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The Crying of Lot 49 The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.69 — 100,229 ratings — published 1966
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Gravity’s Rainbow Gravity’s Rainbow (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.02 — 49,449 ratings — published 1973
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V. V. (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,795 ratings — published 1963
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Inherent Vice Inherent Vice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.80 — 39,360 ratings — published 2009
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Vineland Vineland (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.74 — 19,127 ratings — published 1990
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Bleeding Edge Bleeding Edge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.63 — 14,477 ratings — published 2013
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Mason & Dixon Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,946 ratings — published 1997
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Against the Day Against the Day (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.06 — 10,387 ratings — published 2006
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Slow Learner Slow Learner (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.53 — 5,523 ratings — published 1984
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Shadow Ticket Shadow Ticket (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.45 — 6,740 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 — 1,260 ratings — published 1988
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The Secret Integration The Secret Integration (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.03 — 339 ratings — published 1964
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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 6 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.10 — 569 ratings — published 2006
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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 4 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,743 ratings — published 1966
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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 4.28 — 58 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 3.56 — 592 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 4.19 — 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 3.87 — 161 ratings — published 1959
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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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Vineland Reread (Rereadings) Vineland Reread (Rereadings)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.09 — 35 ratings — published 2021
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The Sot-Weed Factor The Sot-Weed Factor (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,817 ratings — published 1960
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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 3.58 — 105 ratings — published 1960
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The Small Rain The Small Rain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.29 — 86 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 3.69 — 29 ratings — published 1986
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The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow to Roberto Bolano's 2666 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.75 — 83 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 — 4 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 — 111 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 4.24 — 21 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 3.80 — 51 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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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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A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49 A Companion to the Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pynchon)
avg rating 3.60 — 106 ratings — published 1994
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Days Between Stations Days Between Stations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,147 ratings — published 1985
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Unter dem Siegel Unter dem Siegel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.31 — 26 ratings — published 1961
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Stone Junction Stone Junction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,125 ratings — published 1990
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Thomas Pynchon (Writers for the 70s) Thomas Pynchon (Writers for the 70s)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.52 — 23 ratings — published 1974
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Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internets Lineland: Mortality and Mercy on the Internets (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 2.10 — 10 ratings — published 1997
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Thomas Pynchon (Twayne's United States Authors Series) Thomas Pynchon (Twayne's United States Authors Series)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.38 — 16 ratings — published 1992
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,673 ratings — published 2001
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Pynchon and Mason & Dixon Pynchon and Mason & Dixon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.30 — 10 ratings — published 2000
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The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon (Volume 1) The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon (Volume 1)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.72 — 18 ratings — published 1987
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The Gnostic Pynchon The Gnostic Pynchon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 1990
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Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone Long Time Coming and a Long Time Gone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.93 — 86 ratings — published
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Under brosteinen, stranden! Under brosteinen, stranden! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 4.23 — 403 ratings — published 2024
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La storia di Mondaugen La storia di Mondaugen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pynchon)
avg rating 3.83 — 6 ratings — published
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Thomas Pynchon
“In Africa, Asia, Amerindia, Oceania, Europe came and established its order of Analysis and Death. What it could not use, it killed or altered. In time the death-colonies grew strong enough to break away. But the impulse to empire, the mission to propagate death, the structure of it, kept on. Now we are in the last phase. American Death has come to occupy Europe. It has learned empire from its old metropolis. But now we have only the structure left us, none of the great rainbow plumes, no fittings of gold, no epic marches over alkali seas. The savages of other continents, corrupted but still resisting in the name of life, have gone on despite everything... while Death and Europe are separate as ever, their love still unconsummated. Death only rules here.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon
Is no revenge of the nerds, you know what, last year when everything collapsed, all it meant was the nerds lost out once again and the jocks won. Same as always ... Some of the quants are smart, but quants come, quants go, they're just nerds for hire with a different fashion sense. The jocks may not know a stochastic crossover if it bites them on the ass, but they have that drive to thrive, they're synced in to them deep market rhythms, and that'll always beat out nerditude no matter how smart it gets.”
Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge

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