David Foster Wallace best books, ranked
David Foster Wallace — 4 titles in the rankings, first published between 1996 and 2009. They average 8.2, above the 7.8 the whole catalogue averages.
Editor’s note American novelist and essayist who died in 2008, admired for his virtuoso, funny and anxious prose about loneliness, addiction and how to live in a culture of endless entertainment. Infinite Jest, his most read, is a sprawling thousand-page novel with hundreds of endnotes set around a tennis academy and a halfway house, and it rewards the effort. This Is Water, his short commencement speech about paying attention to other people, rates just as highly and is the gentlest way in.
- Ranked titles
- 4 books
- Average score
- 8.2
- Total ratings
- 875
- First published
- 1996–2009
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Books by David Foster Wallace
Other books by David Foster Wallace
Titles we know of but do not rank — they have not gathered enough reader ratings, or our sources do not agree on where they belong.
- 1987The Broom of the System
- 1989Girl with Curious Hair
- 1990Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- 1997Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornados
- 2003Everything and More
- 2004Oblivion: Stories
- 2005Consider the Lobster
- 2011Fate, Time, and Language
- 2011The Pale King
- 2012Both Flesh and Not
- 2014String Theory
- 2018Der Spaß an der Sache
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