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Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 remains my favorite. Here are more!

• 300 Arguments — Sarah Manguso
• Actual Air — David Berman
• Altered States — Paddy Chayefsky
• A Scanner Darkly — Philip K. Dick
• A Simple Plan — Scott Smith
• Contact — Carl Sagan
• Crave — Sarah Kane
• Dream Story — Albert Schweitzer
• Failure To Thrive — Meghan Lamb
• Franny & Zooey — J.D Salinger
• Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
• House of Psychotic Women — Kier-la Janisse
• I Remain in Darkness — Annie Ernaux
• I Remember — Joe Brainard
• I Was A Child — Bruce Eric Kaplan
• Livability — Jon Raymond
• Master of Space and Time — Rudy Rucker
• Mysterious Skin — Scott Heim
• Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro
• On Grief and Reason — Joseph Brodsky
• On Writing — Stephen King
• Pet Sematary — Stephen King
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek — Annie Dillard
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking — Susan Cain
• Run Towards The Danger — Sarah Polley
• Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life — Abigail Thomas
• Several Short Sentences About Writing — Verlyn Klinkenborg
• Slaughterhouse Five — Kurt Vonnegut
• Sombrero Fallout — Richard Brautigan
• Speak, Memory — Vladimir Nabokov
• Steal Like An Artist — Austin Kleon
• Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse — Brontez Purnell
• Tenth of December — George Saunders
• The Chocolate War — Robert Cormier
• The Empathy Exams — Leslie Jamison
• The Loneliness Files: a Memoir in Essays — Athena Dixon
• The Natural Hustle — eva h.d.
• The Price of Salt — Patricia Highsmith
• The Sunset Limited — Cormac McCarthy
• The White Album — Joan Didion
• Things The Grandchildren Should Know — Mark Oliver Everett
• Tropic of Cancer — Henry Miller
• Ubik — Philip K. Dick
• White Noise — Don DeLilo
• Who I Always Was: A Memoir — Theresa Okokon
• Why I Wake Early — Mary Oliver
• Why Did I Ever — Mary Robison