/lit/ - Literature

I’ve only read Gravity’s Rainbow from your picture, and I would recommend you read most of his other books prior to that one, but here are some great American classics that I love:

Huckleberry Finn by Twain
Cannery Row by Steinbeck
V. by Pynchon
A Confederacy of Dunces by Toole
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey
The Book of the New Sun by Wolfe
Catch-22 by Heller
White Noise by Delillo
Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut
Dandelion Wine by Bradbury
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

I think any of these are decent places to start.

If on a winter's night a traveler
Carver
Nietzche
Slapping/choking a woman