Books like Gravity's Rainbow
A massive, hallucinatory novel tracking a V-2 rocket across wartime Europe, connecting paranoia, entropy, Pavlovian conditioning, and the death drive of Western civilisation.
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V.
A drifter named Benny Profane falls in with a bohemian crowd in 1950s New York while Herbert Stencil hunts across decades of colonial history for a woman, or an idea, known only as V.
Against the Day
A sprawling historical novel spanning from the Colorado mining wars to the Tunguska explosion, where anarchists, balloonists, and time travellers chase light and vengeance across the planet.
Dog Years
The friendship of Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel, two boys from a village near Danzig, from the 1920s through the Nazi years and after, told by three narrators and shadowed by a line of black dogs.
Infinite Jest
In a near-future North America where years are sold to corporate sponsors, an elite tennis academy and the halfway house down the hill orbit a film so entertaining it kills anyone who watches it.
Underworld
A panoramic Cold War novel that begins with a lost baseball and Bobby Thomson's home run and spirals through decades of American paranoia, waste, and longing.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
A young man is sent across a country where a mad scientist's machines make desires manifest and dismantle reality.
Cryptonomicon
Two timelines converge: World War II codebreakers, among them a mathematician and a Marine, and a 1990s generation of hackers building a data haven in Southeast Asia, around a buried hoard of gold and the birth of the information age.
The Broom of the System
A Cleveland switchboard operator searches for her great-grandmother, who has vanished from a nursing home with several other residents, while her boss courts her and her cockatiel starts preaching.
The Twenty-Seventh City
St. Louis's new police chief, a former Bombay officer, quietly takes over the city through a conspiracy of influence, blackmail and real estate, and only one civic leader resists.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
Catch-22
Yossarian, a World War II bombardier, wants to stop flying missions, but the only way out is to be declared crazy, and asking to be grounded proves he is sane.
Glamorama
A male model is drawn into a terrorist conspiracy by a mysterious figure, careening through fashion weeks and assassination plots in a satire of celebrity and surveillance.