratings — published 1973
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V. V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,241 ratings — published 1963
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Vineland Vineland (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,364 ratings — published 1990
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Inherent Vice Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.80 — 40,229 ratings — published 2009
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Mason & Dixon Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,282 ratings — published 1997
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Bleeding Edge Bleeding Edge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,769 ratings — published 2013
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Against the Day Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,568 ratings — published 2006
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Slow Learner Slow Learner (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.53 — 5,648 ratings — published 1984
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Shadow Ticket Shadow Ticket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.42 — 7,988 ratings — published 2025
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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,287 ratings — published 1988
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The Secret Integration The Secret Integration (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.03 — 351 ratings — published 1964
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,789 ratings — published 1966
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Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.10 — 570 ratings — published 2006
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Warlock (Legends West, #1) Warlock (Legends West, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,321 ratings — published 1958
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Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.30 — 60 ratings — published 2013
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Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.70 — 10 ratings — published 1978
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Entropy Entropy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.55 — 604 ratings — published 1960
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Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.17 — 42 ratings — published 2012
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Mortality and Mercy in Vienna Mortality and Mercy in Vienna (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.88 — 163 ratings — published 1959
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Underworld Underworld (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.96 — 35,149 ratings — published 1997
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Stoner Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.36 — 317,386 ratings — published 1965
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.14 — 251,383 ratings — published 1985
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Ficciones Ficciones (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.39 — 84,794 ratings — published 1944
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J R J R (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,021 ratings — published 1975
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Cryptonomicon Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.23 — 118,977 ratings — published 1999
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Pale Fire Pale Fire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.17 — 61,203 ratings — published 1962
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Thomas Pynchon (Writers for the 70s) Thomas Pynchon (Writers for the 70s)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.52 — 23 ratings — published 1974
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The grim phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon The grim phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 1978
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Infinite Jest Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.25 — 106,893 ratings — published 1996
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Vineland Reread (Rereadings) Vineland Reread (Rereadings)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.05 — 37 ratings — published 2021
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The Recognitions The Recognitions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,732 ratings — published 1955
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The Sot-Weed Factor The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,923 ratings — published 1960
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The Confidence-Man The Confidence-Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.62 — 3,691 ratings — published 1857
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Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.20 — 10 ratings — published 2002
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Low-Lands Low-Lands (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.59 — 111 ratings — published 1960
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The Small Rain The Small Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.26 — 91 ratings — published 1959
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Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Thomas Pynchon (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.61 — 31 ratings — published 1986
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Lost Horizon Lost Horizon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.96 — 26,297 ratings — published 1933
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Maximalist Novel, The: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 Maximalist Novel, The: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.75 — 87 ratings — published 2014
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Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1983
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Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion (Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques / New Series) Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion (Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques / New Series)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.50 — 14 ratings — published 1980
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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.07 — 112 ratings — published 2011
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Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2011
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Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.83 — 52 ratings — published 1976
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Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.81 — 26 ratings — published 1994
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Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,948 ratings — published 2011
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Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow (A Chicago Classic) Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow (A Chicago Classic)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.63 — 19 ratings — published 1987
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Thomas Pynchon
“The Telescope, the Fluxions, the invention of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for Emerson all been steps of an unarguable approach to God, a growing clarity,- Gravity, the pulse of time, the finite speed of Light present themselves to him as aspect of God's character. It's like becoming friendly with an erratic, powerful, potentially dangerous member of the Aristocracy. He holds no quarrel with the Creator's sovereignty, but is repeatedly appall'd at the lapses in Attention, the flaws in Design, the squand'rings of life and energy, the failures to be reasonable, or to exercise common sense,- first appall'd, then angry. We are taught,- we believe,- that it is love of the Creation which drives the Philosopher in his Studies. Emerson is driven, rather, by a passionate Resentment.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

Thomas Pynchon
“Roger's heart grows erect, and comes. That's really how it feels. Up sharply to skin level in a V around his centerline, washing over his nipples... it is love, it is amazing.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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