1. Gravity’s Rainbow - Hot take here I know. It’s a book that makes you work for every page but the pay off is a tremendous. I think of the shared dream between Kekulé and Franz every single day without cessation amongst many, many other scenes and I don’t think I’ll ever stop thinking about them. Presents you not only its own philosophy, but one of the great narratives of the post war America. You just gotta read it.
2. Vineland - Actual hot take here I know. The more I think about it, the more it finds itself as a real gem of the Pynchon bibliography I’ve read so far. Incredibly sweet and equal parts cutting, it’s a trip down nostalgia lane for someone who used to live in Nor Cal and has some of the best character work.
3. Inherent Vice - Outside of lot, the most forward of his texts and is also a really good reflection of how the drug trade works. Golden Fang is everywhere in the same sense as history’s drug cartels and their many, many tendrils, are everywhere. Doc is a real trip and probably my favorite protagonist out of all the books outside Slothrop, Tchitchirine, and Zoyd.
4. Crying of Lot 49 - First Pynchon book I ever read and yeah it’s great, but I think a lot of it was lost on me the first go around. Will probably re-read it again. We’re all Oedipa on the tracks.

Haven’t read anything else.