Books like Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece examines the glittering yet hollow glamour of the Roaring Twenties as the enigmatic Jay Gatsby pursues love, wealth, and identity across the social divide.

Nothing, in all it's entirety.

Oedipa Maas, executor of Pierce Inverarity’s will, uncovers a hidden network of conspiracies, jazz clubs, and beatnik culture while navigating her own psyche.

Infinite J Explores how entertainment shapes human life, set in an addict’s halfway house and a tennis academy, with a deeply flawed family navigating happiness in modern America.

A professor's harrowing experiences during the Industrial Revolution in post-war America, as he struggles to survive the chaos and loss around him.

A 1980 digital scan of Thomas Pynchon's 9th printing edition of *Gravity's Rainbow*.

180 p. ; 21 cm.1010L Lexile

A novel set against the backdrop of the Cold War, featuring a man trying to distance himself from his past and an artist struggling for independence, exploring themes of masculinity and societal norms.

A philosophical novel about art forgery, following Wyatt Gwyon whose obsession with 17th-century Flemish masterpieces leads him to create astonishingly authentic forgeries.

In the 31st century, Captain Lorq van Ray leads a diverse crew on a perilous interstellar quest for Illyrion, the galaxy’s most valuable energy source, as they confront a ruthless rival federation and unknown personal dangers.

Three unlikely companions—Lief, Barda, and Jasmine—venture across Deltora to recover the seven missing gems of the magic Belt, the only means to defeat the Shadow Lord.

The Conquest follows Oscar Devereaux, a black homesteader from Illinois, as he saves $2,500 and purchases land in South Dakota, striving for prosperity while confronting hardships, family expectations, and the challenges of pioneer life.

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but--dare he admit it?--strangely on target. Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction--Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation.

After a fatal plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer is haunted by grief until he discovers a lost silent‑film comedy starring Hector Mann. Obsessed with the vanished star, Zimmer’s search drives him into a dreamlike world of lies, revelations, and unexpected love.

A young adventurer finds himself on a forgotten Thai island, slowly turning into a nightmare.