Reading List If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Whatever book club you’re in, Thomas Pynchon has you covered. Many of us consider him the best American writer since F. Scott Fitzgerald. Turns out that Pynchon’s perennially Nobel-touted shelf offers a book for each book club category featured in this year’s L.A. Times Festival of Books issue, from politics to romance. Maybe you’ve heard Pynchon’s notoriously hard-to-summarize work called “difficult.” But it’s just this supposed difficulty that should ideally qualify him for all but the most timid of book clubs. Like barn raisings or pub quizzes, Pynchon may be best tackled among friends, with each contributor volunteering their insights and interpretations to inspire the rest. So, in keeping with Ranganathan’s third law of library science — “Every book its reader” — here’s a book of Pynchon’s for every book club: Travel: Hyperventilatingly funny, emetically horrifying, aphrodisiacally romantic, “Gravity’s Rainbow” follows its antihero, Tyrone Slothrop, all over Europe in the waning days …