Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner newly arrived on Long Island, is drawn into the orbit of his mysterious millionaire neighbor Jay Gatsby, whose lavish parties are meant to win back the woman he has loved for years. A portrait of Jazz Age wealth, illusion and the corrosion of the American dream.
Books mentioned in The Great Gatsby (4)
Simon Called Peter by Robert Keable: “Several old copies of "Town Tattle" lay on the table together with a copy of "Simon Called Peter"”
Stoddard Lectures by John L. Stoddard: “returned with Volume One of the "Stoddard Lectures."”
Economics by Henry Clay: “Gatsby looked with vacant eyes through a copy of Clay's "Economics,"”
Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford: “pulled from his pocket a ragged old copy of a book called "Hopalong Cassidy."”
Books that mention The Great Gatsby (21)
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl: “Sixty Minutes of an Impressive Novel (selections included The Great Gatsby [Fitzgerald, 1925] and The Sound and the Fury [Faulkner, 1929])”
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger: “I was crazy about The Great Gatsby. Old Gatsby. Old sport.”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “When I could no longer concentrate on Greek ... I read The Great Gatsby.”
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami: “In Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, one of the characters, Tom Buchanan... says, 'I've heard of making a garage out of a stable, but I'm the first man who ever made a stable out of a garage.'”
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami: “I wanted to tell people what a wonderful novel it was, but no one around me had read The Great Gatsby or was likely to.”
The White Album by Joan Didion: “'Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners,' as Nick Carraway said, 'and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life.'”
The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin: “The Great Gatsby is unquestionably dazzling, but that novel occasionally seems overgroomed to me, like a garden topiary.”
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff: “So if I want to write a book and call it The Great Gatsby, I can.”
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green: “An entire essay reviews the novel's history and revival via the Armed Services Edition, e.g. "Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the narrator is sprawled out on a beach at night..."”
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: “I gave Sam To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Walden, and The Fountainhead.”
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway: “If he could write a book as fine as The Great Gatsby I was sure that he could write an even”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “In his English class he reads Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Red Badge of Courage.”
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby begins with Nick Carraway's father telling him: "Just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had,"”
Books: A Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “For big-ticket books such as The Maltese Falcon, The Great Gatsby, or The Sound and the Fury”
Secret Son by Laila Lalami: “He took his copy of The Great Gatsby out of his briefcase and, in an accent that... sounded perfectly American, asked, 'I assume you've all read the book'”
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk: “You'll all have to promise to wear white, as in The Great Gatsby. Have you seen it yet?”
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver: “He might have written Gatsby in the very room where I'm sleeping tonight.”
Coventry by Rachel Cusk: “Scott Fitzgerald, for instance, virtually described his own funeral in The Great Gatsby”
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee: ““Daisy Buchanan,” he said, referring to the coldhearted girl from The Great Gatsby.”