David Foster Wallace's Influences

1.
Gravity’s Rainbow
Gravity’s Rainbow 4.01 avg rating — 46,902 ratings
2.
The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 3.69 avg rating — 93,758 ratings
3.
The Castle
The Castle 3.92 avg rating — 72,002 ratings
4.
The Recognitions
The Recognitions 4.20 avg rating — 6,166 ratings
5.
The Screwtape Letters
The Screwtape Letters 4.27 avg rating — 499,778 ratings
6.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov 4.38 avg rating — 369,605 ratings
7.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,684 ratings
8.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.33 avg rating — 28,037 ratings
8.
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Wittgenstein’s Mistress 3.92 avg rating — 7,090 ratings
10.
Amerika
Amerika 3.74 avg rating — 33,128 ratings
11.
The Trial
The Trial 3.94 avg rating — 377,407 ratings
11.
Dubliners
Dubliners 3.84 avg rating — 170,164 ratings
13.
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground 4.17 avg rating — 209,319 ratings
14.
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,852 ratings
15.
The Idiot
The Idiot 4.21 avg rating — 207,685 ratings
16.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,881 ratings
17.
Bloodshed and Three Novellas
Bloodshed and Three Novellas 3.78 avg rating — 68 ratings
18.
The Rainbow Stories
The Rainbow Stories 3.98 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
19.
The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems
The Incognito Lounge: And Other Poems 4.28 avg rating — 587 ratings
20.
Gain
Gain 3.76 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
21.
Arrogance
Arrogance 3.61 avg rating — 127 ratings
22.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline 4.21 avg rating — 22,042 ratings
23.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Slouching Towards Bethlehem 4.19 avg rating — 78,769 ratings
24.
For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies
For Keeps: 30 Years at the Movies 4.47 avg rating — 430 ratings
25.
Stop-Time
Stop-Time 3.93 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
26.
This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life 3.97 avg rating — 30,192 ratings
27.
A Mathematician's Apology
A Mathematician's Apology 3.92 avg rating — 7,546 ratings
28.
Menexenus
Menexenus
by: Plato
3.20 avg rating — 544 ratings
29.
John Donne's Poetry
John Donne's Poetry 4.11 avg rating — 8,388 ratings
30.
The English Poems Of Richard Crashaw
The English Poems Of Richard Crashaw 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings
31.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.25 avg rating — 24,227 ratings
32.
Essays and Aphorisms
Essays and Aphorisms 4.17 avg rating — 8,829 ratings
33.
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy 3.77 avg rating — 35,924 ratings
34.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics 3.94 avg rating — 9,878 ratings
35.
The Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12,770 ratings
36.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 4.10 avg rating — 21,777 ratings
37.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 161,013 ratings
38.
In Our Time
In Our Time 3.74 avg rating — 26,662 ratings
39.
The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 40,393 ratings
40.
Possession
Possession 3.90 avg rating — 83,129 ratings
41.
Levitation: Five Fictions
Levitation: Five Fictions 3.94 avg rating — 123 ratings
42.
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories 4.18 avg rating — 6,084 ratings
43.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love 4.02 avg rating — 74,812 ratings
44.
East of Eden
East of Eden 4.43 avg rating — 602,390 ratings
45.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,752,323 ratings
46.
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Moby-Dick or, The Whale 3.56 avg rating — 602,853 ratings
47.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,732,280 ratings
48.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.21 avg rating — 8,948 ratings
49.
The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris 4.18 avg rating — 14,611 ratings
50.
Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
51.
The Corrections
The Corrections 3.84 avg rating — 194,268 ratings
52.
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World 3.57 avg rating — 1,680 ratings
53.
Middlesex
Middlesex 4.04 avg rating — 657,136 ratings
54.
The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm 3.65 avg rating — 6,085 ratings
55.
The Kiss
The Kiss 3.57 avg rating — 6,497 ratings
56.
The Devil's Tour
The Devil's Tour
by: Mary Karr
3.96 avg rating — 273 ratings
57.
How to Leave a Country
How to Leave a Country 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
58.
The Jade Cabinet
The Jade Cabinet 4.07 avg rating — 291 ratings
59.
Ava
Ava 4.19 avg rating — 778 ratings
60.
Libra
Libra 4.05 avg rating — 19,596 ratings
61.
Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,410 ratings
62.
War and Peace
War and Peace 4.17 avg rating — 357,025 ratings
63.
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov 4.30 avg rating — 7,578 ratings
64.
Pale Fire
Pale Fire 4.17 avg rating — 55,901 ratings
65.
The Centaur
The Centaur 3.70 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
66.
Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages
Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages 3.51 avg rating — 685 ratings
67.
Hopscotch
Hopscotch 4.20 avg rating — 47,323 ratings
68.
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist 3.69 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
69.
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays 4.22 avg rating — 63,615 ratings
70.
Dissemination
Dissemination 4.09 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
71.
Practically Painless English
Practically Painless English 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings
72.
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size 4.31 avg rating — 1,125 ratings
73.
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property 3.91 avg rating — 3,109 ratings