Thomas Pynchon

• Oct-2025
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A New York Times Bestseller • A New York Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times, Vulture, TIME, The Guardian, The New Republic, and LitHubThe new novel from Thomas Pyncho...

• Sep-2013
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It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the E...

• Aug-2009
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Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon -- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog It's been awhile since Doc Spo...

• Aug-2009
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"The funniest book Pynchon has written." -- Rolling Stones"Entertainment of a high order." -- TIME"Terrific pastiche of California noir, wonderfully amusing." -- Washington PostPart noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon -- private eye Do...

• Dec-2006
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A New York Times Bestseller • A Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book"[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel." -- The New York Times Book Review"Audacious, bodacious, entropic, synoptic, elect...

• Apr-1997
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"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - ...

• Feb-1995
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"An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." -- New Republic"Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." -- The New York TimesCompiling five...

• Feb-1991
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The inspiration for One Battle After Another "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservatice, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human . . . [Pynchon's] voice - abso...

• 1982
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• Jan-1978
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"Low-Lands", written while the Pynchon was an undergraduate at Cornell University and first published in "New World Writing" 16 (1960), is an explicit parody of T S Eliot's "The Waste Land". But further, "Low-Lands" evinces another influence: the wri...

• Jun-1976
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"This work may well stand as one of the very best works of the century." -- Atlantic Review"[A] brilliant and turbulent first novel." -- George Plimpton, New York Times Book ReviewThe wild, macabre tale of the twentieth centuray and of two men - on...

• 1974
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Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." -- The New Republic"A screaming comes across the sky. . ." A few months after the Germans' secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on L...

• 1965
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One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years"The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes." -- The New York Times"The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce's Ulysses...