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Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre


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Money To Burn by Ricardo Piglia


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One, No One and One Hundred Thousand by Luigi Pirandello

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The author is mentioned in To Each His Own by Leonardo Sciascia


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The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
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A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
London Orbital by Sinclair


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The Trusting and the Maimed by James Plunkett


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Books by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
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The Passion of New Eve
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Pit and the Pendulum
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The Purloined Letter
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A Void by Perec
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein


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Here’s to You Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska


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A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
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Flaubert's parrot by Barnes
The Marriage Plot


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Typical by Padgett Powell


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The Shipping News by E. Annie Prouix
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An Unnecessary Woman by Alamaddine


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Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
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Labyrinth of Solitude by Paz
The Sense of an Ending by Barnes
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery (One of the main character's compares another character to M. Legrandin)
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson (protagonist is reading Swann's Way in bomb shelter) -- NOT 1001 book
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
An Unnecessary Woman by Alamaddine
Mother's Milk by St Aubyn
The Romantics
Life after Life by Atkinson
A Suitable Boy by Seth
A Little Life by Yanagihara
Pale Fire by Nabakov
A Dance to the Music of Time by Powell


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Pharoah by Boleslaw Prus


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Books by Manuel Puig

Heartbreak Tango
Kiss of the Spider Woman


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Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
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Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald. Book mentions author and refers to an event in the book.
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
War and Peace - Tolstoy
The GoldFinch by Donna Tartt


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The Godfather by Mario Puzo


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Books by Barbara Pym
Excellent Women
Quartet in Autumn


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Books by Thomas Pynchon
V.
Marriage PLot

The Crying of Lot 49
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The Marriage Plot by Eugenides

Gravity’s Rainbow
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American Gods by Gaiman

Vineland

Mason & Dixon

Against the Day


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1001shelf wrote: "The Guide by R.K. Narayan"

In House of Leaves (Danielewski, p. 41), chapter V opens with a quote from The Guide: "Raju welcomed the intrusion - something to relieve from the loneliness of the place."


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1001shelf wrote: "Books by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
Mentioned in:
The Passion of New Eve
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Pit and the Pendulum
Mentioned in:

The Purloined Letter
Mentione..."


In House of Leaves (Danielewski, p. 131), The Fall of the House of Usher is mentioned in a list of literary hauntings.


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1001shelf wrote: "Books by Thomas Pynchon
V.
Marriage PLot

The Crying of Lot 49
Mentioned in:
The Marriage Plot by Eugenides

Gravity’s Rainbow
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American Gods by Gaiman

Vineland

Mason & Dixon

Agains..."


In House of Leaves (Danielewski, p. 132), the gator patrol in V is mentioned in a list of literary hauntings.


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1001shelf wrote: "Books by Edgar Allan Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher
Mentioned in:
The Passion of New Eve
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

The Pit and the Pendulum
Mentioned in:

The Purloined Letter
Mentione..."


In The Last September (Bowen, p. 124), when Lois entered the mill, she expected cracks on the walls to widen, "to see the walls peel back from a cleft - like the House of Usher's."


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1001shelf wrote: "Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust
Mentioned in:
Labyrinth of Solitude by Paz
The Sense of an Ending by Barnes
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Barbery (One of the main character's compares..."


In There but for the (Smith, p. 353), Brooke's father threatens his wife to tell all her students and colleagues that she prefers Schwarzenegger and Pacino as examples of turn-of-the-century manhood to Proust's Swann.


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