Thomas Pynchon

My reading list

• November 22, 2025

  Shadow Ticket

  Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket arrives like a cipher slipped under the door of contemporary America.

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• October 29, 2022

  Entropy

  Explores the concept of disorder through a chaotic New Year's Eve party.

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• February 27, 2016

  The Crying of Lot 49

  The story of Oedipa Maas and her investigations into a world of wild conspiracies.

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• May 19, 2014

  Vineland

  An exploration of the clash between the counterculture ideals of the 1960s

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• September 16, 2013

  Bleeding Edge

  Forensic accountant Maxine Tarnow metaphorically reviews the books of post-9/11

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• April 30, 2013

  Mason & Dixon

  Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon turns the historical survey of America’s most famous border into a sprawling, 18th-century epic packed with talking dogs, Enlightenment science, and the tender camaraderie of two men drawing a line across a wild continent.

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• November 3, 2012

  V.

  A dizzying and complex novel with two interwoven narratives that take us

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• October 15, 2009

  Inherent Vice

  A pothead detective manages somehow to solve the crime.

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