What to Read After The Crying of Lot 49
Readers who loved The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Crying of Lot 49 is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Crying of Lot 49
Underworld
Lost in the funhouse
At Swim-Two-Birds
V.
Inherent Vice
White Noise
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland.
Mason & Dixon.
Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday!
Against the Day
Pale Fire
Infinite Jest
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again
Invisible Cities
Consider the Lobster
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
Bleeding Edge
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The broom of the system
2666
Nine Stories
As I Lay Dying
Mao II