Books like Oblivion
Eight long stories about consciousness, suffering, and the impossibility of escaping one's own mind, Wallace at his most claustrophobic and technically dazzling.
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
A story collection that threads transcripts of interviews with men about how they treat women among other experimental stories, from a boy on a high diving board to a depressed woman who cannot stop talking about her pain.
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 New York Trilogy
Three linked novellas about detectives in New York, a writer mistaken for a private eye, a man hired to watch a stranger and a critic sorting a vanished friend's manuscripts, which dissolve the line between detective and case.
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis's four collections in one book: stories that run from a single sentence to a few dozen pages, about marriage, mothers, grammar, dinner and the workings of a mind.
The Crying of Lot 49
A woman in 1960s California follows the trail of a secret postal system that may or may not exist, in a novel about communication, paranoia, and America's buried histories.
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.
Pale Fire
A deranged scholar's commentary on a 999-line poem by a dead colleague becomes a hallucinatory novel about exile, madness, and the impossibility of knowing another person.
The Sound and the Fury
Four sections, three of them narrated by the Compson brothers, one with an intellectual disability, tell the story of a Mississippi family's decline, and the fragmented telling enacts the disintegration.
The Black Book
Galip, an Istanbul lawyer, comes home to find his wife Rüya gone, and the same day her half-brother Celâl, a famous newspaper columnist, disappears too.
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.
Blackouts
A young queer man keeps vigil at the deathbed of an older one, and together they rewrite the redacted margins of a 1940s study of sexual deviance.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.