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Best David Foster Wallace Books

Born: 21 Feb 1962, Ithaca, New York, United States

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David Foster Wallace was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and university professor of English and creative writing. Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest was cited by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. Wikipedia

10 Best Books Written by David Foster Wallace

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Infinite Jest book cover

1.Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace

1996 pub |1088 pages

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays book cover

2.Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

David Foster Wallace

2005 pub |343 pages

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments book cover

3.A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

Essays and Arguments

David Foster Wallace

1997 pub |353 pages

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life book cover

4.This Is Water

Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

David Foster Wallace

2009 pub |138 pages

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men book cover

5.Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

David Foster Wallace

1999 pub |273 pages

The Broom of the System book cover

6.The Broom of the System

David Foster Wallace

1987 pub |467 pages

The Pale King book cover

7.The Pale King

David Foster Wallace

2011 pub |548 pages

Oblivion: Stories book cover

8.Oblivion

Stories

David Foster Wallace

2004 pub |329 pages

Girl with Curious Hair book cover

9.Girl with Curious Hair

David Foster Wallace

1988 pub |373 pages

Both Flesh and Not: Essays book cover

10.Both Flesh and Not

Essays

David Foster Wallace

2012 pub |328 pages

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